Helen Sjöholm REACTION - Du måste finnas (Kristina från Duvemala) | First Time Seeing | Sweden

[@JOTAQD]

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[@anderspalm9107]

This song has no meaning if you dont understand the lyrics. You wouldent have that Weird smile on your face if you got the meaning of it./ swede

[@magnusbagenholm1002]

The whole musical is Great! /another swede... lol 😂

[@mariawigander]

I had the great opportunity to play in the Gothenburg Opera orchestra during 1996 and 1997 during several performances of “Kristina from Duvemåla” while Helen Sjöholm perfromed as the main character Kristina ❤

[@miafranlund6982]

This is from the musical Kristina from Duvemåla written by two ABBA members Björn and Benny(the two gentlemen the camera focused on in the audience). The musical is about what difficulties a family faces when poverty- migrating from Sweden to America. In this song a devastated Kristina thinks of all the bad things that have happened to her, having to leave her home, losing her child and her husband's love. She desperately prays to God, not knowing what she will do if he isn't real.

[@JOTAQD]

Woooow, thank you for this! ❤

[@itsgabeherekarlsson6341]

@@JOTAQD therer we're also a swedish rapper that did this song that you should look up ((hes a great singer(newkid)) i think you'll like it. dont think that his comment will reach you tho. :)

[@stefanolov]

@@itsgabeherekarlsson6341 Yeah sure .

[@hide3reptiles365]

@@stefanolov My niece does a cute rendition in the shower, too.

[@catrinebergstrom8623]

I wish you understood the lyrics in this amazing song. Every time I listen to this song in particular, I shiver so much the hair in my arms are risen. Helene Sjöholm is always good but in this masterpiece she is OUTSTANDING ❤️

[@NasaBalli]

I have heard this powerful and awesome performance at least 300 times. EVERY time I get goosebumbs and cry. It gets me EVERY time!

[@antivanti]

This song is about a poor Swedish immigrant in America who has faced extreme hardship in her life and as she prays to God she finds herself starting to doubt his existence and as a very devout person she doesn't know who she is if he doesn't exist so he has to. I'm not a believer myself but the pain she communicates in this is so moving that it has me bawling like a kid every time

[@JOTAQD]

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[@CR-dq1ch]

Growing up in secular Sweden I think it really captures a feeling many have had at least once in their lives. So moving.

[@mickem4322]

Helen was brought up with the heritage of Swedish Folkmusic, just like I also was.. Her Mother sang in the same choir as my parents for decades !! Helens control of her voice is something else :D // I believe Björn and Benny from ABBA wrote this song especially for her to sing. it`s from a Great Drama, telling us about the hardships so many emigrants experienced when leaving Sweden for America during some horrific famine years.. like 1/3 of the Swedish population did between 1850-1920 ..

[@lenaengell8528]

The best performance of Helen Sjöholm ever. She is incredible here! Soooo much passion, emotions and power. She is singing to God and is questioning if he is real. Very deep and very heartfelt. Increadible performance. My favourite. Can listen to it many times and do not get tiref of listening. All my love from Norway

[@JOTAQD]

Thank you! She's awesome indeed! 🙌🏻

[@jesperepe]

Agree

[@stefanolov]

@@JOTAQD This performance was in Minnesota USA , most of the attendance has swedish roots .

[@TimeForDzone]

That Sweden has the gift called Helen Sjöholm is amazing, Im blessed

[@JOTAQD]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@SarahTyskland]

I always have goosebumps when I'm listening to her performance 🥰

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

As a Swede born in the early 80s, that "2" up in the upper right corner is really kicking nostalgia into gear. I havnt seen that logo in at least 25 years.

[@callelundberg6790]

The best thing with this video is the reaction from the lady to the right.

[@Pilutta100]

You really need to read the lyrics to this man. Happy you found it impressive without, but I would have loved you being totally blown away 🤣 Hugs from Sweden.

