Genres Folk music Occupation(s) Singer, actor Name Sven-Bertil Taube | Instruments Singing, guitar Role Singer Years active 1954–present Parents Evert Taube, Astri Taube | |
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Born 24 November 1934 (age 89) ( 1934-11-24 ) Children Sascha Zacharias, Jesper Taube, Felix Taube, Ann-Charlotte Taube Movies The Girl with the Dragon T, Puppet on a Chain, The Eagle Has Landed, Jerusalem, Arn – The Knight Templar | ||
Sven bertil taube pepita dansar tamborito i panama
Sven-Bertil Gunnar Evert Taube (born 24 November 1934) is a Swedish singer and actor. Born in Stockholm, he is the son of songwriter Evert Taube and sculptor Astri Taube.
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- Sven bertil taube pepita dansar tamborito i panama
- Sinclairsvisan La Folia as sung by Sven Bertil Taube vinyl
- Biography
- Musical career
- Selected discography
- Acting career
- Awards
- Theatre
- Filmography
- References
Sinclairsvisan (La Folia) as sung by Sven Bertil Taube (vinyl)
Biography
At age 14, Taube began playing guitar. While traveling throughout Europe, he developed an interest in folklore and folk music. He performed in concerts and on Swedish and Norwegian radio while a student at the Royal Beskow School in Stockholm.
Taube graduated in 1954 from the Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Connecticut. While he was a student at the school, Folkways Records invited him to record an album of Swedish folk songs.
Taube has been married four times, and has four children, born in 1960, 1965, 1979, and 1994. He belongs to an untitled branch of the Baltic German noble Taube family, introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility in 1668 as noble family No. 734.
Musical career
Taube released his first album in 1954; it included a cover of one of his father's songs. He has since released many albums which include songs written by his father. Several of his most well-known versions of Evert Taube songs come from albums recorded in the 1970s, but he recorded more of them at later stages, including his 2007 album Alderville Road. Referring to that album, reviewer Peter Dahlgren said, "Evert had the yarns and Sven-Bertil had the voice." He has also recorded songs from Fredman's Epistles and Fredman's Songs by the popular Swedish 18th-century songwriter Carl Michael Bellman, and the poet Nils Ferlin (1898–1961), whose poems were mostly put to music by Lille Bror Söderlundh. Taube also recorded an album with songs by the Swedish songwriter and musician Ulf Peder Olrog, one with Swedish translations of songs by French songwriter Léo Ferré, and one with Swedish translations of songs by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.
Selected discography
Acting career
Taube also started an acting career that took him to London, where he performed in theater and musicals, notably as Prince Albert in I and Albert. He won a role on the television series Upstairs, Downstairs. In the 1970s, Taube tried to find work as a film actor, and had some minor roles, most notably in the 1976 World War II drama The Eagle Has Landed and a starring role as a US agent in the 1971 film version of Alistair MacLean's novel Puppet on a Chain.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Taube starred in a number of Swedish films and television series, while keeping his music career alive.
Taube starred in the Swedish film version of Stieg Larsson's novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in the role of Henrick Vanger. The film was released in early 2010. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Guldbagge Award for his role in the film.