Electric Banana Band is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 children's music/rock music band formed in 1977.

History

Electric Banana Band was formed as a response to the success of Trazan och Banarne, a highly acclaimed Swedish children's television programme, also produced by two of the band members, Lasse Åberg

Lasse Åberg

Lars Gunnar Åberg , better known as Lasse Åberg, is a Swedish actor, musician, film director and artist. He was born in the small town Hofors, but grew up in Stockholm...

 and Klasse Möllberg. The band takes on a jungle theme, partially borrowing elements from The Phantom

The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...

, a widely popular comic in Sweden, as well as Tarzan

Tarzan

Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...

. Their jungle theme included both their costumes, designed to reflect the nicknames of the lineup, as well as the songs, which usually had nature-inspired themes.

Despite being mainly a studio band, the band does some occasional touring, mainly at free events as the members of the band are not dependent upon the success of the band.

In the 2003 film Smala Sussie the band was mentioned several times and became somewhat of a comedic plot element.

In 2006, the band made an unexpected appearance at the annual Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

 (The Swedish national selections to the Eurovision song contest) with their song Kameleont (Chameleon).

Members

• Lasse Åberg - Lead Vocals
• Klasse Möllberg - Lead Vocals
• Janne Schaffer
  Janne Schaffer
  Jan Erik Tage Janne Schaffer is a Swedish songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as a session guitarist for ABBA but he has also recorded with artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Art Farmer and Tony Williams...
  
  - Guitar
• Peter Ljung - Keyboards
• Mårgan Höglund - Drums
• Pablo Cepeda - Percussion
• Thobias Gabrielsson - Bass guitar
• Sebastian Rilton - Vocals
• Daniel Greayer - Vocals
• Linnéa Olsson - Vocals
• Matilda Lindell - Vocals
• Mia Öhman - Vocals

Discography

• 1977 - Sångtajm med Trazan och Banarne
• 1978 - É bananerna fina?
• 1981 - Electric Banana Band
• 1983 - Banantårta och tigerkaka
• 1984 - Djungelmums
• 1984 - Livet i regnskogarna
• 1986 - The golden years
• 1998 - Electric banana tajm
• 1999 - Trazan & Banarnes bästa
• 2000 - Nu e're djur igen
• 2005 - Electric Banana Bands och Trazan & Banarnes bästa
• 2006 - Kameleont

Filmography

• 1980 - Trazan Apansson - original TV-serien
• 1981 - Videotajm med Trazan & Banarne
• 1998 - EBB the movie