Carli Tornehave

Carli Tornehave
Carli Tornehave
Born	26 August 1932; Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Schlager
Occupation(s)	Singer; actor
Years active	1950s-

Carli Tornehave (born 26 August 1932, in Stockholm), is a Swedish singer and actor.^[1]

He has participated at Melodifestivalen six times; in 1962 he performed Anneli and När min vän, in 1963 he performed Twist till menuett and En gång i Stockholm. The song "En gång i Stockholm" won the contest, but Monica Zetterlund was appointed to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in London.^[2] In 1966, he performed Monte Carlo and Härliga söndag ending on second and eighth place respectively.

Famous Carli Tornehave songs[edit]

Hård stad (Rough Road by Lee Hazlewood) – 1961
Angelique
Den enda i världen
En natt i Moskva
Lykkeliten
Gotländsk sommarnatt
Monte Carlo
När min vän kommer tillbaka (with Monica Zetterlund)
Under ekars djupa grönska
Mexican Shuffle

Filmography[edit]

1961 – Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner
1962 – Raggargänget
1964 – Wild West Story
1965 – För vänskaps skull as the singer
1968 – Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult
1978 – Dante - akta're för Hajen!

References[edit]

^ The Gramophone – 1960– 38 p273 "Tornehave is a singer of real quality, even if his work does reflect that of his idol, Frank Sinatra. Britain would be hard put to produce a vocalist of Carli's equal and I hope we may be allowed to hear more of this artist in the future"
^ Ulf Lind (24 August 2012). "Carli Tornehave firar 80 och 60" (in Swedish). Helsingborgs dagblad. Retrieved 30 September 2017.

[1] The Gramophone – 1960– 38 p273 "Tornehave is a singer of real quality, even if his work does reflect that of his idol, Frank Sinatra. Britain would be hard put to produce a vocalist of Carli's equal and I hope we may be allowed to hear more of this artist in the future"

[2] Ulf Lind (24 August 2012). "Carli Tornehave firar 80 och 60" (in Swedish). Helsingborgs dagblad. Retrieved 30 September 2017.

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