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Dalarnas Tidningar 110329<\/strong><\/p>\n By: ANNA LINDBERG<\/p>\n When Helen Sj\u00f6holm was young she used to sing in her father’s sheet metal workshop and dreamed of one day becoming an artist. Her life changed completely when she got the lead role of Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la, and she still cannot quite believe that the dream of becoming a great singer come true. Helen Sj\u00f6holm greets with a big smile on her face when we meet at the Diesel Workshop\u2019s caf\u00e9 in Sickla outside Stockholm. You can tell that she is a warm and friendly person with both feet on the ground. Her eyes sweep over the menu before she finally orders a multiculti-salad, something she has never tried before.<\/p>\n Helen Sj\u00f6holm has just completed a tour with her Euforia CD, on which she interprets Billy Joel songs. The idea to make such an album came by coincidence; one day she listened to She’s Always a Woman, an old favorite song that she had almost forgotten. Since she didn\u00b4t want to do an album of cover songs, but instead find something of her own, she decided to sing the songs in her native language. Helen Sj\u00f6holm is small and neat, but has a great voice. She early discovered the power of it, and when she was eight years old her mother brought her to a choir. She sang in the choir until she was 19 years old, and as a young girl she often fantasized about life as an artist. As a teenager she used to help her dad clean up his sheet metal workshop, which was a great place to sing in. During high school she met musicians who cheered her on, and it was thanks to such meetings she finally dared to go in for her singing completely. Helen Sj\u00f6holm’s own Cinderella story started after high school, when she took a couple of years off to sing. In 1992 she starred in a big amateur performance in Enskede. The music was written by Benny Andersson’s brother in law, which made the music legend came to see the play. He had his eyes of the young girl from Sundsvall.<\/p>\n Two years later Benny Andersson contacted her when he was writing the musical Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la and needed to record demos to hear how the melodies sounded with vocals on. When it was time for auditions for the musical, Benny Andersson called her and urged her to apply. Among thousands of applicants, in the end it was Helen Sj\u00f6holm who landed the role of Kristina. But of course it was a success, to say the least. Premiering in Malm\u00f6 in 1995, the musical was played for four years and received standing ovations. This was Helen Sj\u00f6holm\u2019s big break through. Several years later, in the fall of 2009, the Kristina project was raised again and in the English concert version of the musical, she sang the title role at Carnegie Hall in New York to thousands of people. Before she gets on stage to sing to a large audience, she feels a pleasurable nervousness and a huge adrenaline rush. Helen Sj\u00f6holm has never educated her voice, and she thinks that it has been to her advantage, although she sometimes wishes she was better at reading notes. In recent years the versatile singer has also appeared on the silver screen, since directors have called her and asked if they can screen test her. Her most famous film part she has in As it is in heaven, which she thinks was really fun to shoot. Helen Sj\u00f6holm thinks she is pretty bad at taking care of her voice. But that\u00b4s nothing for Helen Sj\u00f6holm, she’d rather be herself and have a living voice that will chafes a bit and not always sounds clear.<\/p>\n She thinks she is living the life that the young, daydreaming Sundsvall girl in the echoing rooms of the sheet metal workshop once fantasized about, but in a different way than she thought. 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\n<\/strong>– I often pinch my arm.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n– I fell in love with it again and then I became curious about Billy Joel.<\/p>\n
\n– By interpreting them in Swedish they became whole new songs.<\/p>\n
\n– It was great fun, because I suddenly had a place where I could do what I had wanted to do all along.<\/p>\n
\n– But I had no concrete plans to become a singer, I rather thought that I would study and get a good job.<\/p>\n
\n– It was such awesome acoustics, so I was there a lot and sang. It became like a secret place for me, where I could live out my singing fantasies.<\/p>\n
\n– You listen extra when outsiders encourage you. My parents thought it was nice that I was doing the singing, but I think as a parent you also want to create a kind of awareness in your child about what they’re getting into.<\/p>\n
\n– I took a cab to his studio and was absolutely overjoyed.<\/p>\n
\n– It was totally crazy. I immediately felt that this will change my life, whether it will a be success or not.<\/p>\n
\n– If Kristina hadn\u00b4t arrived, perhaps I hadn\u00b4t been doing music professionally.<\/p>\n
\n– It was terribly hard to switch from Swedish to English, to learn new lyrics to what I had sung 500-600 times before. But it was insanely fun too!<\/p>\n
\n– It’s like jumping off a trampoline and not knowing what is beneath it.<\/p>\n
\n– I think I’ve developed even more because I have created my own technique instead of listening too much to others and be overly technical.<\/p>\n
\n– It was a damn fun bunch of people to work with. We got into the characters rather quickly and the togetherness we felt did a lot for the movie, she says, smiling and sipping on her tea.<\/p>\n
\n– You should really talk with the stomach in this way, so that one has a good tone and do not damage your vocal cords, she says with a made up deep voice that makes me laugh.<\/p>\n
\n– But you don\u00b4t just live the dream, you do a real and immersive work as well.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>GABRIELLA’S SONG \/ You are my man
\nHiking with Tommy K\u00f6rberg \/ GOING TO THE SPA WITH BENNY ANDERSSON
\nLIKE KRISTINA EMIGRATE TO KI-CHI-SAGA \/ Making an Aniara Journey
\nHarry Martinson \/ VILHELM MOBERG
\nTO HAVE MICHAEL NYQVIST AS A CHOIR MASTER \/ Managing Alls\u00e5ng p\u00e5 Skansen (Sing-along at Skansen)<\/p>\n
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\nFull name: <\/strong>Marie Helen Sj\u00f6holm Granditsky.
\nBorn:<\/strong> July 10 1970.
\nFamily: <\/strong>Husband David and son Ruben, three years old.
\nLives:<\/strong> In Nacka, outside Stockholm.
\nDo:<\/strong> Is a singer and an actress.
\nFavorite music:<\/strong> Listens very little to music right now, but likes Ane Brun.
\nInterests:<\/strong> Spending time with her family.
\nHidden talent:<\/strong> Is really good at grinding, painting and renovating.
\nMakes her angry:<\/strong> Bullying and meanness.<\/p>\n
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