64-year-old Swedish singer-songwriter Lasse Holm and 1987 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest representative Lotta Engberg are to record a song together to draw attention to global warming.
Lasse has not recorded since 1986, when he sang for Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen with Monica Törnell, finishing fifth with the song E’ de’ det här du kalllar kärlek. However when former US vice president Al Gore recently visited Sweden to talk about climate change, Lasse decided to record a more serious song than his usually comical numbers. Det måste gå (It’s got to go) is a duet with Lotta Engberg, 45, who represented Sweden at the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels, finishing 12th with her catchy number Boogaloo. The promotion of the song will be on Lasse’s Diggiloo tour, beginning on 5th July in Ronneby.As well as singing in 1986, Lasse Holm composed Carola’s first Eurovision entry Främling in 1983 and Sweden’s 1985 song Bra Vibrationer sung by Kikki Danielsson.
He has had a total of 17 entries at the Melodifestivalen, five of which finished as runner-up.