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About Lapp-Lisa
- Anna-Lisa Ă–st (1889-1974) was a Swedish gospel singer and recording artist, who was popular with both Swedish and Swedish-American audiences in the 1940s and 1950s.
- She performed in folk costume and was better known as Lapp-Lisa, a name reflecting the Sami heritage of her home district.Anna-Lisa Vikström was born October 8, 1889 in the village of Mark, about 20 miles northwest of Vilhelmina, Västerbotten.
- In 1924 she married postal worker Johan “Jonte” Öst of Hedemora, with whom she had two daughters: Gun, whom they adopted in 1927, and Siw, who was born in 1935.
- Anna-Lisa Öst died April 27, 1974 and is buried at Hedemora Church.In 1904 Vikström nearly drowned in a boating accident and vowed to dedicate her life to God.
- At the age of nineteen she was saved, and in 1911 she became an officer in the Salvation Army.
- She continued in this post until marrying Johan Ă–st in 1924.After her marriage Anna-Lisa Ă–st continued her spiritual work and toured Sweden and the other Nordic countries as a singing evangelist.
- She was not the first gospel singer known as “Lapp-Lisa”, but she was the most famous one.
- Lisa Thomasson (1878-1932) had previously gone by that name.Lapp-Lisa had a repertoire of hundreds of songs, many of which she had learned from her mother.
- She made her first recordings in 1929 and over the years released more than 400 songs in both Sweden and America.
- Her signature tune “Barnatro” (Childhood Faith) was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and sold over 100,000 copies.
- Her autobiography was titled With childhood faith in the world: Lapp-Lisa tells about her life.In 1949, 1954 and 1959 Lapp-Lisa visited the United States, where she traveled widely and recorded numerous songs.
- On her final trip she appeared in seventeen States and shared her Christian faith with tens of thousands of Swedish-Americans.In 2001 a Lapp-Lisa museum opened in her hometown of Mark.
- More than forty years after her death Lapp-Lisa’s music lives on through the sales of records, CDs and digital downloads on the Internet.
- Several of her songs also appear on video-sharing websites.
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