Saturday, October 16, 2021
Climate protection festival in Stockholm
Greta dances and sings “Never gonna give you up”
She is an icon of the global climate movement, was a speaker at the UN climate summit and she is full of surprises – Greta Thunberg inspires fans in Stockholm when she sings and sings Rick Astley’s number one hit “Never gonna give you up” together with another climate activist dance to it.
Nobody expected that: the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg surprised the visitors of a concert in favor of climate protection in Stockholm with a singing interlude. Together with another climate activist, the 18-year-old bellowed the 80s hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley in front of a cheering crowd this Saturday evening and danced to it.
According to the Swedish newspaper “Aftonbladet”, it was the first time that Thunberg showed her singing skills in public. “We are ultimately just teenagers fooling around with each other, not just the angry children who the media often portray us as,” she told the newspaper after the performance.
In any case, Greta should be no stranger to show business: Both her mother Malena Ernman (50) and her sister Beata Ernman Thunberg (16) are in the music business, as “Aftonbladet” noted. Mother Malena, who is actually an opera singer, even represented her home country in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009.
The concert on Saturday in Stockholm was part of a series organized by the climate activists “Fridays for Future” and the festival organizer Livegreen under the title “Climate live” in 45 countries. Artists such as the Swedish singer and songwriter Lars Winnerbäck and the indie pop duo Aid Kit performed.