Mikael Wiehe

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Mikael Wiehe 2012.
Mikael Wiehe at the Young Left Congress 2003.

Mikael Christian Wiehe (born April 10, 1946 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish musician , singer , songwriter , translator and composer . With performances and recordings (since 1971) he still influences the Swedish music scene today. In addition to a number of other prizes, he was the first artist to receive the Swedish Martin Luther King Prize for Hope and Reconciliation.

Life

Mikael Wiehe grew up in Copenhagen and Malmö , his father was Danish, his mother Swedish. As a child he took piano lessons, but as a musician on guitar and saxophone he is self-taught . In 1963 he played for the first time in the band Cooling's Traditional Jazzmen . Together with his brother Thomas Wiehe and childhood friend Göran Skytte, he formed the jazz orchestra Bluncks Lucky Seven in 1964 , which was replaced in 1967 by the Beatles-inspired band Moccers . After that, a lot of different orchestral and band compositions with names like followed Spridda Skurar , Hoola Bandoola band , Kabaréorkestern and Wiehe & Co . He addresses his marriage in the song Tango and on the CD Sånger från en inställd skilsmässa (German: songs from a blown divorce, 2009).

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The range of Wiehe's own songs spans a repertoire from love songs to ballads to political songs. He has also performed works by other artists, often translating their texts into Swedish. Wiehe released records with songs by Bob Dylan three times : 1982 Dom ensligas allé ( Eng .: Allee des Einsamen, after the Dylan title Desolation Row ), 2006 Totta & Wiehe - Dylan (with singer and guitarist Totta Näslund) and 2007 Dylan på svenska (German: Dylan in Swedish; with the singer and actress Ebba Forsberg). From Wiehe songs translated Leonard Cohen Forsberg has titled Ta min vals (dt .: Take my waltz in the original: Take This Waltz) published. Mikael Wiehe translated tangos by Carlos Gardel for actor and singer Rikard Wolff .

Wiehe also saw his art as a political mission. For example, in 1979 he agreed to take part in the Gränslöst festival - Mot fascism och invandrarhets (German: Limitless - Against fascism and hatred of foreigners). In 1985, he said he took the initiative for a concert in support of the African National Congress . In 2001 he played a key role in the establishment of the Hela Sverige - Artister mot nazister (German: Foundation for all of Sweden - Artists against Nazis). In 2002 he got involved with a Swedish citizen who was abducted from the United States to Guantanamo and held there for years without charge.

Criticism of the Cuban engagement

In 2007 Wiehe performed in Malmö at a solidarity concert for Cuba . In connection with this, he had stated in the local newspaper, Sydsvenskan Dagbladet , that Cuba was the country in Central America that had best defended human rights over the past forty years. In addition, the worst human rights crimes on the island of Cuba were committed at the US military base at Guantanamo . This led to a lively public discussion and also criticism, not least because Wiehe classified the Cuban revolution as "a desirable matter of course" . Thereupon the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter with the highest circulation invited him to a guest article. In it Wiehe pointed out that he very well condemn deficiencies such as lack of freedom of speech, political prisoners and poverty. At the same time, however, he demanded that the country's progress be recognized, for example in literacy and education or the very good medical care that had led to the highest life expectancy of all Latin American countries. For many people in even poorer countries, this relative prosperity in Cuba is quite attractive, while they distrust a democratization propagated by the USA, also bearing in mind the US support for injustice and torture regimes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Equmeniakyrkan (ecumenical church) Martin Luther King Priset, Tidigare Pristagare (German: former winners) . Accessed February 25, 2020
  2. ↑ Mikael Wiehe, Skivtitlar website (German: song directory) . Accessed February 25, 2020
  3. ↑ Stockholms stadsbibiotek, media directory Tango: Rikard Wolff sjunger Carlos Gardel i svenska tolkningar av Mikael Wiehe . Accessed February 25, 2020
  4. ↑ Mikael Wiehe, website År för år (German: year after year) . Accessed February 25, 2020
  5. ↑ Web archive, January 24, 2008 Stiftelsen hela Sverige - Artister mot Nazister / . Accessed February 25, 2020
  6. ↑ Expressen: Wiehe hyllar dictatorships Cuba (Wiehe praises the dictatorship of Cuba.) ( Memento from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Web archive, September 3, 2014 Dagens Nyheter, March 5, 2007: Kuba är mera löfte än hot ( Eng .: Cuba is more a promise than a threat). Accessed February 25, 2020

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SURNAME Wiehe, Mikael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiehe, Mikael Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm