Anders Falk

Swedish musician, singer, songwriter and landscape architect, born April 15, 1949 in Stockholm. He is known as a member of the duo Adolphson & Falk. Anders Falk formed his first pop band, The Human Beings, together with three schoolmates. At the age of 15, Falk began writing his own songs. The artist Donovan came to Uppsala University's auditorium in 1966 and Anders Falk was inspired to become a singer / songwriter and during high school Falk played for the first time on stage in front of an audience. Another of Falk's idols was Bob Dylan. In 1968, Falk did his military sevices as a signalman at FRA (Försvarets Radioanstalt). There he met Tomas Adolphson from Uppsala and they started playing and writing songs together. At the beginning of 1969, the duo was moved to Eksjö and had to live in their own apartment, which was transformed into a simple but functional demo recording studio. Anders Falk and Tomas Adolphson's apartment and military sevices buddy Uffe Eriksson became a recording technician and the band's photographer. When they left the military sevices, they had made 14 of their own recorded songs. After the military sevices, Falk started his education in landscape architecture in Lund. He joined the student union orchestra Spenkopparna and together the ensemble recorded a vinyl single with Anders Falk's composition Mamma Rag as A-side. Anders Falk works as a landscape architect at Grontmij. He received the Siena Prize in 2007 for the transformation of Vasaparken in Stockholm.