[@Payne2view]

Being a Christian and knowing the meaning of the song, this is always moving for me, ever since hearing the original soundtrack recording. However, I have since seen an even more impressive and moving performance by Helen on stage doing the musical back in the day. It is on the "Mono music AB" channel. She literally, desperately yells "Du måste!!" and it is heartbreaking every time.

[@JOTAQD]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@karinjohansson7262]

I saw the musical on Cirkus in Stockholm. It is a fantastic musical with fantastic actors and singers. I love the performance of them all.

[@Payne2view]

@@karinjohansson7262 You were very fortuntate to see it performed. Its a masterpiece isn't it.

[@hide3reptiles365]

It's really that raw, visceral howl of a hurt abandoned child isn't it.

[@comafoify]

I saw it live, With her, even better, strong memory.

[@JOTAQD]

😯😯👏🏻

[@JOTAQD]

I'm sure it was amazing! 🙌🏻

[@Wloppish]

You should’ve watched it with lyrics, adds a dimension😊 cool vid

[@JOTAQD]

Thanks, buddy!

[@andreengdahl9592]

So true, it is kinda necessery to see it with subtitles, really powerful words even for me as an atheist... =)

[@pangling2217]

I cry every time i hear her sing this. Just amazing ❤️

[@anderseklund6058]

Funny comment from your reaction. "All with the mouth open over there". It was the ABBA members Björn and Benny. They and many of us in Sweden thinks she is one of the best singers in Sweden. Without doubt.

[@snorpenbass4196]

Also, they wrote the song.

[@JOTAQD]

Hahahahaha, I didn't know they were them! But, indeed, she's incredible! 😅

[@darthcrowley5561]

That's björn and Benny from Abba that wrote the musical

[@gotlandia1588]

You Have To Be There - Kristina från Duvemåla Helen Sjöholm🤩👏🏻👍🏻 You have banished me From the land where I was born Here upon a foreign shore, forsaken I have followed you and done Thy will Should I kneel to you? When I rise You strike me down Once again a little one you’ve taken Everywhere I turn it’s darker still What is it, Lord, that you want And that I am not seeing? What, in my innocent prayers, Am I failing to say? Never before have I questioned The truth of your being Never once have I dared Never until today All of a tremble I stand On the edge of confusion Who is to save me If into the darkness I fall? Now that I need more than ever My God to be near me Do you here when I call? Are you there, after all? You have to be there, you have to My life I have placed in thy keep And without you I am drifting On a dark and rising sea You have to be there, you have to Without you I drown in the deep Too far, too far from land The waters drag me down I reach for your hand Who, when I die, will throw open His arms to receive me? Who will believe me and take me into his embrace? When I have gone to my rest Will you watch me and wake me? When my time comes at last Will you grant me your grace? I am so small on this earth I am nothing without you Daring to doubt you at all Turns a knife in my heart Little by little I’m losing my way In the shadows I am losing my hold And the world falls apart You have to be there, you have to My life I have placed in thy keep And without you I am drifting On a dark and rising sea You have to be there, you have to Without you I drown in the deep Too far, too far from land The waters drag me down I reach for your hand And without you I am drifting On a vast and rising sea You have to be there, you have to Without you I drown in the deep Too far, too far from land The waters drag me down I reach for your hand Written by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus 2:08

[@MrFalken91]

3 amazing performances from swedes would be this, tommy körberg and jussi björling.

[@JOTAQD]

I'll take a look at them too! 🙌🏻

[@Bojonatanjarpehag]

Nice video. I wrote a couple of songs for her latest album. She's amazing!

[@JOTAQD]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@johankaewberg9512]

You must exist, you must exist, i live my life through you.

[@patrikberglund5717]

Great reaction

[@JOTAQD]

Thank you!

[@ge_mig_nat_som_kanns]

Kristina has travelled across the atlantic to america, she is homesick and everything is new, and now she’s lost another child and if she gets pregnant again she may die. She is starting to doubt the existence of God - a force she always took for granted, and her world is trembling. You have to be there, you HAVE to, I have placed my life in thy hands so why do you abandon me? Without you I’m all alone.

