Oskar Linnros pays tribute to
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Oskar Linnros pays tribute to Ted Gärdestad in Melodifestivalen

This year, Ted Gärdestad would have turned 70, and it will be celebrated in the fourth round of Melodifestivalen in Malmö with a special interlude. Artist Oskar Linnros will perform an interpretation of one of Gärdestad's most famous songs, "The Sky Is Innocently Blue".

"Ted Gärdestad's 'Himlen är oskyldigt blå' is one of the best Swedish songs I've heard. It gave birth to the love of blue-eyed soul in me even as a brown-eyed teenager," says Linnros in a press release.

According to SVT, the artist's interpretation will be something the audience "has never seen before."

Ted Gärdestad participated in Melodifestivalen four times - winning in 1979 with "Satellit" - and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2020. However, "Himlen är oskyldigt blå" was not one of the songs he competed with; it was first released in English in 1978 and then in Swedish in 1993.

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