Evert Taube

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Swedish author, artist, composer and singer, widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century. He is perhaps best known as a depictor of the idyllic, with motifs from the Swedish archipelagoes and from the Mediterranean, from a perspective every Swedish four-week holiday tourist could recognize. But he also wrote the most hitting anti-fascist anti-war poem in the Swedish language, "Målaren och Maria Pia", about the Italian war in Abyssinia, from the late '30s, as well as the anthem of the budding environmental movement in the '70s, "Änglamark" (originally written for the successful 1971 Hasse & Tage film The Apple War). Among Taube's most famous songs are "Calle Schewens vals", "Min älskling (du är som en ros)", "Dans på Sunnanö", "Brevet Från Lillan", "Flickan i Havanna", "Änglamark", "Sjösala vals", "Fritiof och Carmencita", "Så skimrande var aldrig havet" and "Så länge skutan kan gå". In 1925, he married Astri Bergman Taube, a painter and sculptress. Taube died in Stockholm on 31 January 1976. Link to Wikipedia biography