Beda Hallberg beats out Gessle in museum contest
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson on March 1, 2004 to Per Gessle.
HALMSTAD - Beda Hallberg, the woman who came up with the idea almost a hundred years ago of selling small paper flowers on May Day to raise funds to fight tuburculosis, was declared the ’Halland Resident of All Time’ last night in a contest in which Per Gessle had also been a finalist. The contest, sponsored by the Museum of Halmstad, was designed to draw attention to a special exhibition that opened yesterday.
This museum is the very same that will mount the Gyllene Tider exhibition this summer.
Other articles with the same topic
- New Per Gessle single "Silly Really" (October 6, 2008)
- More than 100 million SEK to Swedish songwriters (June 16, 2008)
- Per enters Swedish album chart (May 25, 2008)
- The word according to Gessle (May 14, 2008)
- Movie with Gessle song wins top award at New York film festival (May 6, 2008)
21 comments
Judith (moderator) said on March 1, 2004 15:01:
“per should get a price of best swedish artist instead...” >>
that would be going too far I think ;)
frodi said on March 1, 2004 18:37:
“why? Per is the best swedish artist....”
really? i like his music and all that, but it is all about taste. kent, cardigans, ABBA, the ark and others are great musicians too.
daniel_alv said on March 1, 2004 18:38:
per and marie is the only ones in Sweden that had 4 US # 1’s....
so the only one to compete with them is ABBA....
Judith (moderator) said on March 1, 2004 18:48:
well getting number ones in the US doesn’t mean you are the best.. erh.. take a look at the other number ones and you will see why :P
And repeating Vix: is he? ;)
daniel_alv said on March 1, 2004 19:31:
it’s only 4 swedes that have been no. 1 in the Us, and that’s the biggest thing you can do in the music buissiness...
The only two who can fight about the title best swedish artist is Roxette and ABBA...
And Roxette has done many things that ABBA has not.... Roxette was a lot bigger then ABBA in the US.... So I think Roxette is the winner...
Vixzter said on March 2, 2004 06:36:
Having a US #1 single makes you the best Swedish artist ;) LOL
For once Mr Gessle didn’t win something and ppls wanna give him something else ;)
I’m sure Per is happy with it, he was flattered to even be nominated.
He can’t win everything ;) and I’m sure he will win plenty more to make up for it ;P
Vixzter said on March 2, 2004 17:11:
I don’t know enough about Swedish music to comment on that.
misdreavus said on March 2, 2004 19:14:
I don’t think that you can say somebody is best at music - it’s all about taste! Even if you’re popular it doesn’t mean you’re good/best it just means that a lot of people like the music, and it doesn’t even have to be good to be popular (in my opinion). :P
lucre_gt said on March 3, 2004 02:50:
Per is a man of the world .... not only Halland!
daniel_alv said on March 1, 2004 14:16:
I agree... To help sick people is better than make music...
per should get a price of best swedish artist instead...
Log in to reply