Austin Jenckes - Its a Great Day To Be Alive (The Voice Performance)

TOB, Taube Evert (12 III 1890, Vinga, near Gothenburg - 31 I 1976, Stockholm) - Swedish singer, composer, music. folklorist, poet and prose writer. Specialist. musesdid not receive education. The successor of the Swedes. troubadour 18 century K. M. Belman, T. composed songs on his own. texts used by the Swede recorded by him. Narmelodies and melodies of other peoples. Antique and modern. Narballads and songs compiled by T. were published in 1948 by the Friends of the Songs Society, one of the founders of which was T. Among Op. T. - epic ballads. and drum. character, genre scenes, serenades, idyllic. landscape sketches and others. production(including prosaic) are associated with the romance of sea wanderings (T. sailed a sailor) and exotic South. America (lived in Argentina in 1911-15). Some songs use lat.-amer. dance rhythms, incl. tango, in others - waltz, polka, polska. Songs of T. (over 200, including Waltz in Furussund, Fridtjof and Carmensita, Dance in Sunnanyo) were published in many others. collections, including released in 1961, 1965, 1967.