Anders Henriksson

Swedish producer, musician, songwriter and arranger from Stockholm, known as Henkan, born 26 May 1945 in Stockholm, died 4 December 2016. Early on, he was considered to be a musical wonder child. He practiced piano and attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School and Sveriges Radio's Music School. After studying at the music conservatory in Heidelberg and under professor Hans Leygraf, he got a job at the record company EMI in charge of the classic record releases. One day a producer was missing at EMI, so they asked Henkan to stand in and produce modern pop music. In the early 1960s he was a band member of Marianne & the Boys and an early edition of Mascots that he later came to produce. The music industry career accelerated in the 1960s when he worked as technician, musician, singer, songwriter and producer of songwriters and musicians to bands such as Shanes, The Red Squares, Horanges fom Dalecarlia, Mascots, Tom & Mick & Maniacs, Hounds and others. From August 1965 and the single "The one for you" Tages and Henkan was an inseparable team. Singles such as the "Miss Mac Bar" and "Every raindrop mean a lot" had Henkan's signature. With the help of Henkan, Tages released the albums "Extra Extra", "Contrast" and "Studio". In 1967 he had a total of 27 Swedish number one list hits, with Tages or other bands. At this time, he also produced Annaabee-Nox and Science Poption. As a songwriter, Henkan collaborated with Thorstein Bergman and wrote songs under the pseudonym F Akon, often single B-sides to Tages, Mascots and Shanes. In the late 60's, he was a studio musician on Agnetha Fältskog's first LP. In 1969 George Martin recruited him to the Abbey Road team of technicians and producers, where he stayed for almost three years until 1972. In 1970, he produced [m56897]. Uncredited, he wrote musical notes for songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, contributed to their single [m119802], played piano on [m90116] (produced by Barry Gibb) and sang backing vocals on Elton John's "Take Me To The Pilot". His last production at Abbey Road was [m500199] in 1971. At the same time, he continued to produce albums in Sweden with artists such as Björn Skifs, Janne Lucas Persson and Peter Lundblad and Anders F Rönnblom (the single Anders & Nicko - "Down By The Seaside" in 1965 and the albums "Din Barndom Skall Aldrig Dö", "Ramlösa Kvarn"), the Swedish trio Life (16) (1970). The big studio group Baltik was Henkan's creation with singers and musicians from both Sweden and England, recorded the album "Baltik" (1973). He performed in music projects such as Sommarfilosoferna (1970) and Ablution (1974) During the 70's he produced albums with artists such as Björn J: son Lindh, Bernt Staf, Scafell Pike, Paul Paljett and Py Bäckman . In 1975 he started his collaboration with Magnus Uggla. Together they have written many of Uggla's songs like "Varning på stan", "4 sekunder", "Jag mår illa" and "Kung för en dag". Both worked together from 1975 onwards. In 1980, he produced Håkan Hagegård sjunger Olle Adolphson and Romantiken E' Död. During the 80's there was a lot of dance band-related music on his conscience, like Vargtass, often released by Mariann Records in Skara. But his name also featured on legendary albums like Reeperbahns album "Venuspassagen" which he mixed, and then he produced Dan Sundqvist & Prince Valiant's album 1983. He has made several contributions to the Melodifestivalen, and has been the chapel master on three occasions. He was also a chapel master on the Måndagsbörsen TV show and has made over 250 television programs. Together with Coste Apetrea he composed the theme song for "Björnes magasin" and many other film and advertisement music, including the jingle to the Ski World Cup in Falun 1993, based on "Hjortnäslåten". Together with Björn Skifs he made a song for Leksand IF. The news about Anders Henkan Henriksson's death was published on December 5, 2016. He became 71 years old. In Swedish media, he has been wrongly attributed as engineer on [m436] and associated acts. Those credits belong to English sound engineer Andy Hendriksen, who is a different person.