Artist Info: Reet Hendrikson

Born:June 21, 1944, Pärnu, Pärnu maakond, Estonia
Died:October 16, 2000 Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Reet Hendrikson was born in Estonia only months before the “great escape” into exile in 1944. Brought up and educated in Sweden, she went to study in the US in 1967 on a Fulbright scholarship, before she made her mark as an Estonian musician in Canada. While her arrangements of Estonian folksongs on the guitar reflected the styles of the sixties [read more...]