{"id":11172,"date":"2021-10-11T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=11172"},"modified":"2021-10-12T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:09:57","slug":"helen-sjoholm-it-feels-scary-to-tour-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/interviews-2021\/helen-sjoholm-it-feels-scary-to-tour-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Sj\u00f6holm: “It feels scary to tour again\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helen Sj\u00f6holm is looking forward to the upcoming tour. Photo & \u00a9: Ricky Tillblad<\/p><\/div>\n

Sm\u00e5landsposten 210928<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: MARIE MAGNUSSON<\/p>\n

Singer Helen Sj\u00f6holm is going on a big autumn tour. The visit in V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Concert Hall was planned in October, but then it was decided to postpone it until November 13. It was only a few days before the news of the release of the restrictions from September 29.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 We canceled the whole of October and three days later the decision was made to release the restrictions. It’s unfortunate, but too late to change again for us. We can only hope that it will happen now, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says in an interview with Sm\u00e5landsposten.<\/p>\n

Now she is in the starting pits to rehearse. The tour is called En ny tid (A New Time)<\/em> as her the latest album.<\/p>\n

\u2013 I dare not take anything for granted, but I\u00b4m happy. Now we go on this and it will be an extensive tour, even if there will not be as many gigs as was planned from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm with band will come to V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Concert Hall on November 13.<\/p>\n

What will you offer?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 There will be new songs from the latest album. It was completed when everything shut down last year. Then files had to be sent to the studio. Now we can be more together, that’s how you want to work. It’s fun to rehearse, you can get the idea and want to try something new. Then things can happen. On the tour, I work with musicians I have not worked with before, it will be exciting!<\/p>\n

\u2013 Then it\u00b4s the case that you always play certain songs that you know the audience wants to hear. These are songs I’ve been living with for a while. The musicians are fantastic, so it will be great.<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm hasn\u00b4t written the songs herself, but she thinks it’s fun to be a part of when they grow up.<\/p>\n

\u2013 I write very little, I\u00b4m not a songwriter. But when I\u00b4m involved in the arrangements and arrangements, I make the songs mine.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Helen Sj\u00f6holm performed at Uppsala City Theater in the musical Next to Normal<\/em>. The premiere was ten days before everything was shut down.<\/p>\n

\u2013 We thought we would play again in May, then it was planned for January. During the pandemic, there have been some new collaborations that have blossomed. I have reconnected with my old friend Anna Stadling. We have been singing together for 40 years, ever since we were ten and sang in a choir. Maybe there will be a tour with Christmas music before next Christmas. It’s lying around a bit. Since then, I have done some small things, such as filming and roles in two different TV series. There may be other things later on that apply to the musical scene, Helen Sj\u00f6holm reveals .<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm has also been in the TV series Thunder in my heart<\/em> and will be current in the second season of B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m<\/em>, which was filmed this spring.<\/p>\n

\u2013 I really shouldn\u00b4t complain, I have had a job. But touring and singing live, that bit has been dead.<\/p>\n

How does it feel then, to go on a big tour now?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Scary! You lose the sense of what you are capable of. You long, rehearse to meet the audience. Will it work? This is a fresh product and I have never felt completely safe when I meet the audience.<\/p>\n

Are you nervous?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Yes, I’m absolutely nervous. How should it be received? Will anyone listen? You try to live up to something and it\u00b4s not always that easy. Then once you are on stage, all that disappears, you go into a different mood. The senses are opened to something else. Fortunately.<\/p>\n

Which is more fun, to sing or to act?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 I ask that question to myself sometimes. It’s fun to get the music into other media, like on stage with an ensemble. Then you enter another world. But I love to sing. I have my base in making music. If you have a dramatic story to tell, you go into a character, that’s a different thing. It will be exciting to tighten the bow now!<\/p>\n

What has Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la meant to you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 So much! I had some on my feet then, but I learned so much. That was when I broke through and it has affected a lot. It was an important period. I still sing some of the songs, and since then I have continued, mostly with Benny Andersson. It has been a long journey and it has given me a lot.<\/p>\n

Do you have any dreams to realize?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 No clear dream role. Kristina<\/em> was exciting. Something innovative, something new with a new form where you can put your own stamp and be creative. A newly written musical theater performance perhaps? A dream is to have a monologue performance with a musical line on a female portrait. There are many exciting historical women you know who should be allowed to sing out.<\/p>\n

What was it like recording the TV show S\u00e5 mycket b\u00e4ttre (So Much Better)?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 It was incredibly fun and nervous! I don\u00b4t regret it, it was special. Then it was a little too short a time, it became a little fast.<\/p>\n

Autumn is coming, what do you think about that?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 I love autumn! But it gets a little tougher with age, this transition from summer to autumn is getting heavier. But then it gets easier again. I\u00b4m a mountain hiker, there will be a lot of hiking in the autumn.<\/p>\n

What are your memories of V\u00e4xj\u00f6?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Oh, I have several. We did a fantastic concert version of Kristina<\/em> twenty years ago. 1995 I borrowed a cabin outside V\u00e4xj\u00f6 for a few days and recharged at Utvandrarnas hus before the rehearsals of Kristina. I usually trudge around V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lake when I’m in town! I have to walk, it’s my therapy, next to the song, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

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