[@JOTAQD]

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[@bennyhana3556]

english subs one here if you wanna understand :P Helen Sjöholm - Du måste finnas : kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJyaZ5KfptxghsU&ab_channel=baflat

[@JOTAQD]

Thanks! 🙌🏻

[@hakanandersson3278]

People with open mouth. Haha the writers. Björn and Benny.You hear of Abba.?

[@JOTAQD]

Hahahahaha, I didn't know they were them!

[@magnusemilsson7205]

It is a powerful text (below in English translation, and Swedish) =========================== You Have to Exist You banished me, God I was ripped from my homeland Here I'm a fugitive and a stranger and I find myself in that fate now But you took my child and you're taking my husband from me I can no longer see a purpose. What is it that you want, what am I to believe? The thought makes me dizzy In front of me lies a gaping abyss My whole being wants to rebel and to say no The question has been awoken and now my soul shivers in front of the answer That you don't exist Even though I believed in you Who would help me endure life here outside? Who would grant me the strength that I need? Who would comfort me? I'm so small on earth If you didn't exist Yes, then what was I doing? No, you have to exist, you have to! I live my life through you Without you I'm a splinter on a dark and stormy sea You have to exist, you have to! Then how could you abandon me? I would be nowhere I would be nothing if you didn't exist Never before have I had you in speech or in thought That small word that scare me and torture me so The word is if, if I've said all my prayers for nothing If you don't exist what am I supposed to do? Who would feel my regret and then forgive? Peace of the soul Yes, who would grant me that? Who would welcome me after death? If you didn't exist. Who would take care of me later? No, you have to exist You have to I live my life through you Without you I'm a splinter on a dark and stormy sea You have to exist, you have to! Then how could you abandon me? I would be nowhere I would be nothing if you didn't exist No, you have to exist, you have to! Then how could you abandon me? I would be nowhere I would be nothing if you didn't exist ========================================================== And in Swedish that she sings. Du Måste Finnas Du fördrev mig, gud. Från mitt hemland slets jag bort Här är jag en flykting och en främling och det ödet finner jag mig i Men du tog mitt barn och du tar mig från min man Jag kan inte längre se en mening. Vad är det du vill, vad ska jag tro? Tanken är svindlande Framför mig gapar en avgrund Hela mitt väsen gör uppror och vill säga nej Frågan är väckt och nu darrar min själ inför svaret Att du inte finns till Fast jag trodde på dig Vem skulle hjälpa mig uthärda livet härute? Vem skulle ge mig den kraften som jag måste få? Vem skulle trösta mig? Jag är så liten på jorden Om du inte fanns till Ja, vad gjorde jag då? Nej, du måste finnas, du måste! Jag lever mitt liv genom dig Utan dig är jag en spillra på ett mörkt och stormigt hav Du måste finnas, du måste! Hur kan du då överge mig? Jag vore ingenstans Jag vore ingenting om du inte fanns Aldrig förut har jag haft dig i tal eller tanke Det lilla ordet som skrämmer och plågar mig så Ordet är om, om jag bett alla böner förgäves Om du inte finns till vad ska jag göra då? Vem skulle känna min ånger och sedan förlåta? Friden i själen Ja, vem skulle skänka mig den? Vem skulle så ta emot mig till slut efter döden? Om du inte fanns till Vem tog hand om mig sen? Nej, du måste finnas Du måste Jag lever mitt liv genom dig Utan dig är jag en spillra på ett mörkt och stormigt hav Du måste finnas, du måste! Hur kan du då överge mig? Jag vore ingenstans Jag vore ingenting om du inte fanns Nej, du måste finnas, du måste! Hur kan du då överge mig? Jag vore ingenstans Jag vore ingenting om du inte fanns

[@JOTAQD]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ida4772]

Listen to her singing ”Gabrielas song”!!!!

