The musician Anders Widmark has died – was 61 years old

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The musician Anders Widmark has died – was 61 years old
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The musician Anders Widmark has passed away, 61 years old, according to Upsala Nya Tidning.

Last Sunday, UNT reported that Widmark's family had gone out on social media and told that the jazz musician and composer was seriously ill with cancer.

Anders Widmark had to cancel his participation in several concerts on the choir tour "We are all poets" with Anders Widmark Trio and singer Zoie Finer, which instead had to be concluded without him on Tuesday evening in Uppsala.

That same evening, Widmark passed away, according to friends of the musician to UNT.

Uppsala pianist Anders Widmark emerged as a jazz musician, but described himself in interviews as a "musical seeker" and often explored other genres in his collaborations.

I've always tried to renew myself, he explained in a TT interview in 2015.

One moment he could play with choirs in churches, and then later experiment with hip-hop beats on an upcoming album. For example, the album "Reggae loves jazz" was released in 2023.

In 2011, Anders Widmark set another Uppsala resident's work to music, when he wrote music to texts from Dag Hammarskjöld's "Vägmärken" for the centenary of the UN leader's birth.

The greatest commercial successes came in collaborations with singers like Louise Hoffsten and Helen Sjöholm. The song "To open up my heart" with singer Sara Isaksson ended up on Svensktoppen in 2003.

Widmark's interest in film was also great. Already as a young man, he made small silent films, which he himself accompanied with music. In 2019, he played the lead role in the film musical "A music story" against, among others, Helen Sjöholm and Claes Malmberg, after having written the film's script.

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