caption death_date death_place birth_place label name background birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
photo on record sleeve 1959 20 july 1996 sundbyberg , sweden askersund , sweden sonora bertil boo solo_singer 16 january 1914 ballads bertil boo-1959 . jpg bertil boo
 john bertil boo singer , actor , farmer
bertil boo

john bertil boo -lrb- born 16 january 1914 in askersund , dead 20 july 1996 in sundbyberg -rrb- was a swedish singer .
bertil boo grew up as the youngest of 15 siblings on a farm , which he took over after the death of his father .
it was not until 1946 , at the age of 32 , that boo became popular as a singer , when he sang the sentimental song `` violer till mor '' -lrb- `` violets for mother '' -rrb- in the swedish radio show `` frukostklubben '' .
boo had already recorded the song on the sonora label , which at the time was one of the leading swedish record labels , and after the performance on `` frukostklubben '' , `` violer till mor '' sold 250,000 copies , which in 1946 was an extraordinarily high number .
boo became known for singing this kind of popular ballad , and made a large number of recordings .
his sobriquet was `` den sjungande bonden '' -lrb- `` the singing farmer '' -rrb- .
as the `` singing farmer '' , boo appeared in ten of the Åsa-nisse films between 1949 and 1966 .
boo did not consider himself an actor , but would sing one or more songs in the films .
bertil boo died of leukemia in 1996 .
