Eddie Skoller(1944-2023)

The Danish entertainer Eddie Skoller was born in 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His father was a Russian jew and his mother Swedish, and they had fled to America during World War II. They moved to Denmark when Eddie was six, and he became a Danish citizen. As a young man he got a business degree and had several jobs before making his way into entertainment with a debut at Visevershuset in Tivoli of Copenhagen. He soon wrote his own one man shows and starred in popular Copenhagen renditions of the rock musicals Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 1970s. He made a name for himself as a politically conscious singer and entertainer and continued to take up new challenges, including starring in and managing the annual revue in Hjørring and, in 1986, acting in a leading role as Leo Mathisen in Take It Easy (1986). His primary outlet, however, has been a string of successful one man shows on tour or at Copenhagen's central stages. Eddie Skoller has been married three times, most recently to singer Sissel, and has five children.