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First Aid Kit is a Swedish folk duo. Klara Söderberg sings and plays guitar. Her older sister Johanna Söderberg sings backing vocals and plays keyboards. Their 2008 YouTube video cover of the song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" by Fleet Foxes spread their name rapidly on the Internet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrqBldlqzA )〕 After that they have achieved world wide fame with their harmonious singing and country and folk influenced songs, leading to a nomination for a Brit Awards as one of the five best international groups in 2015. They also received a nomination for "Best Emerging Artist" at the 2015 Americana Awards. In 2015 they were accompanied on tours by drummer Scott Simpson and pedal steel guitarist Melvin 'The Tiger' Duffy. ==Early history== Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg are from Enskede, a suburb of Stockholm. Johanna was born on October 31, 1990 and Klara on January 8, 1993.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sverigesradio.se/diverse/appdata/isidor/images/news_images/3849/2909376_570_320.jpg )〕 Their father was a member of the Swedish rock pop band Lolita Pop but he quit before Johanna was born and later became a teacher of history and religion. Their mother is a teacher of cinematography. From childhood Klara and Johanna were eager singers giving concerts using a jump rope as a pretend microphone.〔 Klara's first favorite songs were Judy Garland's songs from The Wizard of Oz and Billie Holiday's version of Gloomy Sunday, that she sang without much understanding of the English lyrics. Klara wrote her first song "Femton mil i min Barbiebil" when she was six.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/musik/first-aid-kit-vill-inte-vara-gulliga_1143199.svd )〕 They both attended the International English school of Enskede.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/first-aid-kit-tillbaka-dar-allt-borjade/ )〕 Klara applied for admission to a music school but she was not accepted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.svt.se/skavlan/first-aid-kit-och-lena-endre-i-skavlan/ )〕 In 2005 when Klara was 12, a friend introduced her to the band Bright Eyes. This led her to country music stars such as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Carter family, Louvin Brothers, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. The same year she received a guitar of her own as a Christmas present〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/first_aid_kit/ )〕 and quickly learned to play it. Johanna enjoyed a wide range of music from Britney Spears to German Techno.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/first-aid-kit )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mashable.com/2014/10/16/first-aid-kit-band/ )〕 However, it wasn't until watching the film ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' and listening to the film's soundtrack that she was inspired to sing "Down to the River to Pray" with her sister, Klara. Fascinated by the result they started to sing together first at home and then as street singers, for example in the Stockholm metro and in front of liquor stores.〔 They came up with the name for their band simply by randomly opening a dictionary.〔 Klara and Johanna also started to write and compose own country-folk songs inspired by Devendra Banhart and CocoRosie, among others,〔 without much influence from their parents who were more fond of Patti Smith, Velvet Underground and Pixies.〔 Their father confessed later in a Swedish radio program that he was astonished and actually a little jealous of the ease his daughters had in producing top-notch music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4067&artikel=4413437 )〕 The most important advice their father gave to them was to sing so loud that even somebody behind the wall could hear it.〔 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「First Aid Kit (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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