Artist Info: Barbara Helsingius

Barbara Christina Elisabeth Helsingius-Koski, née Helsingius (27 September 1937 – 9 March 2017), was a Swedish-speaking Finnish olympic fencer, singer and poet.

She participated at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Trained as a gym teacher, she took her masters in pedagogy at Stanford University (1963). Interested in American art and folk music, she began to record, and her first release, (1966) was a collection of American folk songs, translated to Finnish. [read more...]