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Lasse Holm
Holm in 2014
Born Lars-Eric Gustav Holm (1943-12-09) 9 December 1943 (age 82)Stockholm, Sweden
Other name Larry Moon
Occupations Singer songwriter television host
Years active 1959–present
Musical career
Genres Dansband pop rock schlager
Instruments Vocals piano
Musical artist

Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm (born 9 December 1943) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and television host.

Holm has also hosted and appeared in several television shows.

Since childhood, he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: Doug and the Millsmen, The Spacemen and The Moonlighters.

Holm and singer Monica Törnell represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song "E' de' det här du kallar kärlek".

Holm is best known as a schlager composer. During the 1980s, he was a songwriter for Chips and country band Mats Rådberg & Rankarna. Holm often collaborated with Ingela 'Pling' Forsman

Holm has, by himself or in collaboration with others, written five winning songs in the Swedish Melodifestivalen: "Dag efter dag" by (Chips, 1982), "Främling" (Carola Häggkvist, 1983), "Bra vibrationer" by (Kikki Danielsson, 1985), "E' de' det här du kallar kärlek" (a duet by Holm and Monica Törnell, 1986) and "Eloise" by (Arvingarna, 1993).

Lasse Holm was (along with ABBA, Kiss, Prince) highlighted as an inspiration when Max Martin accepted the 2016 Polar Music Prize.[1]

Holm has hosted a number of Swedish TV shows such as Sikta mot stjärnorna broadcast on TV4, Pictionary and Diggiloo broadcast on SVT.

  1. ^ "Max Martin", polarmusicprize.org, 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.