Helen Sjöholm and Swedish Radio symphony orchestra - You have to be there - FULL SONG

English version of "Du måste finnas" from the musical "Kristina from Duvemåla".
From the twelfth day concert january 6 2010 in Stockholm.

[@boalollal242]

English doesn't do this song justice. It just feels so much more powerful and emotional in swedish.

[@sjpatrik2]

totally agree with you

[@nehathomas2155]

Absolutely

[@svwerkerdfad3814]

@@sjpatrik2 The swedish language is underestimated in a lot of ways :)

[@ericnichols9223]

I totally agree, even though I'm a native English speaker and don't know Swedish! I've read translations of the original to get a sense for the Swedish version, and I can tell that the original is much more powerful.

[@dorkflassbury1164]

The lyrics between the english and swedish versions are quite different. I think the swedish version is more powerful and better tells the story about the doubt in god that Kristina has and is more true to the book(s) by Vilhelm Moberg that is the basis for the whole musical Kristina Från Duvemåla.

[@TyrfingUN]

This version brings tears to my eyes.. but the Swedish version makes me cry

[@KimAlexisG]

Oh, my world. I've never heard this English version before. It's so different from the Swedish lyrics, but still delivers the same message, and God it's good! And obviously Helen's performance is stunning and gives me goosebumps all over.

[@danielmcgowan4970]

In Swedish or English, Helen sings with every fibre of her being. A Magnificent Performance.

[@thomaslawrence2375]

I just listened to the full soundtrack for Kristina yesterday and the story is so heartbreaking and by the time we reached this song i was a sobbing mess 😭😭😭😭

[@mikaellindberg8675]

Whether it's in Swedish or in English... This song always make me cry... It is so beautiful!!!

[@swedishmake-upgeek5650]

The Swedish version is so much more powerful, in her doubt, her anger, her anguish.

[@philbrm]

This song is a haunting masterpiece of brilliance - bringing together voice and production - wow

[@kattoneycliffe6715]

I feel it has its power in both languages!! Especially with this lady singing it!!

[@reubenmusyoka3192]

Hellen could only be the best to perform this great song ❤️. But the genius of Benny and Bjorn of ABBA is undoubtedly incredible! God bless us all.

[@alexanderbrookes9331]

This song 🎵 is another fantastic example of the beauty of Swedish partnership Andersson and Ulvaeus.

[@manuelagaspar5991]

I love the song,she sing with feelings and she is so beautiful.anybody has the wording of this song.can you share me.

[@supastah68]

Beautiful

[@ianm6582]

This is musical master piece, as is all their music.

[@frazermurray8605]

På svenska, denna låt är perfektion! The English version leaves me wanting.

[@Sgt_gh0st]

Jag brukar inte ofta känna såhär... men Helen har faktiskt blivit ännu vackrare med åren... vilken underbar röst... jag ryser varje gång..

[@DinoSvanhvit]

Jag tycker samma.👍

[@Migler1]

Håller med till 100 procent!

[@Skytte-po7jz]

Håller med. Hon har alltid varit vacker men hon blir bara vackrare. Likt hennes musik som bara blir bättre ju mer man lyssnar.

[@user-ic9mo7bn3z]

Yes yes ❤❤❤❤❤RAa

[@kattskit11]

Sveriges (till att börja med 😊) bästa röst 🎶🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Tack!!! Helen.... Björn & Benny för att ni finns!❤

[@borg22222]

Such power and beauty. The song and Helen.

[@Sunburst75]

Written by Benny and Bjorn. Magnificent.

[@gillianleenas977]

I'm in love with this song. I love both the English and the Swedish versions. It feels like the original is always best, though! Great performance!

[@easypeasy3904]

incredible singing!

[@markmcloughlin3945]

Outstanding

[@lisapedersen2056]

Vilken känsla, vilken röst❤️

[@pedroviaud1119]

Reminds me of Job, how he was struggling within his soul why would God allow so much suffering in his life, the most beautiful thing that exists is the mystery of human suffering, everything we have is temporal, only God is eternal

[@neilcare5173]

Magnificent...

[@lassestenwall2112]

Helen. Du är bara så BÄÄÄÄST !!! Det bästa Sverige har.

