Roger Pontare
Fred Roger Pontare | |
---|---|
Background information | |
Birth name | Roger Johansson |
Born | Slagnäs, Sweden | 17 October 1951
Genres | Folk pop Schlager |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Years active | 1976–present |
Fred Roger Pontare (born Roger Johansson; 17 October 1951) is a Swedish musician. He lives in
Hudiksvalls kommun
.
Pontare was born in
TV4.[1]
Personal life
Roger Pontare is father to Viktor and Vincent Pontare. The latter is well known singer songwriter with the mononym Vincent and as Vargas as part of the duo Vargas & Lagola.
Pontare has been notable for his two arrests for drinking and driving, which left him with two months in prison in June 2023. [citation needed]
Discography
Albums
Year | Album | Chart positions | Certification |
---|---|---|---|
SWE | |||
1995 | Sinatrafied | — | |
1995 | Julens sånger | — | |
1999 | Som av Is | — | |
2000 | När vindarna viskar mitt namn | 39 | |
2000 | When Spirits Are Calling My Name | — | |
2000 | I vargens spår | 9 |
|
2002 | Den stora friheten | — | |
2006 | Från Stjärnorna till Silverland | 37 | |
2011 | Mitt vinterland | — |
Singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SWE | |||||||||
"Christmastime is Here Again" | 1988 | — | Non-album singles | ||||||
"Silverbarn" | 1990 | — | |||||||
" Stjärnorna" )
(with Marie Bergman |
1994 | — | |||||||
"Som av Is" | 1999 | — | Som av Is | ||||||
"Cold as Ice" | — | ||||||||
"När vindarna viskar mitt namn" | 2000 | 2 |
|
När vindarna viskar mitt namn | |||||
"When Spirits Are Calling My Name" | — | When Spirits Are Calling My Name | |||||||
"Silverland" | 2006 | 31 | Från Stjärnorna till Silverland | ||||||
"Himmel och hav" | 2017 | 100 [2] |
Non-album single | ||||||
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
References
- ^ Stjärnor tävlar i nya genrer Sydsvenskan, Retrieved 20 November 2021
- ^ "Sverigetopplistan – Sveriges Officiella Topplista". Sverigetopplistan. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roger Pontare.