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Merit Hemmingson
12+ albums
swedishfolkjazzscandinavianHammond
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Born 30 August 1940, Merit Hemmingson is a Swedish organist, composer and singer. She became nationally known in the late 1960s for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music. Already in the mid-1950s, Merit Hemmingson played piano in various jazz-influenced dance orchestras in Jämtland. After graduating from wargentinskolan in Östersund, she moved to Stockholm in 1959 and played there often at Nalen. After a trip to the United States, she formed her own quintet, Merit H. and her Girl Stars, with four African-American female musicians who came back to Sweden. By the mid-1960s, she switched entirely to Hammond organ and led the Orchestra of Meritones. In 1971, the album Huvva! – Swedish folk music on beat was released, where she mixed Swedish folk music with rock music and her own wordless humming. The album received a lot of attention and was followed by Trollskog (1972) and Bergtagen (1974), her trilogy in Swedish folk music. During the same period, the album Det for två vita duvor (1973) was recorded in Vikens kapell, Frostviken parish, in collaboration with Beppe Wolgers. During the 1970s, she wrote music for a number of TV films. [1] She was on the jury for Melodifestivalen 1972. Over the years, she has collaborated with Gloria Lundell, harp, and Maritza Horn, vocals, in the album Orgel, harpa och horn (1983), Anita Strandell and pan flutist Dana Dragomir. In the autumn of 2002, she entered Svensktoppen with "Ack du min längtan" with Ola Magnell at the microphon
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