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Östen Warnerbring - "Som En Dröm"

looic28 June 2024Last Updated: 24 March 2025

Östen Warnerbring

Birth Name: Warnerbring, Jan Östen Hartvig
Nationality: Sweden
Born: 1934-11-22 (72 years old)
Birth Place: Malmö
Died: 2006-01-18
Music Genre: classic swedish pop, skansk musik, vintage swedish pop

Östen Warnerbring (22 November 1934 – 18 January 2006), also known as Östen med Rösten (lit. "Östen with the Voice"), was a Swedish singer, musician, composer, and lyrics writer who mastered several musical genres. He started as a jazz musician but over the years, he became known as a singer of other popular music, such as schlager music, and of Swedish poetry put into music by himself. In the 1970s, he became one of the first Swedish artists to use his native accent, of the province of Scania (Skåne) in the south of Sweden, also while singing.