Mats Rådberg | |
Landscape: | Mats Rådberg appearing at Sommarkrysset in 2008 |
Birth Date: | 1948 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Genre: | country |
Occupation: | Singer, musician, composer, architect |
Instrument: | guitar |
Years Active: | 1969–2020 |
Associated Acts: | Rankarna, Chips, Elisabeth Andreassen |
Mats Rådberg (8 June 1948 – 27 June 2020)[1] was a Swedish country singer,[2] guitarist, composer and architect scoring several chart successes in Sweden during the 1970s/80s. He is well known for working together with the country band Rankarna under the name Mats Rådberg & Rankarna. He also participated at Melodifestivalen 1977 with the song "Du och jag och sommaren", written by Tomas Ledin, which ended up 10th.
Rådberg also acted as a background singer behind Chips at Melodifestivalen 1980. In 1980, he released the album I'm the Singer, You're the Song together with Elisabeth Andreasson, and in 1983 he scored a hit with the song Peta in en pinne i brasan, a Swedish-language version of Shel Silverstein's Put Another Log on the Fire.