{"id":10526,"date":"2020-12-25T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T13:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=10526"},"modified":"2020-12-25T20:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T18:02:55","slug":"super-current-helen-sjoholm-in-a-great-interview-about-her-long-career-and-love-for-sundsvall-i-have-followed-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/interviews-2020\/super-current-helen-sjoholm-in-a-great-interview-about-her-long-career-and-love-for-sundsvall-i-have-followed-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Super current Helen Sj\u00f6holm in a great interview – about her long career and love for Sundsvall: “I\u00b4ve followed my heart”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bild: P\u00e4r B\u00e4ckstrand, TV4\/CMore<\/p><\/div>\n

Sundsvalls Tidning 201211<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: PATRICIA JONESTR\u00d6M<\/p>\n

Despite the gloomy year with the corona pandemic, Helen Sj\u00f6holm from Sundsvall has a really good year on paper. She released a new album, participates in a Christmas movie at the cinema and is super current in the TV4 hit So much better<\/em>.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 I\u00b4ve followed my heart and I\u00b4m proud of that, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The year 2020 looks on paper to be her year; a musical role, a role against Kjell Bergqvist in the TV4 series B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m<\/em>, the newly released album En Ny Tid<\/em>, a role in the Christmas movie Tills solen g\u00e5r upp<\/em> and debut in the TV program S\u00e5 mycket b\u00e4ttre (So much better)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She describes the year as strange and lost. Both she and her husband, who also work in the music industry, have been significantly affected by the corona pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u2013 This year has been marked by anxiety and the strangeness in that everything has been canceled. This is something that we who work with human encounters and culture have really felt, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

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\u2013 I’ve been lucky. That the project with the record that I have been working on for many years came now and that the film role appeared, it turned out so well. It’s great fun and I’m grateful for the opportunities I get and that I stay broad. I do many things – and like it, which is an benefit now.<\/p>\n

You work with both music and film – what is it that attracts the most?<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2013 Many people probably see me as a musical artist as I\u00b4ve done a lot of musical theater. I don\u00b4t like labels, but of course the combination of theater and music is unbeatable when it’s right. The dream would be to film something where the music carries the action. It\u00b4s a bit unexplored in Sweden and it would be fun to experiment a bit with it, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

How do you look back on the role in Bj\u00f6rn and Benny’s musical Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la?<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2013 With a huge joy. It was a magical time – and it became a very important years. Being able to work with a character for a long time and develop it meant that it never got boring. Getting a role with newly written material in that way is almost impossible. It happens once in a lifetime – and for most people not at all. It\u00b4s an incredible gift to receive in your life even though it was very demanding super tough years, she says.<\/p>\n

Even though she lives outside Stockholm, she goes “home” to Sundsvall as soon as she gets the chance.<\/p>\n

\u2013 I grew up in Sundsvall and that means a lot to me. It\u00b4s a strongly marked choir city. SVT had many large broadcasts from Sundsvall where I was in choirs in my teens, including in Caf\u00e9 Sundsvall<\/em>. I’m glad I got the opportunity. Kjell L\u00f6nn\u00e5 has done more for music-Sweden than he has received cred for, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

It\u00b4s on Aln\u00f6, to her parents in the house by the sea, that she goes when she comes here.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It’s my place of recreation. We lived in town when I was little, but always spent the summers in the house on Aln\u00f6. It means a lot of joy, but there have also been tougher periods when you have gotten there. It\u00b4s restful to be there and it is valuable to have it, she says.<\/p>\n

After previously refusing to participate, she is now finally actual in the TV program So much better<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Those were intense days. Fantastic fun, but quite hard. I’m not that fond of having a camera on my face around the clock. I have a hard time formulating myself and am actually quite slow. It was a great pleasure to meet all the amazing people and hear all the interpretations – not least the versions of my own songs, she says, and continues:<\/p>\n

\u2013 It was more nervous than I thought to stand in front of an original artist who you accept highly and perform my interpretations of their songs.<\/p>\n

Do you think you are popular, or do you think you can be that for a new audience with the program?<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2013 I think many people remember Kristina. It’s popular and there’s a lot of love for the show, but I don\u00b4t know if I’m popular. I dont think I can attract a younger audience now, it\u00b4s probably more mixed, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

Do you ever get bored of the songs from Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la and Du \u00e4r min man?<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2013 No, I’m probably getting more tired of myself. You have a bond with the audience to perform what they love and want to hear.<\/p>\n

According to Helen Sj\u00f6holm, the key is to find different variants of the songs and how they can be performed.<\/p>\n

What are you most proud of in your career?<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2013 There are two things; that I could lift the role of Kristina and make it something that people embraced. I was quite inexperienced, only 25 years old. I had sung, but not been much on the music scene\u2026 I\u00b4m very proud that I could do that. And that I dared to follow my heart and gut feeling, she says.<\/p>\n

Now she is also relevant in the Christmas movie Tills solen g\u00e5r upp (Until the Sun Rises)<\/em> which she describes as a relationship drama with comic features. She plays the wife of the character played by Mikael Persbrandt.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Peter Dalle called and wanted me to play wife, that I\u00b4m a real wife – and what do you say then? “Yes, Peter Dalle, how fun”, she says, laughing.<\/p>\n

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Finally, what exactly is your dream job?<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2013 My sister and I always wanted to be on the Christmas calendar on SVT. It’s a childhood dream. It\u00b4s something, a fairy tale, that everyone sits in front of and usually watch – even the elderly. It\u00b4s a good tradition and something nice about it – an escape from reality and a tension in how to build everything up to door 24, says Helen Sj\u00f6holm.<\/p>\n

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Facts:<\/h5>\n

Name:<\/strong> Helen Sj\u00f6holm<\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong> 50 years<\/p>\n

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Profession:<\/strong> Singer and actress<\/p>\n

Family:<\/strong> Husband and three children<\/p>\n

Interests:<\/strong> My job actually. Or cooking – I\u00b4m good at both eating and cooking. I like being in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Hidden talent:<\/strong> I can do a lot at the same time; cook, furnish and hang laundry, so I\u00b4m terribly efficient privately. There is one side of the corona pandemic that is not so bad that you can slow down – everything else is useless.<\/p>\n

In ten years:<\/strong> Hopefully I am in the same situation as now; lives, works and is healthy. And of course I hope that I can continue to go to Aln\u00f6 and “bring myself home”. There I have my roots and can gain perspective and gain strength. <\/p>\n

(The entire interview is not reproduced for copyright reasons)<\/em><\/p>\n

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