[@JOTAQD]

I'll take a look at it! Thank you for your suggestion! 🙏🏻

[@ida4772]

@@JOTAQD it’s from a movie, and her charecter has left her abusive husband. So much power in her voice. The video has english lyrics 👍🏼.

[@Jaglilpill75]

Helen Sjöholm 💖💖💖There is video with english text also.the lyric is powerful😍 Peter Jöback also in the same show sings När guldet blev till sand) check it out also

[@JOTAQD]

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[@karinjohansson7262]

I love the song Vildgräs with Anders Ekborg very much too. In the musical he has just have an argue with another immigrant about whom the land belongs to.

[@helenascheele5922]

The men in the audiensen with open mouths are not your average Audie so but Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny sAndersson, the BB in ABBA , and the creators of the musical Kristina Fran Duvemala. I think even them are moved by her expression and singing

[@rrpk]

Mano, aos 2:14 tu fala que eles estão de boca aberta, são o Björn & Benny (os BB do ABBA), escritores do musical. A Helen é uma artista formidável!

[@zannazo]

I had the honor to actually see this musical with its original cast, besides Helene Sjöholm Peter Jöback played one of the main characters, he went on to play the Phantom in The phantom of the opera on Westend later. Watch his big number in this musical “Guldet blev till sand”

[@hide3reptiles365]

This is what it looks like, when a mature and talented singer elevates her art before her (generally very uninteresting) ego.

[@simonerognas8226]

You should watch the one with english subs

[@gustav7545]

Impresionante y emocionante al ver la traducción de lo que canta incluso siendo ateo

[@Mrsnobody1780]

Listen to another great singer from Sweden: Molly Sandén with Husavik (Oscar nominated song). Take the liveperformence from the Oscars.

[@JOTAQD]

I'll definetly take a look at it! 🙌🏻

[@SkylineBilip]

Just FYI, the dudes with their mouths open are Björn and Benny from ABBA. 🤪

[@bullekanel]

Those with open mouth you noticed is the famous ABBA Björn and Benny.. who made this musical😂

[@Chrizzlyy88]

BIelive me! if you understand the lyrics its even better! goosebumps and tears in my eyes always..

[@rafaelamich5613]

O melhor é suas expressões jota kkk

[@JOTAQD]

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[@rafaelamich5613]

UAUUUUU EU TO CHOCADA.....UAAUUU KKKKK

[@JOTAQD]

MASSA, NÉ? TANTA COISA BOA QUE A GENTE NÃO CONHECE! 🤩

[@peterbernstrom5160]

So funny… you comment that everyone is sitting with their mouths open zooming in on two men. And it’s Bjorn and Benny who wrote all of it. And also known to be the two guys from ABBA…

[@magnusbagenholm1002]

Did you Check Gabriel Herique from Brazil? Earth song (Michael Jackson), Hurt (Christina Aguilera) or Endless Love (Mariah Carey) Ft. Jade Salles! You Will love Thatcher!

[@rositawangdahl457]

The 2 guys with open mouths Yos saw was Björn and Benny in Abba. Them 2 wrote this Chessmusical

[@carlawiberg6282]

Not Chess -- this musical is called "Kristina från Duvemåla"

[@rositawangdahl457]

@@carlawiberg6282 tack 🙏🌹🌹

[@karinjohansson7262]

They did write the Chess musical too.

[@joary639]

She scould never have done this without her up in the right corner.

[@magnusbagenholm1002]

Multi buon

[@mimmieriksson1878]

Very funny seeing This video not knowing what language you´re speaking and allso not knowing if you know swedish or not 👍

[@JOTAQD]

I'm Brazilian and I'm speaking Portuguese! 😅

[@lenaengell8528]

But Helenas face expressions are sooo vivid! You don not need to understand what she is singing!

[@denhed78]

English version kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGK9eqaap9GrpLs

[@JOTAQD]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Nooo. no english subs! orz