Evert Taube

Evert Taube Swedish pronunciation160 160 was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Swedens most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century.

Evert Taube was born in 1890 in Gothenburg, and brought up on the island of Vinga, Vstergtland, where his father, Carl Gunnar Taube, a ships captain, was the lighthouse keeper. His mother was Julia Sofia Jacobsdotter. Taube belongs to an untitled branch of the Baltic German noble Taube family, introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility in 1668 as noble family No. 734.

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