Hanne Juul

Hanne Juul was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1950. She took the music student and traveled to Iceland in 1969. There began her career as a singer and Hanne, in collaboration with Icelandic musicians, initiated the Visan's Friends: "Visnavinir". After 9 years she moved with husband and two children back to Sweden in 1977. In 1979 Hanne Juul and Musica Nostra, an Icelandic duo, became this year's newcomers in Västervik. She then continued to tour and work for Rikskonserter and other concert organizers in the Nordic countries, Germany and Holland, alone or in different constellations with string quartets, blues queens and other singers, such as Margareta Kjellberg, Sid Jansson, Öyvind Sund and others. In 1980, Hanne made a series of children's programs for TV that became the starting point for many years of touring throughout the Nordic region with children's shows about Nordic sagas, fairy tales and songs. Hanne has for many years also had a show program in Radio Väst. As a singer in Nåid within the techno genre, Hanne has performed at the festivals in Roskilde and Hultsfred and at the Stockholm Water Festival. In 1993, Hanne began to teach part-time at the Nordiska Visskolan in Kungälv, Sweden, a school she initiated and participated in in 1987. She still conducts a large part of her work as a stage artist and educator alongside her work as a leader of the Nordiska Visskolan.