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Congratulations to Stina, her inclusion is thoroughly well deserved.

Here's some background information of the Swedish Hall of Fame:

http://smhof.se/in-english/

Another link....its quite nice to see Stina being described as 'influential'.....

http://www.easybranches.eu/european-news/1577523.html


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The motivation of the panel, Jan Gradvall, Kersti Adams - Ray, Per Sinding - Larsen and Amethyst Azoregan (all from the Swedish media) for nominating Stina was:

The best way to make yourself heard has always been to raise your voice. When Stina Nordenstam made her debut at the start of the 1990s, she did the opposite. With her whispering style and precise compositions, she got the whole world to stop and really listen. The expression "quiet is the new loud" was coined much later, but can be traced back to Nordenstam. Nina Persson from The Cardigans has said she spent ten years trying to sing like Nordenstam. She was not alone. Hundreds of international performers have named Nordenstam as one of Their Greatest influences. Her quiet voice Reaches all around the world, to every form of art.

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If only Stina would do a Kate Bush soon.

kuhn wrote:If only Stina would do a Kate Bush soon.

Noooooooooooo, I'd much rather see Stina staying slim.

RobB wrote:The motivation of the panel, Jan Gradvall, Kersti Adams - Ray, Per Sinding - Larsen and Amethyst Azoregan (all from the Swedish media) for nominating Stina was:

The best way to make yourself heard has always been to raise your voice. When Stina Nordenstam made her debut at the start of the 1990s, she did the opposite. With her whispering style and precise compositions, she got the whole world to stop and really listen. The expression "quiet is the new loud" was coined much later, but can be traced back to Nordenstam.

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They obviously forgot about Dynamite, The Diver etc when writing this

Something for Swedes and tourists:

The permanent Hall of Fame exhibition is said to open the 20th of March and the chosen artists will be honored with tribute concerts during the year.

STRMBRG wrote:The permanent Hall of Fame exhibition is said to open the 20th of March and the chosen artists will be honored with tribute concerts during the year.

I wonder how honored Stina will feel when she see's her tribute act?

Yes, it's hard to even imagine how they will solve that. Some of the recipients will perform at their own concerts, but I guess that both Stina and ABBA will say no.

I'll keep watch and report here when more details are revealed.

Ah, I misunderstood your message and assumed you meant that all the acts at the tribute concert would be 'tribute acts'.

But yes, it seems highly unlikely that Stina (or Abba) would appear if invited. I suppose Stina could send a filmed 3D image of herself performing for screening on the stage?

I'd be content if she just sits there in the audience, but a hologram would be nice.

Here's a rough translation of what they write on another place on their website:

The Concerts will be performed with the recipients themselves or by other artists as interpretation concerts.


(Off topic... I have a new old article to upload but it seems that the board quota is filled again. Could someone, maybe Alex, help me out?)

I take it you mean the Orkesterjournalen article you mention in another post-that would be great. I recently found an online article about jazz singing in Sweden that drew on the article, but would love to read the whole thing.
Alex please help!
and by the way I'm getting funny things happening when I try to post anything:-

-either it gets posted twice and I get a message saying 'you might want to review your post in the light of another post recently made' (ie the same one I just made )

or
''the server was down while you made your message' (or something similar)-but my post goes through anyway?? (twice!)

sound world wrote:and by the way I'm getting funny things happening when I try to post anything

Same here for the last week or so although the message always seems to get posted first time so nothing had been duplicated.

More often than not,when I post a message there's a 'No Data Received' box appear and if you click on the 'more' box underneath, I get the message "Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data blah blah blah' followed by a ERROR CODE: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE message.

STRMBRG wrote:The permanent Hall of Fame exhibition is said to open the 20th of March and the chosen artists will be honored with tribute concerts during the year.

Did anyone hear anything about a tribute act performing Stina's music last year?

The website (http://smhof.se/konsert/) says that more information about the tribute concerts will be announced soon. That was more than a year ago, so I guess it's another example of us waiting at a Stina related "coming soon"-sign.