“1974 Bambi learned the song “I want to thank
the life”, by a Chilean refugee. At that time she sang it in Spanish, later
on she sang it in Swedish, a translation made by the troubadour and singer
Jan Hammarlund. - In some way it became the hymn of my life,
“my song”. |
Brian Hart, Sunday Sun mars/March
1993 ”Därefter kom den
förtjusande Bambi från Sverige. I båda akterna av showen lyste hon upp kvällen
med sina känsliga tolkningar av ”Manhattan” och ”Someone to watch over me”.
Hon har det där lilla magiska och ett underbart leende. Av någon anledning,
kom jag att tänka på Eartha Kitt och Marlene Dietrich. |
Nya Svenska
Magasinet Februari 1991 (Birgitta Terpstra) |
New Swedish Magazin February 1991 Bambi - you´re terrific! Now she´s done it again - Bambi
Elinsdotter Oscarsson from Luleå! It´s hard to find a sweeter, more cheerful
and energetic lady among the Swedes here on the coast! Last year she initiated by herself a musical
performance at tha Salon Varieté in Fuengirola together with some of the
coast´s best musicians. And now she´s done it again! Wednesday evening the 16th
of January, the crucial evening when the whole world was waiting for how the
Golf crisis was going to be solved, she, the tender and delicate singer from
Scandinavia, who spends a few months every winter in Fuengirola, gave a
roaring musical evening with her talented musician friends. It was an unrivalled success! A radiant, captivating
and professional evening, that we in the audience shan´t forget in a hurry!
All participating artists were in a excellent form and let a delighted
audience have their fill of lovely, swinging jazz mixed with a little more
seroius evergreens and romantic ballads. “Nobody mentioned - nobody forgotten” is a Swedish
saying, often used on occasions like this, but in this case it really was all
included, each and every one of the artists is worthy of great praise. Bambi herself, a fairy princess, but at the same
time Swedish champion in wheel chair racing and a superwoman inside, sang
some of her songs, well known to all of us, made a dynamic rendition of the
French “La vie en rose” and a fantastic “Memory”, where the strength of her voice
took turns with a soft sensitivity in pianissimo. In one of her closing
numbers she made, a duet with the jazz singer Trish Reynolds, a perfectly
timed and to tears moving version of “Somewhere over the rainbow”. (translation;
Monica Granström, Luleå) |