{"id":1879,"date":"2013-05-11T07:44:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=1879"},"modified":"2022-03-06T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T17:04:17","slug":"sjoholm-is-willing-to-emigrate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/interviews-2009\/sjoholm-is-willing-to-emigrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sj\u00f6holm is willing to emigrate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aftonbladet
\n<\/strong>Helen Sj\u00f6holm outside Carnegie Hall in New York where she made an <\/em> acclaimed
\nappearance in \u201dKristina fr\u00e5n Duvem\u00e5la\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Aftonbladet 091011<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: YLVA NIKLASSON
\nPhoto: PONTUS H\u00d6\u00d6K<\/p>\n

\u201dI really got a taste for New York\u201d Helen Sj\u00f6holm\u2019s smash hit in the USA whetted her appetite. Now she hopes that it will provide new offers.
\n– Wouldn\u2019t it be fantastic to move to New York for a while, she says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm,<\/strong> 39, is a pessimist.
\nWhy, one may really wonder.
\n– I really have no reason – everything is going my way – but I\u2019m like that, raised not to take anything for granted, she says. We sit at the Oscar Theatre where she currently plays the third season of \u201cMy Fair Lady\u201d to sold out houses. Her song \u201cDu \u00e4r min man\u201d is on the Swedish charts for the fifth consecutive year, and last week she received a standing ovation for \u201cKristina\u201d concerts in the historic Carnegie Hall in New York.
\n– It was a great moment. I was so incredibly nervous before, such a crazy feeling came over me before I was about to enter the stage, \u201cthis is insane, what am I really doing?\u201d. It wasn\u2019t time to screw things up then when they had brought me over there all the way from Sweden, she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cA huge warm welcome\u201d<\/strong>
\nBut the 3000-crowd loved it, N\u00f6jesbladet were there and witnessed the smash hit. Helen smiles at the memory.
\n– Yes, it went well. The nerves calmed down when I got on stage and got such a huge warm welcome. During the rehearsals I forgot the lyrics when I became too emotional, for example during \u201cYou have to be there\u201d, but luckily I nailed it at the concerts.<\/p>\n

How did it otherwise go to sing in English?  <\/strong><\/em>
\n– The translation was incredibly nice and it didn\u2019t feel artificial, but how the pronunciation sounded, someone else can be the judge of. I have toiled incredibly hard over the summer and it never felt really good at first – but that came off when I got there.<\/p>\n

Haven\u2019t been nagging <\/strong>
\nWhy haven\u2019t you pursued a career abroad before?  <\/strong><\/em>
\n– Had someone phoned me with an offer I would certainly have cheered, but I haven\u2019t exactly been fighting for it. I\u2019ve never been so keen on it that I have been pressing and nagging \u2013 it\u2019s enough for me the things I get to do here at home.<\/p>\n

Enjoys it at Oscars<\/strong>
\nBut would you want to join in on a staging of \u201cKristina\u201d in the USA?  <\/strong><\/em>
\n– I doubt it, because it\u2019s such a great enterprice. They work so terribly hard and I find it really hard to imagine to play eight, nine performances a week and see my family so little. I thoroughly enjoy myself now at Oscars with \u201cMy Fair Lady\u201c, we play three or four days a week.
\nBut can you imagine to move to the USA for a period and do more concerts?  <\/strong><\/em>
\n– Absolutely, that would be fantastic, I really got my appetite whetted. I thoroughly like New York and I have no problem imagining myself to move there. But it\u2019s about everyday life, the family will have to come and we\u2019d need time to see each other. That will be a difficult combination.<\/p>\n

Lucky to meet Bj\u00f6rn and Benny<\/strong>
\nDo you wonder what would have happened if you had not been discovered by Bj\u00f6rn and Benny?  <\/strong><\/em>
\n– Yes, sometimes. I\u2019ve been very lucky. I had five years of education and learned a lot about myself as an artist and about being on stage – that had never happened without the part as Kristina. Without Bj\u00f6rn and Benny I don\u2019t know what had become of my singing career.<\/p>\n

Have you earned a fortune over the years?  <\/strong><\/em>
\n– I\u2019m really well off, but am in no way financially independent. We have invested in good living and it costs. I still need to work and I take nothing for granted. Things are going well now, but can change like this. Helen snaps her fingers. Then she realises what she\u2019s said and laughs.
\n– Like I said, I\u2019m a pessimist. But that\u2019s probably good too, since I become pleasantly surprised every time it goes well.<\/p>\n

\n

HELEN ABOUT…<\/strong><\/p>\n

40-year-old crisis:<\/strong>
\n– I\u2019m not so stressed about it work-wise, you can be hot stuff when you\u2019re a 60-year-old woman. But on other levels it\u2019s worse – I feel in my body that I get older.
\nSon Ruben, two years:  <\/strong>
\n– I\u2019ve never been away from him as long as the three weeks in the USA, it was terribly hard. I longed for him all the time.
\nMelodifestivalen:  <\/strong>
\n– I have been asked several times, but never liked the songs. And a three minute circus performance is too short for me – I get a half panic just thinking about it.
\nSpring 2010:  <\/strong>
\n– I don\u2019t really know. I want to work with a new album and do some concerts, but no major things are booked. It feels quite nice actually.
\n\u201dMy Fair Lady\u201d:<\/strong>
\n– I\u2019m so glad I jumped on the project. I\u2019ve never worked with such a strong ensemble and it\u2019s a breeze to go to work. Eliza is a great role.
\n\u201dDu \u00e4r min man”:  <\/strong>
\n– It\u2019s totally crazy. The song was kind of roughly made. It was just a fun song, and I never ever thought that it would become a symbol of me.<\/p>\n

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