Father Gösta and grandfather Efraim taught him Swedish folk music, traditional music, and the odd schlager.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

" It's definitely in the Swedish folk music, you can hear it in the Russian folk songs, you can hear in in the music from Jean Sibelius or Edvard Grieg from Norway, you can see it in the eyes of Greta Garbo and you can hear it in the voice of Jussi Björling.

Following the folk revivals of the second half of the 20th century, however, it has become common for less formal situations to find large groups of fiddlers playing together — see for example the Calgary Fiddlers, and Swedish Spelmanslag folk-musician clubs, and the worldwide phenomenon of Irish sessions.

In 2012, Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit released the single " Emmylou " from the album The Lion's Roar.

* The Northern Lights, the name used by Swedish folk group The Hootenanny Singers for an American LP release

* Swedish folk musician The Tallest Man on Earth released his second album The Wild Hunt on April 13, 2010.

* The Dung, percussionist and singer for the Swedish folk music duet Philemon Arthur and the Dung

Image: Swedish folk music with dancing. jpg | An orchestra playing Swedish folk music with dancers performing traditional folk dances at Stockholm City Hall on National Day 2007.

* Swedish folk music

Category: Swedish folk dances

In Swedish folk music, the quaver or eight-note polska has a similar rhythm to the mazurka, and the two dances have a common origin.

The Swedish welfare state is called Folkhemmet ( literally ; the folk home ) and goes back to the 1936 compromise between the trade unions and big companies.

Category: Swedish folk music groups

The accordion, clarinet, fiddle and nyckelharpa are among the most common Swedish folk instruments.

In the 1960s, Swedish youth sparked a roots revival in Swedish folk culture.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

* Kite ( band ), a Swedish synthpop duo

Robyn revealed on her website that her new album would be released earlier than anticipated, and noted several fabled collaborators on the album, including Klas Åhlund from Teddybears STHLM, Swedish duo The Knife and former Cheiron producer Alexander Kronlund.

* Hollywood, a 1990s female UK / Swedish electro pop duo, part of the Romo movement

* On January 9, 1993, Swedish duo Roxette became the first non-English speaking artists to perform at MTV Unplugged.

* Mohammed Ali ( duo ), a Swedish rap duo made of Moms and Alias Ruggig ( also part of Swedish hip hop collective Ayla )

song ), a 2010 debut single by the Swedish boy band duo Rebound!

Fame is a Swedish duo consisting of Jessica Andersson ( born 27 October 1973 in Stockholm ) and Magnus Bäcklund ( born 16 November 1965 in Kristinehamn, Värmland County ).

Hamlin is working on a solo album with Swedish producer duo, Montauk.

For its 25th anniversary, the radio hosts concerts of the indie Swedish band the Radio Dept., and later Eleanor Friedberger from the rock duo The Fiery Furnaces and the Welsch songwriter Euros Childs.

After that Hedlund and Walker formed the duo Svenne & Lotta, who recorded the Swedish original of the ABBA song " Bang A Boomerang ".

Rarities is a compilation album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released on 17 February 1995 in Asia and South America.

* Puss ( Swedish music duo ), a musical group which performs live bitpop

* Dive ( Swedish band ), a duo

Director Lasse Hallström made his feature-length film debut in 1975 with the comedy A Guy and a Gal ( En Kille och en tjej ) featuring the well-known Swedish comic duo Magnus Härenstam and Brasse Brännström.

Lili & Susie ( initially Lili & Sussie ) is a Swedish pop duo composed of the sisters Lili Päivärinta and Susie Päivärinta.

* Roxette, a Swedish pop duo

Although most famous for his comedic works, especially for his collaboration with the comic duo Hasseåtage on stage and in films ( where he often played the leading parts ), he has also done other things, including a series of drama / police films where he played the famous Swedish fictional policeman Martin Beck.

* Rebound !, a Swedish pop boy band duo

* The Swedish duo Taxi Taxi have recorded a sophisticated and instrumentally / vocally original yet faithful version currently available on YouTube.

* First Swedish Crusade, Second Swedish Crusade and Third Swedish Crusade

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire of the Soviet Union to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of another large scale invasion of its territory by hostile Western powers, akin to those carried out by the Swedish Empire in 1708, Napoleonic France in 1812, the Central Powers during the First World War and most recently by Nazi Germany in 1941.

In the Battle of Poltava on June 27, 1709 ( Old Style ), or July 8 ( New Style ), tsar Peter the First, commanding 34, 000 troops, defeated a Swedish army of 17, 000 troops led by Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld ( who had received the command of the army after the wounding of the Swedish king Charles XII on June 17 ).

In 1848 he supported Denmark against the Kingdom of Prussia in the First War of Schleswig ; placed Swedish and Norwegian troops in cantonments in Funen and North Schleswig ( 1849 – 1850 ); and mediated the Truce of Malmö ( 26 August 1848 ).

In November, the Russian and Swedish armies met at the First Battle of Narva where the Russians suffered a crushing defeat.

In 1957 he was elected as an Member of Parliament ( Swedish: riksdagsledamot ) represented Jönköping County in the directly-elected First Chamber ( Första kammaren ) of the Riksdag.

The interior design of the restaurant at the First Hotel in the Swedish town of Olofström is inspired by the poem.

First to open the pool was the Swedish Olympic hopeful champion from 1920, Arvid Wallman.

According to the mythology, the 12th century Swedish king Eric the Holy saw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland during the First Swedish Crusade in 1157.

* First Swedish Baptist Church

First Treaty of Brömsebro ( 1541 ) | First Treaty of Brömsebro: Christian III's meeting with Gustav I of Sweden in Brömsebro, 1541 ( watercolor reproduction of a lost painting made during the Swedish King's reign )

* Swedish Army: Sergeant, First Sergeant

According to a late 13th century legend, Erik undertook the so-called First Swedish Crusade to Finland together with the equally legendary Bishop Henry of Uppsala, conquering the country and building many churches there.

The entry into the Third Coalition in 1805, in which Sweden unsuccessfully fought its First War against Napoleon, subsequently led to the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by French troops from 1807 to 1810.

First of the three to be completed, even though she was by far the most radical in design, was Swedish engineer and inventor John Ericsson's.

It was opposed by New Zealand First who proposed the Swedish approach of criminalising the purchase of sex.

Bethlehem Baptist Church was organized as the First Swedish Baptist Church of Minneapolis in 1871.

* Första kammaren abolished upper chamber in the Swedish parliament, which also means First Chamber.