[@monaandersen2123]

Underbar gestaltning. DUÄR FENOMENAL solie deo gloria

[@scottbabus7088]

I come back to this so many times because it so timely in this day and age.What a brilliant performance.

[@janolofjohansson5210]

Du är så otroligt fantastiskt sångerska

[@notsomuch273]

Beautiful! ❤

[@charottenanton6311]

she is amazing

[@rositakarlsson452]

Helt underbart ❤

[@philbrm]

still so fantastic

[@caridaddiazmartell5808]

Bella canción hermosa voz bendiciones gracias

[@GD-ec2xu]

Awesome song! I'm obsessed. LOL

[@mauridelabrida9035]

Considero a voz de Helen uma das melhores do mundo . parabéns

[@jaimeseronmunoz6319]

Hermoso tema interpretado por la grandísima Hellen

[@korretuf]

pekino makerino jabberino, what u saying my bro?

[@graphiquejack]

Interesting that two men tended to write such brilliant music for women to sing. I could see Frida or Agnetha or both singing this magnificently. I kind of wish the women, even in their 70s, did an album together of B&B music they wrote outside of ABBA.

[@caridaddiazmartell5808]

Fantástico

[@ernestjones8164]

I think this song delivers a strong message in any language. The words are beautful whether in English, Swedish or outer Mongolian. I never make comparisons.

[@caridaddiazmartell5808]

La música es vidad y amor bendiciones gracias

[@alexplaza6562]

Im a swede, and Hearst both version's and I have to say, I prefer this one over the Swedish version.

[@TomAnderson7]

As another Swede. The Swedish version is superior!!

[@gillisfranzen9414]

Jag är aå ledsen men jag tror att jag älskar dig ❤

[@TheNyakaat]

Do yourself a favour and search for videos of her singing this in Swedish!!!

[@fjosor1]

❤️

[@kristerkarlehem3335]

Helen: Just another day at the office......

[@thomaspettersson9039]

Stupid to compare language. Briliant both way´s!

[@henrikmodin4235]

I think it's better when she sings in swedish. This is from a concert in Minnesota , US. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2PMlYl_bJiUn9U And Peter Joback from the same concert. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2PXlXWBe7CCqLc

[@bjornbrunstorp6839]

Why the swedish original is more powerful is because its she feels more secure singing in here own language.

[@markmcloughlin3945]

O M G

[@caridaddiazmartell5808]

Impresionante orquesta felicidades maestro genial bendiciones gracias

[@user-ic9mo7bn3z]

❤🙏❤️🙏🙏❤️🙏❤️

[@user-ic9mo7bn3z]

❤❤❤❤🎉😊

[@hectorthewonderdog]

Is there no producer brave enough to stage this show in London?

[@Lindrah]

STANDING OVATION PLEASE 😅🎉

[@antiHUMANDesigns]

So much weight was lost in this English translation. Some parts are completely different from the original, and a lot of the lines have been scrambled into a different order. But I think the main problem is that Helen Sjöholm is unable to express as much emotion without this native-language connection to the words. It simply doesn't feel real to the same extent that the original did. This is a song about a woman who set out on a long and dangerous journey to the new world, assuming God would see her and her family through, but now that she feels she last lost everything, and now that many have died, she begins to wonder if God ever existed in the first place. The English version feels more like empty platitudes, especially the chorus, and makes it seem like she thinks God may have forsaken her, rather than reflecting a loss of faith that God actually ever existed in the first place - a dangerous and terrifying thought to a peasant woman in those times. Consider my more literal translation of the original Swedish, which doesn't take rhyming and rhythm into account: You banished me, God. I was torn my from homeland. Here, I am a refugee and stranger, and I accept that fate. But, you took my child and you take me from my husband. I can no longer see a meaning. What is it that you want? What am I to believe? The though is dizzying, ahead an abyss opens up. My whole being revolts and wants to say "no". The question's been woken, and now my soul trembles before the answer, that you aren't real, even though I believed in you. Who, then, would help me suffer through life in this place? Who, then, could give me the strength I require? Who, then, would console me? I am so small on this Earth. If you didn't exist, then just what would I do? No, you have to exist, you have to! I live my life through you! Without you, I am a fragment adrift a dark and stormy sea You have to exist, you have to! How could you abandon me? I'd be nowhere, I'd be nothing if you didn't exist. Never before have I toughed this in words or in thought. Those tiny words that terrify and torment me so. Those words are "what if?" What if I prayed all those prayers for nothing? If you do not exist, then what am I to do? Who, then, would sense my regrets and forgive me? A piece of the soul, who would grant me this? Who, then, would thus receive me at death? If you didn't exist, who'd take care of me, then? (Repeat chorus)

[@Kkardemumma]

As a smålänning I prefer the English language version.

