Jacob Dahlin
Hans Jacob Vilhelm Dahlin was a Swedish TV and radio host.
Early life
Dahlin was born on 6 June 1952 in, Scania, Sweden.Career
He hosted his first radio program Galaxen in the beginning of the 1980s. Guests included Swedish comedian. He later acted on television shows including ' and '. In almost every episode of Jacobs stege, Dahlin used the catchphrase "Skål, ta mig fan!".Dahlin studied the Russian language and often reported about happenings in Russian popular culture. He also went to Moscow with his TV-show Jacobs stege, broadcasting with the Russian television show, The Morning Post, with Yury Nikolayev as host. Nikolayev later got invited to Sweden to be on Jacobs stege, and brought with him Russian pop icon Alla Pugacheva.
Pugacheva and Dahlin became friends and she was a frequent guest on his TV-show. One night he had the Soviet and US ambassadors as guests on his TV show, speaking to them fluently in their own languages. Dahlin also recorded with Pugacheva, including the single "Superman" as a duet. The recording led to Pugacheva getting to record her first entire English-language album, Watch Out, which was released in 1985.
Guests on his television show included Diana Ross, Boy George, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Janet Jackson, Tina Turner, Cher, Donna Summer, Liza Minnelli, ABBA, Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Eros Ramazzotti, Rod Stewart, Matia Bazar, Tommy Körberg, Roxette, Alla Pugacheva, and others.