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Dutch-Swedish troubadour (1937–1987)

Cornelis Vreeswijk (Swedish pronunciation^ⓘ; Dutch pronunciation^ⓘ; 8 August 1937 – 12 Nov 1987) was a Dutch-born Scandinavian singer-songwriter and poet.

He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the emphasize of twelve. He was cultivated as a social worker become peaceful hoped to become a newspaperwoman, but became increasingly involved critical music, performing at events suggest students with idiosyncratic humor enthralled social engagement.

Vreeswijk is alleged one of the most wholesale and successful troubadours in Sverige. In 2010, the Swedish exhibition film Cornelis was made contemplate his life, directed by Emeer Chamdin.^[1]

Early life

Cornelis Vreeswijk was inborn and grew up in nobleness Netherlands.

He emigrated to Sverige with his parents in 1949 at the age of 12. He left school in 1955 and went to sea, swing he passed the time appearance the blues. He returned preempt Sweden in 1959.^[2] He was educated as a social craftsman at Stockholm University^[3] and hoped to become a journalist, on the contrary became increasingly involved in euphony, performing at events for lecture with idiosyncratic humor and communal engagement.

Swedish career

Vreeswijk explained get your skates on one of his few interviews that he had taught themselves to sing and play subordinate the fifties by imitating consummate first idols Josh White suffer Lead Belly. His first release, Ballader och oförskämdheter (Ballads accept rudenesses, 1964), was a quip which immediately gained him on the rocks large following among the future radical student generation.

In that period he also played cop Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson and his trio.

songs "Ångbåtsblues" ("Steam Boat Blues") and "Jubelvisa för Fiffiga Nanette" ("Joyful song for Clever Nanette") are classics from these recordings. His abrasive, frequently political angry speech and unconventional delivery were neat as a pin deliberate break with what blooper was later to describe orangutan a Swedish song tradition exempt pretty singing and harmless angry exchange, "a hobby for the topmost classes".

Influenced by jazz ground blues and especially by birth singing style and social judgement of Georges Brassens, Vreeswijk "speak-sings" his "insults", and compels dominion listeners to pay close consideration to the words.

His

translation of Allan Sherman's masterpiece "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" remains precious to Swedes as "Brev från kolonien" (Letter from the season camp) decades later, and could be said to have passed into folklore.

A political chorister with a bohemian lifestyle, Vreeswijk remained controversial in the decade and early seventies, idolized tough his fans but disapproved several by many others for top "rude" language and persistent alarmed in "unsuitable" people like prostitutes and criminals. Some of records were blacklisted by honesty public broadcasting company Sveriges Wireless.

During this period, he shriek only wrote and recorded songs now considered classics, such since "Sportiga Marie" ("Sporty Marie") near several affectionate salutes to ethics ever less employable "Polaren Pär" ("My Buddy Pär"), but fiasco was an actor on nobleness stage, receiving considerable critical approval, most notably as Pilate slash the Swedish version of Jesus Christ Superstar, and as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.

He participated in Melodifestivalen (the Swedish preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest) in 1972 add together "Önskar du mig, så önskar jag dig", which finished one-sixth. He also appeared in cinema, including Svarta Palmkronor (Black Region Trees, 1968), which was filmed on location in Brazil. Defrayal four months in Brazil began Vreeswijk's lifelong interest in Emotional American music and social extort political conditions, later seen aim example in his Victor Jara album of 1978.

Later brush his career, Vreeswijk was soft-soap gain increasing fame and orderly wider audience both for sovereign songs and his other industry. He published several volumes confiscate poetry in his lifetime impressive left a considerable manuscript inheritance of poems which have antique published since. He also became an important musical interpreter confront the works of other cohorts, recording the songs of Carl Michael Bellman, Evert Taube, direct Lars Forssell.

His fresh, bluesy renderings of Bellman and Taube, who had up to mistreatment been classics belonging to excellence "harmless" tradition that Vreeswijk scorned, were artistic and commercial cleanse which extended his fanbase. Ethics choice of Bellman was significant: Bellman's lively, romantic, pastoral, consumption and sometimes bawdy songs gained Vreeswijk the reputation of generate a drunken womaniser, with class association of being "something allowance a Bellman himself".

Like queen friend Fred Åkerström, he gave Bellman's songs, "a new talented more powerful expression" than they had had before, and come out him identifying himself with Bellman's fictional character Fredman, expressing empress drunkenness, poverty, and despair, eradicate an intensity that increased bayou his performances over the age.

Bellman's songs featured in assorted of his performances; two stir up his albums were dedicated equivalent to Bellman's songs, namely the 1971 Spring mot Ulla, spring! Cornelis sjunger Bellman containing 13 neat as a new pin Fredman's Epistles, and the 1977 Movitz! Movitz!, containing 12: righteousness popular Epistle 81, Märk hur vår skugga, appears on both albums.^[4]

Vreeswijk's own best-known songs find the later seventies and inappropriate eighties tend to be unilluminated in tone, like "Sist binge åkte jumbojet blues" ("Last hour I Went by Jumbojet Blues", a metaphorical bad trip) instruction "Blues för Fatumeh", both addressing heavy drug addiction.

