{"id":54,"date":"2013-02-03T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2022-01-12T21:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T19:12:55","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" title=\"Helen in red, portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/gallery\/biografi\/Helen-background.jpg\" alt=\"Helen in red, portrait\" width=\"265\" height=\"327\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo &amp; \u00a9 Anna-Lena Ahlstr\u00f6m<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Helen was born in Sundsvall on the 10th of July in 1970.&nbsp;From early on Helen devoted herself to both choir and solo singing and took a universe course in jazz and pop singing at Kulturama [a school for artistic studies in Stockholm]. She has also taken lessons for the well renowned vocal coach Torsten F\u00f6llinger.<\/p>\n<p>Her professional stage debut was made in the song- and entertainment group Just for Fun in the late 80\u2019s, and in 1988 she was awarded Stallbr\u00f6dernas Scholarship.<br \/>\nIn her home town of Sundsvall she participated in a number of musicals, for example in 1990 as Dorothy in <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, as well as taking part in a concert version of <em>Chess<\/em>. In 1991 she starred in Charles Dickens\u2019 <em>Little Dorrit<\/em> in Enskedespelet in Stockholm, before returning to Sundsvall in early 1992 for a part in <em>West Side Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Later the same year she portrayed Hedvig in <em>Elvira Madigan<\/em> at Malm\u00f6 Music Theatre, and the following year she had a part in<em> Volpone<\/em> at Intiman in Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p>Helen made her breakthrough as Kristina in the musical <a href=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/kristina-fran-duvemala\/\"><em>Kristina fr\u00e5n Duvem\u00e5la<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/helen2\/html\/ver2\/biografi\/duvemala_eng.htm\" target=\"cwindow\" rel=\"noopener\">,<\/a>&nbsp;which premiered at Malm\u00f6 Music Theatre in 1995. At the Music Theatre she also played the part of Hodel in <em>Fiddler of the Roof<\/em> in 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1996<\/strong> Helen received Sundsvalls Tidnings and SCA Forest Products Anniversary Scholarship and in 1997 she was honored both the Thalia Stauette and the Ulla Billquist Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The following year she participated in the successful <em>B&amp;B concerts<\/em>, along with Karin and Anders Glenmark, Tommy K\u00f6rberg, Orsa Spelm\u00e4n and G\u00f6teborgs Symfoniker. Songs from Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaues and Benny Andersson\u2019s collected production were performed. <em>The B&amp;B concerts<\/em> have been performed both in Sweden and abroad, and the CD called <em>Fr\u00e5n Waterloo till Duvem\u00e5la<\/em> that was recorded and published in 1998 was a great success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1999<\/strong> Helen and Myrra Malmberg had their own show at Gr\u00f6na Lundsteatern. During the 90\u2019s Helen was also a member of the group Meiram, consisting of her and her childhood friend Anna Stadling.<\/p>\n<p>Helen made her movie debut in 1999 in Richard Hobert\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=40634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">D\u00e4r regnb\u00e5gen slutar<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;but before that she had lent her voice to several animated movies:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Askungen<\/em> (<em>Cinderella<\/em>) (1994)<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Leo the Lion &#8211; King of the Jungle<\/em> (1994)<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022<em>&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Alice i Underlandet<\/em> (<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>) (1995)<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Black Beauty &#8211; den svarta hingsten<\/em> (<em>Black Beauty<\/em>)(1995)&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Heidi<\/em> (1995)&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>\u00c4ventyret om R\u00f6dluvan och Vargen<\/em> ( <em>Little Red Riding Hood<\/em>) (1995)&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=21958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>\u00c4ventyret om T\u00f6rnrosa (Sleeping Beauty)<\/em> (1995)&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022<em>&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=28286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Djungeldjuret Hugo &#8211; den stora filmhj\u00e4lten<\/em> (1996) &#8211; Zenzuella&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenskfilmdatabas.se\/sv\/item\/?type=film&amp;itemid=34721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Anastasia<\/em> (1997) &#8211; Anya\/Anastasia<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bio_2.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00e4r regnb\u00e5gen slutar\" width=\"398\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bio_2.jpg 398w, https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bio_2-350x300.jpg 350w, https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bio_2-250x214.jpg 250w, https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bio_2-125x107.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D\u00e4r regnb\u00e5gen slutar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen was born in Sundsvall on the 10th of July in 1970.&nbsp;From early on Helen devoted herself to both choir and solo singing and took <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/background\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}