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unusual facts about Dan Andersson


Dan Andersson

In 2005, Sofia Karlsson recorded a new interpretation of Andersson's songs, which received a Grammy award in both Sweden and Denmark, but before then his poems had been sung by a number of artists, including the Hootenanny Singers, Love Explosion and Fred Åkerström.


Hootenanny Singers

In 1964 they debuted on the Swedish TV-show Hylands hörna with locally famous Swedish poet Dan Andersson's Jag väntar vid min mila (translated as "I'm Waiting at the Charcoal Kiln").

Stefan Sundström

Sundström's music often refers to other important Swedish musicians like Evert Taube, Dan Andersson, Bellman, Alice Tegnér, Astrid Lindgren, Ulf Dageby and Cornelis Vreeswijk.


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