Lasse Dahlquist

Who was Lasse Dahlquist?

Lars Erik Dahlquist was a Swedish composer, singer and actor. He was married to Inez Margareta Dahlquist, née Lindquist from 1936 and they had a son; the saxophonist Robert "Bob" Dahlquist. On Saltholmen, at the terminal of the boats of Styrsjöbolaget, there is a place called Lasse Dahlquists Plats.

When he was a child, during the summers he was at his grandfather's farm Langegården on Brännö where he built his own home. He worked at Sven-Olof Sandberg's music publishment Svenska Noter and 1931 he bagan recording gramophone records. In 1977 he received the Evert Taube award.