Bo hansson kompositör

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Bo Hansson

For those of a similar name, see Bo Hanson (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Bo Hansson (10 April – 23 April )^[1] was a Swedishmusician best known for his four instrumental progressive rock studio albums released throughout the s.

Early life and musical career

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Hansson spent his early life in a remote village in the pine forests of northern Sweden, but a change in his parents' fortunes forced a move to Stockholm and they were forced to leave the young Hansson behind, in the care of family friends. As a teenager he joined his parents in Stockholm, where he soon became interested in the burgeoning rock and roll scene and taught himself to play the guitar, before joining the band Rock-Olga.

After the rock and roll craze gave way to jazz and blues in the late fifties, he joined 'Slim Notini's Blues Gang' as a guitarist. Hansson was able to move on and form his own blues group The Merrymen, who supported The Rolling Stones on an early Scandinavian tour.

In , Hansson saw American jazz organist Jack McDuff perform at Stockholm's Gyllene Cirkeln Club, and was so captivated by the performance that he decided to leave The Merrymen to expand his mus

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Bo Hansson (April 10, – April 23, ) was a Swedish keyboardist and composer best known for his skiva Sagan angående Ringen, released internationally as Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings. He first achieved national fame in the organ-psych duo Hansson & Karlsson.

Background, Early Career

He was born Bo Ingemar Gunnar Hansson in Stockholm and spent his early years in a remote by in Sweden&#;s northern pine forests. After a forced separation from his parents due to family finances, he reunited with them as a teenager in Stockholm, where he took to the capitol&#;s first wave of rock n&#; roll. He first played guitar and scored one of his earliest in gigs in &#;Slim Notini&#;s Blues Gang, a founding Swedish R&B group.

In , Hansson formed the R&B/beat group The Merrymen, which opened for the Rolling Stones on their first Scandinavian tour. The Merrymen cut two singles on Karusell: &#;Walking Down Lonesome Road&#; (b/w &#;Spider&#;) and &#;Searchin'&#; (b/w &#;Understand&#;). On the latter, they&#;re identified as The Merrymen With Boz, the &#;Boz&#; in question being a young Boz Scaggs, who busked in Sweden that year and even cut an skiva for the local marknad.

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Bo Hansson
born: 10 March
country: Sweden
Born in Kalmar, Bo Hansson sang as a treble in his local church choir, going on to study guitar at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, graduating in By he was teaching guitar and chamber music at S&#;dra Latins Gymnasium in Stockholm, a secondary school specializing in the training of future professional musicians. With the conductor Gary Graden he also developed composition workshops with children. His professional career has been varied and wide-ranging. As a guitarist he often works in collaboration with other artists, particularly the Dutch guitar player Eric Lammers in the &#;Lammers and Hansson Guitar Duo&#;. He is also interested in combining guitar and voice and for many years was a singer, guitarist and arranger for &#;Skogsfiol och fl&#;jt&#; a well-known group in Sweden. For a number of years he wrote choral arrangements of folk and popular songs, often with a role for the guitar. At the age of thirty-five Hansson became increasingly interested in musical composition and took some private lessons from Swedish composer Johan Hammerth. A desire to write in a more contemporary classical style ensued and led to the cho