By: ANNA & HANS SHIMODA<\/p>\n
Photo: CAROLINA BYRMO<\/p>\n
25 years ago, She got her breakthrough in Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la<\/em>. Helen Sj\u00f6holm, who turns 50 today, cannot point out enough how much the role has meant to her.<\/strong> (…)<\/p>\n Today, the singing Sj\u00f6holm turns 50, something she doesn\u00b4t make a big deal of.<\/p>\n \u2013 I don\u00b4t think it’s so dramatic. I\u00b4m healthy and have a body that works, I feel happy about it and try not to think too much about numbers, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says on the phone.<\/p>\n How should the day be celebrated?<\/strong> Was it what you thought it would be?<\/strong> Did you bond extra with someone?<\/strong> We interviewed Tommy K\u00f6rberg a while ago and he said that he would wear different glasses with different colors every day to fuck with the TV producers, so they would not be able to cut anyhow. Did you have a similar idea?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 I can damn well imagine that he had! But I had no such draft, no. I had new underwear every day anyway …<\/p>\n It\u00b4s 25 years since your breakthrough with Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la<\/em>, what has that role meant to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 A lot, it was my breakthrough and to do it with such a big role was fantastic. People had such high expectations and Kristina was already in the hearts of many Swedes, Bj\u00f6rn and Benny did something monumental of their own. It was a leading female role and it was maybe bigger than I could understand then which was probably good, haha! When I look at it with different eyes now, it was no matter how big. I learned so much during these five years, it was five incredible years.<\/p>\n Many artists have a song that is “their own” and that they are strongly associated with. You have impressively three; You Have To Be There, You Are My Man<\/em> and Gabriella’s Song<\/em> from As It Is In Heaven<\/em>.<\/strong> \u2013 You Have To Be There<\/em> addresses things that not everyone dares to address, it\u00b4s almost like a cry of anxiety. Young girls have come to me and said that it\u00b4s fantastic. And Gabriella’s Song<\/em> has made me get a response like “do you know that this song has changed my life?”<\/p>\n How did you get in touch with Bj\u00f6rn and Benny from the very beginning?<\/strong> Have you dreamed of breaking through abroad?<\/strong> If we’re talking about future plans – what are you up to?<\/strong> In ten years you will turn 60, where are you then?<\/strong> There has been a lot of writing about various grants in these corona times and we know that your husband David, who is a sound engineer, has been involved in the problem that those who decide don\u00b4t know how the entertainment industry works. How have you been doing financially during this time?<\/strong> \u2013 But I can live on what is available and I\u00b4ve had the opportunity to resign so I get a small compensation, but you have to see how long it lasts. But I don\u00b4t live a big life so I\u00b4ll manage, there are so many others who have it tough.<\/p>\n (…)<\/p>\n (The entire interview is not reproduced for copyright reasons)<\/em><\/p>\n Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (…) Aftonbladet 200710 By: ANNA & HANS SHIMODA Photo: CAROLINA BYRMO 25 years ago, She got her breakthrough in Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la. Helen Sj\u00f6holm, who Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10092,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10095","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10095\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2013 Perhaps it was bigger than I could understand then, she says to Aftonbladet.<\/strong><\/p>\n“Party is not to think about”<\/h5>\n
\n\u2013 Partying in that way isn\u00b4t anything to think about, but it does not feel like it is important. I had a wonderful surprise evening with some friends who showed up that I had no idea about. I feel dizzy and happy about it, all steered up by my husband and it was absolutely amazing. Now we are going to meet my parents in Sk\u00e5ne, I haven\u00b4t met them in a very long time. Only that feels like a party so it’s fun.<\/p>\n“Haven’t melted it yet”<\/h5>\n
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You recently recorded So Much Better<\/em> – how was it?<\/strong>
\n\u2013 I haven\u00b4t melted it yet, I\u00b4m not very comfortable with having cameras in the face and comment and formulate myself all the time. It’s not my thing, but it was fascinating and moving and awesome. I’m full of very emotions after those days.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 I don\u00b4t really know what I had imagined, but that it would be so intense isn\u00b4t really possible to prepare for. I didn\u00b4t know any of those who were there at the same time. I knew most of them a little, but not all.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 I was only there for three days, but overall this gang was exciting. Loreen and I had interesting conversations. The one you think is most different, maybe you have the most similarities with.<\/p>\n25 years in the spotlight<\/h5>\n
\n\u2013 You Are My Man <\/em>was great fun to do, but it was with a back heel I would say. I thought it was fun, like an old tune from the 50’s. We had no idea that it would attach in that enormous way. I\u00b4ve really got some good melodies and everyone has been clear in its language. There have been clear lyrics, like Gabriella’s Song<\/em> which Py B\u00e4ckman and Stefan Nilsson made. Of course, I’m grateful to have that with me in life.<\/p>\nScouted by Benny<\/h5>\n
\n\u2013 It was crazy, there are an amateur play in Enskede that they have set up for many years. In 1991 I got a tip about it and I got a big role there. Then Benny got there, because his brother-in-law wrote music for that play and then Benny called me, he needed someone who sang some demos for Kristina and he wanted a neutral voice. So I did and I was happy already there. I received a cassette tape that I cared for tenderly. Then Benny called and said that I had to audition, which I had planned to do anyway and got the role.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 I have sung in the USA, England, the Nordic countries, but I have never had any driving force to make an international career, I have enjoyed myself and love the Swedish language and feel at home in it.<\/p>\nPostponed tour<\/h5>\n
\n\u2013 I have been working on a new record so I\u00b4ll release new material this fall and it feels great that it can happen this year. Then I would tour, but we’ll see when it happens. But I would like to film more, it\u00b4s a dream to have more challenges within that field.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Then I, pepper, pepper, will sit here and talk to someone about it and have the same life. Hopefully we stay in our house and I hope that I still work and that there is room for someone like me, you don\u00b4t know.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 He has had it tougher than me because he has a sole proprietorship. I\u00b4ve worked a lot over the years so I manage for a while. Then you get to see how long “a while” will be. Autumn already disappeared for me, everything that existed has disappeared so in the long term it doesn\u00b4t look so good, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says and continues:<\/p>\n