[@mugogrog]

An incredible song about someone desperately holding on to faith written by someone who doesn't believe in god. I find something incredibly beautiful in that sort of empathy. The only time I have seen that type of understanding of other views in art is in the Book series Ender's Game where a mormon(?) writer seems to completely understand the viewpoint of Ender, an atheist. Yeah yeah, bla bla, just enjoy the song :D I'll shush now.

[@patrickhicks9880]

some of abba's songs sound better in swedish i've been waiting for you is one

[@SirTubeALotMore]

And now I want Agnetha Fältskog to sing this song ...

[@arwenitaofdoom9041]

The Swedish version is so much better.

[@DaKolbasz]

Sorry, no. What happened to the perfect lyrics in the original? And the ending - "I reach for your hand". Wtf.

[@ilreput1]

I don’t like the English translation at all. “You must exist” is not the same as “You have to be there”. I can’t listen to the English version, the Swedish is divine.

[@User-wr5qz]

The lyrics in english JUST NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@DionIjeh1991]

Jag gillar original bättre.

[@NurseEmilie]

As beautifully as she sings, no one catch match Susan Boyle singing it. Susan has the desperation each searching soul faces as she searches for God. Maybe because this has been her experience.

[@jamie7056]

Helen is leagues better than Susan Boyle,there’s no comparison.Helen’s 1996 Minnesota performance is stunning.

[@Dsdsds346]

You should hear Helen doing the original in Swedish then

[@bethsillytoe]

Why are they not standing??????? She deserves a standing ovation that was phenomenal ...!!!!!

[@violetmaggiemae3]

Beautiful

[@DerRealLoewe]

we, Swedes, love our Music, we feel it as a national treasure, she is bringing glory to our land.....

[@stefanhellqvist849]

I am so blessed to live in the same time and country as this pearl.

[@glennolsen8746]

And so you should. She is truly great. Hälsningar från Norge! :)

[@JuanCarlos1566]

She has a wonderful voice!!! she sings with her soul!!!

[@rongross309]

Absolute Perfection!

[@andrewplatts3865]

I just keep coming back to this - time and time and time again - sublime xx

[@mrbullseye]

This gives me goosebumps every single time I hear it. She puts so much feeling into it that it's almost ridiculously emotional for me to hear this. And the swedish version is even more powerful for me.

[@michalisraelvolf]

Helen is so so so so so so so so so incredible

[@bonniehork1148]

Helen is the Streisand of Sweden. I am so touched by everything she expresses..

[@claumouz]

I agree with you. I'm from Argentina and I've just discovered her. Her renditions of "Someone else's story", both in English and Swedish, are so intense and amazing. A real talent

[@zeffe0528]

claudette mousseau you should see her doing some funny performance too. She is a fantastic actor in those too.

[@mzmiller52]

Streisand lost her magic by the late 60’s, unfortunately.

[@corriepitt7630]

Sjöholm is so much more than Streisand ever was. Streisand never got over her self-satisfaction, acquired in the 1960s. Sjöholm goes out to far greater limits vocally and dramatically. And then there’s that fantastic chemistry with Tommy Körberg, but that’s another story.

[@robertbob2462]

I love you Helen. Please please come to Scotland or even the UK to perform

[@alexreyes7931]

No words to say how beautiful....

[@bunnymad5049]

I have listened to this so many times and still cannot, not cry. She's unbelievable in the BEST way.

[@Fanniiiy]

This is one of the best performances by any artist ever!!

[@kattoneycliffe6715]

More recent years, Susan Boyle does an excellent rendition of this song!! Same as Helen, gives it her everything!!

[@svenskengratisegott]

Ja, plus mama med queen

[@stefanoolcese]

I prefer the Swedish version, which is normal since in 99,9% of cases original versions are better than translations. But she is FANTASTIC in both renditions. WOW!!!

