Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joakim Berg, Kent's singer and songwriter, strutted around the stage doing a Swedish version of the funky chicken, which involved puffing out his chest, slapping it with one palm and draping the microphone cord around his neck. Berg clearly enjoyed playing to a receptive, albeit unknown, crowd. Not one to miss a chance to connect with the audience, he dedicated the song "Elvis" to an enthusiastic fan who was wearing an enormous pair of ski goggles. Kent is an incredibly talented, charismatic band-hopefully they are only tasting the beginning of their overseas success...
...Cardigans split their set about evenly between songs from the new album and the older, effervescent singles. Lead singer Nina Persson, fetchingly attired in black tanktop and leather pants, delivered the band's tongue-in-cheek takes on modern love with charming, faux naivete. Flanked on either side by guitarist Peter Svensson and keyboardist Lars-Olaf Johnasson, The Cardigans were an interesting triptych to watch: Svensson dancing about his red guitar, Persson doing her catwoman-thing with the mic stand and Johansson good-humoredly adding the dark swatches of soundscape...
...1950s, Singer discovered that there was simply no philosophy concerning the modern conception of love; instead, there was just a span of historical perspectives beginning with the ideas of Plato to the "anti-romantic romantics," Kirekegard and Nietzche...
...Everyone told me it would ruin my career," he recalls. Singer began to formulate his own ideas on the philosophy of love: "I was very annoyed with it at first because I was writing analytically, but through the history of the philosophy, I was developing my own ideas." Singer's philosophy of love provides no easy answers. His Pursuit of Love offers neither hints towards a successful love life nor a methodology for amorous involvement...
...Singer's recent work has gone beyond the idea of love to question the meaning in life, a subject he holds "closer to [his] heart...