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Barbara Helsingius (born 27 September 1937 in Helsinki) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish olympic fencer, singer and poet. She participated at the 1960 Summer Olympics.〔(Barbara Helsingius ) at sports-reference.com, accessed 2010-08-17〕 Trained as a gym teacher, she took her masters in pedagogy at Stanford University (1963). Interested in American art and folk music, she began to record, and her first release, (1966) was a collection of American folk songs, translated to Finnish. She became well-known internationally, and is a member of Visens venner in Norway, of Visans Vänner in Helsinki and Yrkestrubadurernas Forening in Sweden, part of the Svenska Visakademien (1999, its only Finn) and the joint Nordic cultural organisation NordVisa. From 1969-1975, she lived in Oslo with her husband, Hank Koski, a diplomat at the USA's embassy. Her family now live in Espoo. ==Prizes == *Hambestipendiet, Sweden 1989 *Norsk-finsk kulturpris 1993 *Nils Ferlin-prisen, Sweden 1994 *NordVisa-statuetten "Liv" 1995 *Pro Cultura Espoo 1995 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Helsingius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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