Reet Hendrikson is as mysterious a musical figure as may exist in our modern, internet saturated culture. As the vast wealth of human knowledge is unceasingly compiled by data-crawling serpents and strewn before us in the form of RSS feeds, news aggregators and endless Wiki's, Reet Hendrikson remains an uncertainty. Search as you might, there is little to illuminate her history online. An Estonian teenage girl singing sweet songs of forlorn loss and labor. Her only album, 'Reet', released in 1969, out of Canada, on Reindeer Records.
Here is the track listing, descriptions and English translations of the song titles, as printed on the back of the original vinyl.
Reet was born in Estonia in 1944, the family soon went (fled) to Sweden and Reet grew up in Uppsala ( north of Stockholm) where she graduate din 1963. She went to US and Canada on a scholarship (Natural sciences) for some years but returned to Sweden where she died in 2000.
ReplyDeleteShe was an introspect person, devoted to music, and very much liked by her class-mates.