Greta Thunberg’s younger sister couldn’t be less interested in following in her sibling’s footsteps.
Greta Thunberg has spent years at the center of fighting for our planet. Her 20-year-old sister, Beata, has chosen a seemingly different path – a career in music.
Known professionally as Bea, the Stockholm-based singer and self-trained performer is currently completing her debut album while attracting a growing online following with theatrical covers of classic songs.
A live performance filmed at Musikaliska Kvarteret, described as Sweden’s oldest music hall, went viral earlier this year, with some American viewers convinced it had been generated by AI.
“At first, I was offended,” she told Interview Magazine.
“But then I took it as a compliment. People were fully convinced. There was a lot of hate as well.”
Bea taught herself to sing after becoming disillusioned with the classical music school she attended as a child, eventually choosing pop music instead.
From age 12 to 17 she played Edith Piaf in a stage production, an experience she says still shapes her vocal style today.
She has made a deliberate choice to keep her recordings unedited.
“I decided never to use it,” she said of vocal editing.
“I record everything live. I like it brutal and raw.”
Extremely short answer when asked about sister Greta
When asked about her relationship with Greta’s activism, Bea has kept it short.
“I’m not responsible for other people’s lives,” she said.
On the other hand she also opened up about the resistance she has encountered from male producers in the music industry.
“I have many straight male producers who tell me how to sing. They want to feel like they’ve taught me. A loud, young female is very provocative, especially to them because they want to have control.”
Bea described performing at a queer event hosted by Robert Fux from Drag Race Sweden as one of the most meaningful moments of her career so far. She even said it was the first time she truly felt recognized as an artist and wrote a song about the experience during her taxi ride home afterward.
Despite the two siblings having different career choices, they seem to be driven by a shared need for questioning the status quo.
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