Tommy Hansson (3)

Swedish pop singer and songwriter, born June 21, 1945 in Malmö, died May 16, 2019. He was a singer and songwriter in the pop group Namelosers in Malmö 1962–1967. In Stefan Berg's and Magnus Gertten's documentary film about the group, Rolling Like a Stone (2005), Hansson also talks about the association with groups like the Rolling Stones in 1960s Malmö. They were also members of several world-renowned groups and artists such as The Who, The Kinks, Chuck Berry and more. In 1972, he played one of the apostles in the Swedish premiere of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar together with, among others, Bruno Wintzell and Agnetha Fältskog at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg and on tour. An admirer of groups such as The Beatles, he then headed to Asia hitchhiking around and learning to meditate with The Beatles' teacher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. During the early 1990s, he started a family and moved to Stockholm, where, outside of his artistic life, he worked as an airport controller and at the Swedish Immigration Service. He was living in Malmö since the beginning of the 2000s. In 2012, he participated as a singer in SVT's driving program series Den sjungande trappuppgången from the Lindängen district in Malmö.