Anne Kalmering

The Swedish singer Anne Kalmering performs.
Anne Kalmering performs in 2018.

Anne Kalmering Josephson (born 1962) is a Swedish singer who also works in television and radio. From a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish background, Kalmering performs music influenced by various Jewish musical traditions, including klezmer and Sephardic music.

Biography

Anne Kalmering was born in 1962 in Sweden, into a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish family.[1][2] She began her involvement in traditional Jewish music as a child,[3] and went on to study at the Teaterstudion [sv] drama school in Stockholm.[4]

Kalmering performs songs from both the Ashkenazi and Sephardic musical traditions, singing in Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew.[1][3][5][6] She is one of Scandinavia's most popular performers of Jewish music,[1][2] and one of the most prominent voices for Jewish culture in Sweden.[7]

As a singer, she regularly performs alongside the musician Hayati Kafe [sv] and the group Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic, among others.[1][5] In 2019, she worked with Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic to produce the album Vayter.[2] In 2020, they were nominated for an award at the Swedish Folk & World Music Gala [sv].[8]

Kalmering also performs in schools and leads a youth choir, Kum Zing Mit Undz ("Come Sing With Us").[1][7][9] In addition to her music, she works as a radio and TV presenter and host, with Sveriges Radio P1 airing her show Thoughts for the Day [sv].[1][3]

Discography

  • Ot Azoy ("Just So," 2000)
  • Vilda Nätter ("Wild Nights," 2003)
  • Vayter ("Farther," 2019, with Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Anne Kalmering". WOMEX. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  2. ^ a b c "Kurzrezensionen". Folker (in German). No. 2. 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  3. ^ a b c "Anne Kalmering Josephson - Tankar för dagen". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  4. ^ "Judisk festival 2015". Teater Albatross (in Swedish). 26 June 2015. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  5. ^ a b "Jiddisch – språket som överlevde". Nordegren & Epstein i P1 (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  6. ^ Schmidt-Hirschfelder, Katharina (2015-08-31). "Elche, Trolle, Klezmer". Jüdische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  7. ^ a b Schmidt-Hirschfelder, Katharina (2014-08-25). "Kalte Heimat". Jüdische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  8. ^ "De kan få pris på Folk & Världsmusikgalan". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  9. ^ "Förintelsens minnesdag på Raoul Wallenbergs torg". Forum för levande historia (in Swedish). 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2021-04-13.