Åke Raask is a fictive Swedish singer from the 1970s played by the Swedish actor Carl-Johan Sundberg.

The character Raask is a Swedish singer and entertainer supposedly born 28 April 1948 in Hammar

Hammar

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, Sweden

Sweden

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 and active in Sweden and West Germany

West Germany

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 in the 1970s; at the end of the decade he is supposed to have emigrated to the United States

United States

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.

Sundberg has performed as Raask, together with the (also fictive) dance music orchestra Kenny Silwers Orkester on various entertainment venues in Sweden, especially in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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 and on the Swedish west coast. Raask sings Swedish and German dance and Schlager

Schlager

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songs of the period, and in clothes, hairstyle and the design of his (fictive) 1970s albums (as described on his website), he is a parody of the Swedish dance music subculture of the time.