[@JayJasperLondon]

Oh no doubt about that- they're lucky to have Helen sing the English version as she knows the actual (Swedish) words, the character of Kristina & how powerful the whole piece/song is and what it's supposed to bring across better than Helen (our national treasure, bless her heart). Btw how come Kristina från Duvemåla hasn't been on stage over here (UK) - anyone know? These are the sort of moments where I wish I was a producer haha I wouldn't even need to audition people I'd know exactly who to cast 🙌🏻🎭🎬🎹🎤👤👥👥👤

[@Qumak13]

The English lyrics are very powerful and while staying as close as possible to the Swedish original, they have been written in a very artful way, too! The sit so well with the haunting music!

[@blackjoker50769]

Nevertheless....This Woman is incredible. She always sings with her heart.

[@svarog8126]

I just watched the Boyle version, yeah, no contest.

[@alanhall8286]

Celine could not touch this perfformance.

[@alanhall8286]

Few if any could. \

[@byggs129]

This is a performance. In Swedish it is perfection.

[@MrsRosencranz1]

Swedish version Lutheran, English version Catholic Both are impressive. And Helen is a goddess.

[@Miatpi]

How is the English version Catholic?

[@BerishStarr]

@@Miatpi The English one sounds more like a call for God, whereas in the Swedish one she has lost all faith. In Swedish the song speak truth to a lot of atheist's.

[@tobblerable]

This song is much stronger in swedish

[@fontenayperi]

what's it called in Swedish?

[@Sasstra89]

fontenayperi "Du måste finnas" :)

[@tobiask5131]

Inte jämförbart ens.

[@Markus-ns6ld]

Svenska versionen är dock överlägsen.

[@EADGBE5]

I must have played this video a dozen times over the past months... each time I swear I will not tear (“teer”) up... each time I fail. The close-ups show this is coming from Helen’s soul. Bless you for keeping hope strong. ~Andy

[@crawfty1965]

Are the audience asleep, do they not feel that this is one of the presentations of a well written B&B song EVER. Goosebumps every time, the first time I heard it in English I cried, it is so so moving, I questioned ny beliefs when I heard this. Amazing Performance. A

[@borg22222]

Such Passion....she seems to be in a trance.....so much in the song.....I notice she sort of drops the mask right at end ....her more calm self wakes up or comes back. Amazing

[@gandurmailwlexploration3581]

Outstanding ..... simply outstanding ... yeees ...

[@linneacarlsson]

Hon är fantastisk! Underbara Helen ♥

[@joeymcdonald4214]

HELEN sings from the very depth of her being . Just think of the listening pleasure that GOD gives humanity through HELEN and she gives thanks by singing THANKS to her very Creator.

[@andrewcrawford5890]

Both Swedish & English versions cut my stomach with a knife, both are so powerful & pill you in. Magnificent performance by Helen & one of the best pieces written by Benny & Bjorn. It makes it even more painful when you realise Bjorn is an athiest like myself, but You Have To Be There is just damn moving. A

[@CodebladeWielder006]

One of the best swedish singers of all time!

[@kpruck9615]

Live Performance Favorites und

[@JoeJonesABC123]

Absolutely brilliant! I keep watching it over and over.

[@richardgornalle4536]

I discovered this lady only some weeks ago. I am glad I did. She is wonderful.

[@Enniek]

I like this song in English, but i LOVE it in Swedish... And that for a Dutchie

[@OneChiChic]

Awesome performance (and I love the lyrics; very moving, touching)

[@borg22222]

Watching this again...Helen is just so so powerful....she smoothly Belts it out...full passion and grimace showing so forcefully on her face. She becomes this song...is really ‘taken away ‘ by it...until at the end she pops out of the ‘trance ‘. Fantastic,. Really compare her last “mad” reach fir your hand.....then song ends and she blinked back awake to the real world of the stage, that sweet and innocent smile appears. Where or how did she go? Possessed. Passion.

[@VocalMolly]

She is so, so so SO fabulous. Love this song and how she sings it.

[@TyrfingUN]

This makes my tears flow. Every time.

[@abbamad6283]

Another great presentation of a powerful song by Helen, love her.