Mikael Wiehe 2005.

Mikael Wiehe, (born April 10, 1946 i, Stockholm) is a Swedish musician and composer. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (599x711, 59 KB) Mikael Wiehe. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (599x711, 59 KB) Mikael Wiehe. ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...   Stockholm? is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Wiehe grew up in Malmö, in the Scania region of southern Sweden, giving him his noticeable Scanian accent.   Malmö? IPA: [málmø:] is a town and municipality in the southernmost Swedish province of SkÃ¥ne. ... Scania (Skåne) is the southernmost historical Province (landskap) of Sweden. ... Scanian (Swedish: SkÃ¥nska ) is a dialect of Sweden spoken in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden. ...

His music is comparable to Bob Dylan's leftist proletarian folk music, dealing with what he considers right and wrong in the society from the eyes of the common man. Wiehe makes no secret of having voted for the Swedish Left Party (before 1990 known as Left Party - Communists) his entire life. Portrait photograph by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is a highly influential American singer-songwriter, musician, and poet. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is called a proletarian. ... The Left Party or (Vänsterpartiet or V) is a political party in Sweden. ...

He was a close friend of the late Björn Afzelius, for instance in the rock band Hoola Bandoola Band. Together they toured around Sweden and other countries in Scandinavia) during the 1970s and 80s. Wiehe is still active and performs all around Sweden, using material from his 20-some albums (excluding various compilations) either by him alone or together with Afzelius. A recently published song book contains the lyrics and melodies to 220 of his songs. Björn Afzelius (1947-1999) was a Swedish singer, song writer and guitar player. ... Hoola Bandoola Band. ... Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ...

Det här är ditt land, 2000 single

In 2000, he released the single Det här är ditt land, a Swedish-language adaptation of the Woody Guthrie song This Land is Your Land which recieved substantial play on Swedish radio. Image File history File links Mikael_Wiehe_single,_Det_här_är_ditt_land. ... Image File history File links Mikael_Wiehe_single,_Det_här_är_ditt_land. ... Look up Single in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Single can mean: A single is a song commercially released separately from an album. ... Woody Guthrie Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967), known almost universally as Woody, was a folk singer and raconteur who wrote some of Americas best-loved songs. ... This Land is Your Land is one of the United States most famous folk songs, written by Woody Guthrie in 1940. ...

External links

• official website