Name: | Evert Taube |
Occupation: | Unclassified |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | March 12, 1890 |
Death Date: | January 31, 1976 |
Age: | Aged 86 |
Country: | Sweden |
Zodiac Sign: | Pisces |
Evert Taube
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Evert Taube was born in 1890 in Gothenburg, and brought up on the island of Vinga, Västergötland, where his father, Carl Gunnar Taube, a ship’s captain, was the lighthouse keeper. His mother was Julia Sofia Jacobsdotter. Taube belongs to an untitled branch of the Baltic German noble Taube family, introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility in 1668 as noble family No. 734.
Having spent two years (1907–1909) sailing around the Red Sea, Ceylon and South Africa, Taube began his career as a singer-songwriter and collector of sailors’ songs, and on Christmas Eve 1908, on board the Norwegian ship SS Bergen headed for Spain, he performed “Turalleri, piken fra Hamburg”.
In 1925, he married Astri Bergman Taube, a painter and sculptress.
On his 60th birthday in 1950, Taube received the Bellman Award from the Swedish Academy and in 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University. He was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1970.
Taube had a summer house called Sjösala, located in Stavsnäs, which was burned down by Mona Wallén-Hjerpe in 1969.
In 1976 he released an album of songs (on SR Records) about and by Sweden’s 18th century bard, Carl Michael Bellman, performing 9 of Bellman’s Fredman’s Epistles including the ever popular Vila vid denna källa, Ulla! min Ulla! säj, får jag dig bjuda, and Solen glimmar blank och trind.
Taube is regarded as one of the finest troubadours in Sweden. There is a complete pavilion, “Evert Taube’s World” opened in 2008, dedicated to him at Liseberg Theme Park in Gothenburg.
On 25 March 2010, Norwegian Air Shuttle’s (Norwegian.com) new Boeing 737-8FZ LN-NOV (msn 31713) was accepted at the Oslo (Gardermoen) base with the tail image of Evert Taube.
On 6 April 2011, the Bank of Sweden announced that Taube’s portrait will feature on the 50 kronor banknote, beginning in 2014–15.
On 12 March 2013, a Google doodle was dedicated to him.
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