Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg (10 June 1926 4 May 2010) was a Swedish
singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career
spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed
away at the end of the 1960s. However, she was still an active actress
in the 1980s. Borg represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
1959 in Cannes.Borg was born on Sdermalm in Stockholm and began her
career in the Sdermalm-based variety show group Vrat gng ("Our Gang")
after having won a song competition organised by the magazine
Vecko-Revyn in 1943. In 1945, she formed the quartet Flickery Flies
with Allan Johansson, whom she later married. In 1947, she began her
long collaboration with famous Swedish variety performer and writer
Povel Ramel. She participated in his radio program Fyra kring en
flygel ("Four around a grand piano") and was the prima donna of
several versions of the Knppupp variety show between 1952 and
1962.Amongst her most famous numbers were Fat Mammy Brown, where she
played an African-American jazz/gospel singer in blackface and fat
padding, the tango Banne mej from the variety musical Funny Boy, where
she played the seductive Gypsy girl Zamora, and Ulliga krulliga
gubbar, a satirical Dixieland ballad about the fashionableness of
beards. When the prolific comedy duo Hans Alfredson and Tage
Danielsson were writing for Knppupp they provided her with songs such
as Alla kan ju inte lska alla hr i vrlden ("Everyone can't love
everyone"), Aldrig har jag sett en rak banana ("I've Never Seen a
Straight Banana"), and Du r min tekopp ("You are my teacup"). In 1962,
she reached the peak of her career as a variety show artist with the
number Die Borg, parodying Swedish singers who made a career by
catering to German audiences.
singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career
spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed
away at the end of the 1960s. However, she was still an active actress
in the 1980s. Borg represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
1959 in Cannes.Borg was born on Sdermalm in Stockholm and began her
career in the Sdermalm-based variety show group Vrat gng ("Our Gang")
after having won a song competition organised by the magazine
Vecko-Revyn in 1943. In 1945, she formed the quartet Flickery Flies
with Allan Johansson, whom she later married. In 1947, she began her
long collaboration with famous Swedish variety performer and writer
Povel Ramel. She participated in his radio program Fyra kring en
flygel ("Four around a grand piano") and was the prima donna of
several versions of the Knppupp variety show between 1952 and
1962.Amongst her most famous numbers were Fat Mammy Brown, where she
played an African-American jazz/gospel singer in blackface and fat
padding, the tango Banne mej from the variety musical Funny Boy, where
she played the seductive Gypsy girl Zamora, and Ulliga krulliga
gubbar, a satirical Dixieland ballad about the fashionableness of
beards. When the prolific comedy duo Hans Alfredson and Tage
Danielsson were writing for Knppupp they provided her with songs such
as Alla kan ju inte lska alla hr i vrlden ("Everyone can't love
everyone"), Aldrig har jag sett en rak banana ("I've Never Seen a
Straight Banana"), and Du r min tekopp ("You are my teacup"). In 1962,
she reached the peak of her career as a variety show artist with the
number Die Borg, parodying Swedish singers who made a career by
catering to German audiences.
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