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BBx8 @ Talang 2008

Have ears for the music and a body for the dance

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Last Friday (May 2) we were performing in the Swedish TV show "Talang 2008" which are the Swedish version of "America's Got Talent". We won a place in the semifinals. Our next performance will be the 23:d of May. Here is the video from the audition show:
Check the diary from the Shanghai trip by clicking the picture below.
Now in both Swedish and English....
BBx8's diary from Shanghai
Shanghai, we love You ...........
"Have ears for the music, a body for the dance and being a delight for the eye with an open-hearted mind"
BBx8 (B-B times eight) is an abbreviation for (the) Blad Ballet times Eight, but it has a lot of other meanings in Swedish. We are eight siblings and BB is a Swedish shortening of "maternity ward" and since our mother has been there eight times, it was her idea to have this name. The word "children" is called "barn" in Swedish so "the Blad Children times Eight" is another meaning of BBx8.
We don’t see on our selves as finished in our development, but under education and on the way. But we are able to give a lot already and can color the art and the life with our expression.
Our talents contain music and dance but we have also a poetic vein.
Of course we can perform solo both singing and dancing, but when we do it together it is like being hit by a sun-beam in the rising of the sun. We do it for you.
Ängla is 22 years old. She has been studied music on musical schools since she was ten years old (Adolf Fredriks musikklasser and Lilla Akademiens musikgymnasium, Stockholm). She studies music at Kulturama in Stockholm. She plays guitar and violin; since she was five. She is good at many things but singing is the thing for her.
Matteus is 20 years old. He is the holder of the Nicolai Gedda scholarship this year (2007). Matteus is studying Opera at "Vadstena Musikaliska Akademi". It is a pre-study for the University College of Opera in Stockholm (or other places). He has been studying clasical song the last three years at "Lilla Akademiens" high scool in Stockholm. Before that he was in "Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser" for six years. Matteus plays cello. He also likes acting. He is excellent on reading aloud and very good on imitating. Charlie Chaplin is one of his favorites.
Matteus in Vadstena 2007

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Zac is 17 years old. He is like a rainbow with many strong colors. He has been dancing since he was five, but already as an eight year old boy he was acting on professional stages in Stockholm. He plays guitar, but his main focus is on the dance as he do every day in school.
Levi is 15 years old and is also dancing ballet every day at school and has been participated in a lot of professional performances in Stockholm. He plays violin.
Rufus is 14 years old and he also goes to a ballet school. He has been working at the royal Opera and other theatres since he was ten. He has a lot of energy and loves to perform (of course you can apply this to all eight). He plays the piano and accordion.
Rufus competed in
the Swedish finale of
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
the 31:th of August 2007
Unfortunately Rufus didn't win, but he gave a good show to the audience and in the Television. Se it here:
Superhjälten (The Super Hero)

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Tehilla is 12 years old and dances ballet everyday. She has a strong blaze for dancing. She has been acting in a TV-series where she had a quite big role as the child of the leading character. She plays chello.
Alpha is 8 years old and is going on a musical school where she plays harp. She is also a host of a children’s program on Swedish Television.
Junior is 4 years old and loves to dance and sing with his big sisters and brothers…..
The list of each child is much longer since they all have a lot of experiences from commercials, short films, photographer's models, concerts and more.. but this is just a piece to taste.
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First Night at "the Sound of Music" musical, Göta Lejon, Stockholm 29/9/07
Pics from live performance on the "Vi i världen" festival:
The Swedish WATF Song - studio session

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BBx8 wants to work in a context where people don’t just see to their own prosperity and advantages. We want to support organisations that work for human rights and special supporting children all over the world to grow up in conditions that make it possible for them selves to take control over their situation. We see music as one of our possibilities to reach out our hands to help and encourage other peoples. One part of this is to participate in the WATF (We Are The Future) Project. Please click on the WATF icon among our top friends below to learn more about this project.
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Member Since: 12/17/2006
Band Website: BBx8.se
Band Members: Ängla, Matteus, Zac, Levi, Rufus, Tehilla, Alpha and Junior

Influences: Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys), Per Gessle,
The Beatles, Ted Gärdestad
J S Bach, Jussi Björling,
Tiger Woods, Kathleen Quinlan,
Mats Ek, Pierre de Olivo,
Baryshnikov, Isadora Duncan
....... mum and dad.
Sounds Like:
Lilla Melodifestivalen SVT - subtitled

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BBx8 Show at the
Vi i Världen - festival
in Västerås, Sweden 2007
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The WATF Song - Live

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I Min Fantasi - Live

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A Different Way - Live

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Diggiloo Diggiley - Live

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Hej Sofia - Live

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Breathe In Me - Live

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The "BBx8 dance" Sanctus - Live

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God Only Knows - Live

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Varmt Igen - Live

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Singin' In the Rain - Live
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Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Diary from Shanghai

If you want to see this blog with pictures go to Diary from Shanghai instead   Tuesday 30/10-07 ..We leave Stockholm-Arlanda at 2:10PM. We are in good time for check in. Become a little worr...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:59:00 PST

Diary from Shanghai in Swedish

Check the diary from the Shanghai trip by clicking the link below.Right now only in Swedish....BBx8's Swedish Blogg English diary will be posted soon....
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:35:00 PST

BBx8 to Shanghai

We are in the middle of the preparations for a trip to Shanghai. China and the rest of the world are going to see a Swedish group of eight brothers and sisters that love to sing and dance together, wh...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:18:00 PST

Pink Saturday

Today BBx8 were at a small concert in a shopping center to collect money for a foundation to support research on breast cancer. It was also a good dress rehersal for us before the exciting trip to Sh...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:06:00 PST

The videos from the Vi i Världen - Festival are here!!!

At last we are finished with the ten videos from the BBx8 Show at te Vi i Världen festival the 14:th of July 2007. We had to puzzle a lot since the raw material of videos and sound was not as good as ...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:05:00 PST

Program for BBx8 on the Vi I Världen - festival

Program for BBx8 on the Vi I Världen Festival in Västerås the 14:th of July Vi Är Framtiden (The Swedish WATF song) by Paul Weston. Song and dance BBx8 Fantasi by Rufus and Levi Blad and Alex Ehrli...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:27:00 PST

Rufus competes in the Swedish final of JESC 2007

Rufus will compete among seven other finalists in the Swedish final on TV4 before the big europeean final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Rufus sings his own song "The Super Hero". We will...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:18:00 PST

The small bunches of flowers.

I am bursting by impressions, as a leaf or bud who knows that "the flower time is coming". On the kitchen table stands wildwood windflowers, coltsfoot, daffodils, tulips, apple flowers, lilac, cowslip...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:09:00 PST

De små blombuketterna

Jag håller på att spricka av intryck, som ett blad eller knopp som vet att "den blomstertid nu kommer". På köksbordet står vitsippor, tussilago, påskliljor, tulpaner, äppelblom, syren, gullviva och f...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:08:00 PST

Salute for us!

There are several different shots that we now are seeing been fired. All steps that we human beings take, lead most of the time somewhere, forward or backward. Mostly, it is our selves that have to be...
Posted by BBx8 @ Talang 2008 on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:16:00 PST