Overview
Music director Gullan Bornemark became known as "Aunt Gullan" to an entire nation when she sang her own songs on television. She modernized the children’s song, and generations of Swedes can sing along to the choruses of "Min kära lilla ponny" and "Sudda sudda (bort din sura min)." She wrote 400 songs and received her first Grammis award in 2019, at the age of 91.
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