Anders Forsslund

Swedish singer and musician, born 5 September 1946 in Bromma. He sings and plays double bass and accordion and has been a member of the Swedish pop group The Mascots and the theater group Fria Proteatern. At Christmas 1989, he was the host of the Christmas morning program Midvinterbio, where he played the overwintered rocker Andy Vincent, who worked on his mother's motorcycle, played bass and sang for example Blackberry Way and Blueberry Hill in Swedish, and told stories about how rock in Norra Ängsbyn came to be, or about Göte who promised not to play the piano for a year. He has worked with musical theater and cabaret, including the acclaimed Owe Thörnqvist cavalcade Svartbäcken's rose at Uppsala City Theater. Anders Forsslund hosted the radio program Sommar on July 26, 1984. In 2005 he released the CD album Rävsteg. On his 75th birthday, 2021, he released the CD album Slavisk dans. Anders Forsslund is active in, among others, FJK, the Swedish Luxury Orchestra, Gladpack, Tvenne and Handklaver and Basfiol. He is educated at the Stage School and at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and has worked as a music teacher on Svartsö in the Stockholm archipelago. There he also leads the Psalm Orchestra, which performs three times a year since 2002 and attracts a huge audience on the island.