Mikael Wiehe

Mikael Wiehe is a Swedish singer, composer and guitar player. He is a leftist folk musician, dealing with what he considers right and wrong in the society from the eyes of the proletariat, but he also writes personal, non-political songs. Wiehe was one of the lead singers and the leading songwriter of Hoola Bandoola Band in the 1970's. After the split of the group in 1975, he was the leader of various other bands before becoming a solo artist in the beginning of the 1980's. He was a close friend of the late Björn Afzelius, the other lead singer of Hoola Bandoola Band. They sometimes toured around Scandinavia and recorded together in the 1980's and 1990's.