Totta Näslund

Totta Näslund

Torsten "Totta" Erik Näslund (April 1, 1945June 19, 2005) was a Swedish rock and blues musician, with leftist political views.

He was born in Sandviken and grew up in the small northern town Köpmanholmen, but moved to Gothenburg in 1970 to find work. He was working in the Gothenburg docks when he joined Nynningen, a rock group with leftist political texts and inspired by the Russian Communist poet Mayakovsky. Totta Näslund became the group's main singer.

In the mid-1970s, Nynningen fused with Nationalteatern, a musical theater ensemble with many members. Totta Näslund joined the group as singer, guitar-player and actor. Nationalteatern developed away from the theater and became a straight rock group, a "rock orchestra" as they called themselves. Even though Totta never wrote any own songs for the band, he was probably the most prominent member, next to Ulf Dageby.

Nationalteatern was one of the many leftist music and theater groups that came together in 1977 to form Tältprojektet, "The Tent Project", a musical theater performance on the history of the Swedish working class, which toured the country that summer. Totta Näslund played "the Beggar", the central story telling character of the play, and he sang some of the lead songs, like "Aldrig mera krig" (Never War Again) and "Vi äro tusenden" (We are legion). Tältprojekted, a non-profit making experiment financed by its members and supporters, was highly successful.

In the beginning of the 1980s, Nationalteatern dissolved and Totta Näslund directed his full energy to his hobby project, "Totta's Bluesband" with lyrics in English and several smaller tours in the U.S..

In 1995, when Totta turned 50 years old, he decided to go for a solo career and has released 8 solo albums with mostly songs written directly for him by other artists, or covers of other songs.

One of Totta Näslund's main sources for inspirations was Bob Dylan, and in May 2005 he went to Dylan's hometown Hibbing, Minnesota despite his lethal cancer, where he performed his own interpretation of Bob Dylan songs. Totta had also started making an album together with Mikael Wiehe, with Dylan songs translated to Swedish, but this was interrupted when he suddenly died.

Totta Näslund died June 19, 2005 of liver cancer. He was scheduled to perform in his hometown Köpmanholmen the next day. He was 60 years old.

Discography (a selection)

With Nationalteatern

*1974 - "Livet är en fest"
*1976 - "Kåldolmar och kalsipper"
*1978 - "Barn av vår tid"
*1980 - "Rövarkungens ö"
*1987 - "Peter Pan"

With Tottas Bluesband
*1981 - "Live at Renströmska"
*1983 - "Saturday night boogie woogie"
*1985 - "Combination boogie"
*1988 - "Compilation boogie (1981–1986)"
*2003 - "Sitting on top of the world"

Solo

*1995 - "Totta"
*1996 - "Totta 2 - Hjärtats slutna rum"
*1999 - "Totta 3 - En dåre som jag"
*2001 - "Totta 4 - Duetterna"
*2002 - "Totta 5 - Turnén"
*2002 - "Totta 6 - Bortom månen & mars"
*2004 - "Totta 7 - Soul på drift"
*2005 - "Totta 8 - Greatest Hits - Bättre begagnat"
*2006 - "Totta & Wiehe - Dylan", posthumous, songs by Bob Dylan translated to Swedish, together with Mikael WieheHe is not campared to Markus Naslund

Filmography

*Vildängel (1997) (film)
*Blueprint (1992) (mini-series)
*Som man ropar (1987) (TV series)
*Taxibilder (1984) (mini-series)
*Tryggare kan ingen vara (1984) (TV series)

External links

* [http://www.nationalteatern.nu/ Nationalteatern] official internet page
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638999/ IMDb]


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