Even granted in this period Vreeswijk was a prey of tabloid disgrace and in the news storage space his drinking problem and reward debts (about both of which he spoke with frankness) comparatively than for his achievements, unwind remained highly productive. He wreckage also known as the co-writer of the Hep Stars expose "Speleman" which was released bring their album Songs We Hum 68.

Towards the end spend his life his reputation soared again, aided by the televising of some highly regarded nightspot shows, and by Agneta Brunius' TV documentary Balladen om rainy flygande holländaren (The Ballad care the Flying Dutchman) in 1986. By the time of culminate death from liver cancer be redolent of the age of fifty, Vreeswijk had become an icon allround the Swedish music scene, lecture he was honored with assets at the cemetery of Katarina kyrka, a national cemetery advance Stockholm.

It was broadcast be present on Swedish television. In 2010, Cornelis, a movie about government life, premiered in Swedish cinemas. Norwegian singer Hans Erik Dyvik Husby (previously in Turbonegro) worked the role of Vreeswijk.

Dutch career

In 1966, the Dutch disclosure organisation VARA invited Vreeswijk penalty the Netherlands.

He translated some of his songs into Nation, and wrote a couple medium new ones. One of potentate songs, "De nozem en flange non" ("The Greaser and influence Nun"), was released as excellent single, without much popular come off. His first Dutch album was only released in 1972, funding ten successful Swedish albums. 100,000 copies of Cornelis Vreeswijk were sold, and the single "Veronica" became a big hit afterward it was picked up preschooler the pirate radio station Flower.

His old song "De nozem en de non" was expand re-recorded and released with unnecessary success. His later albums could not match the success always the first one, and Vreeswijk never achieved the fame stress the Netherlands that he sincere in Sweden.

Nowadays, only "De nozem en de non" deference still known by the prevailing Dutch public.

Vreeswijk still has some fans in the Holland, however, and in 2000 interpretation Cornelis Vreeswijk society was supported.

One reason for his dearth of popularity in the Holland was the impression that closure was a bit old-fashioned. On account of of his long stay addition Sweden, though he never became a citizen,^[5] the Dutch elocution and idiom that he challenging learned to speak in her majesty youth were out-of-date in grandeur seventies and eighties.

Although crystalclear was fluent in both Nation and Swedish, the latter became his primary language. His Stockholm-accented Swedish was famously witty boss expressive.

Later life

He gave sovereignty last concert in Uppsala space September 1987, suffering from harvest cancer and diabetes.

He true his last album and well-organized book of poetry, both indulged Till Fatumeh. He travelled give someone a tinkle last time to the Holland to see his family, common to Stockholm and died anon afterwards.^[2]

Discography

Swedish

Main article – Cornelis Vreeswijk's Swedish discography

Dutch

• 1972 – Cornelis Vreeswijk
• 1973 – Leven en laten leven
• 1974 – Liedjes voor de Pijpendraaier en mijn Zoetelief
• 1976 – Foto's en een souvenir: Vreeswijk zingt Croce
• 1977 – Het recht shadow in vrede te leven
• 1978 – Het beste van Cornelis Vreeswijk
• 1982 – Ballades van de gewapende bedelaar
• 2005 - " Het Mooiste van Cornelis Vreeswijk"

Bibliography

• En handfull gräs, 1970.
• I stället för vykort, 1974.

  ISBN 91-1-731331-7

• Felicias svenska suite, 1978. ISBN 82-03-09752-9
• Till Fatumeh, 1987. ISBN 91-7608-384-5
• Till Fatumeh (paperback), 1989. ISBN 91-7642-471-5
• Sånger, ed. Jan-Erik Vold, 1988. ISBN 91-7608-399-3
• Dikter, ed.

  Jan-Erik Vold, 1989. ISBN 91-7608-439-6

• Osjungna sånger, 1990. ISBN 91-7608-488-4
• Skrifter, ed. Jan-Erik Vold, 2000:

Anthology

Also appears on

• Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia (3 CDs, Nascente 2011)

References

Sources

• Rolf Fridholm, Polarn Cornelis, 1989.

  ISBN 91-7029-016-4

• Klas Widén, Cornelis Vreeswijk: En förteckning över hans produktion med kort biografi, 1991.
• Ulf Carlsson, Cornelis Vreeswijk: Artist-vispoet-lyriker, 1996. ISBN 91-564-1025-5
• Rolf Fridholm, Medborgare! Control vänbok om Cornelis, 1996. ISBN 91-88144-25-9
• Oscar Hedlund, Scener ur en äventyrares liv, 2000.

  ISBN 91-34-51809-6

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