{"id":3239,"date":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:31:17","slug":"kerstin-behrendtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"Kerstin Behrendtz"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clary Kerstin Margareta Behrendtz (18 August 1950 – 28 March 2020) was a Swedish radio presenter and director of music for Sveriges Radio's programmes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Biography<\/p>\r\n\r\n

She worked for Sveriges Radio, where she worked as a director who selected songs to be played in the radio stations programmes. She retired on 31 August 2017. On 7 October 2017, Behrendtz presented Jukeboxen on Sveriges Radio P4. She was part of the selection committee that decided what songs would take part in Melodifestivalen 2014. She was also part of the selection committee for the Swedish Music Hall of Fame from 2014 until her death.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Behrendtz was between 1972 and 1977 married to film director Thomas Samuelsson and they had two children together.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Behrendtz died on 28 March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

<\/p>\n \n \n

<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clary Kerstin Margareta Behrendtz (18 August 1950 – 28 March 2020) was a Swedish radio presenter and director of music for Sveriges Radio's programmes. Biography She worked for Sveriges Radio, where she worked as a director who selected songs to be played in the radio stations programmes. She retired on 31 August 2017. On 7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[46,7019],"tags":[6124,6123],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Kerstin_Behrendtz.jfif","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2306,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2306","url_meta":{"origin":3239,"position":0},"title":"Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing, Radio and television host","date":"April 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing \u2011 a Swedish television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother Sweden on Kanal 5 \u2011 died on 15 April 2020, at the age of 51, after suffering from COVID-19. Alsing moved to TV4 in 2005, presenting the Swedish version of Jeopardy!. He also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3999,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3999","url_meta":{"origin":3239,"position":1},"title":"Adam Alsing, TV and radio presenter","date":"April 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing \u2011 a Swedish television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother Sweden on Kanal 5 \u2013 died on 15 April 2020\u00a0 due to Covid-19. He moved to TV4 in 2005, presenting the Swedish version of Jeopardy!. He also presented his own show Adam Live.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3179,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3179","url_meta":{"origin":3239,"position":2},"title":"Olle Holmquist, trombonist","date":"March 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Bert Olav Holmquist \u2013a Swedish trombonist who was active in the European music scene since the 1960s \u2013 died on 26 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19. \u00a0 Holmquist was born in Skellefte\u00e5. A completely self-taught musician, he began his career in a Swedish armed forces band (I20). He first took\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1834,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1834","url_meta":{"origin":3239,"position":3},"title":"Ren\u00e9e Claude CM, actress & singer","date":"May 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Ren\u00e9e Claude CM \u2011 a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec \u2011 died on May 12, 2020 due to COVID-19. She was best known as an interpretive singer, particularly of songs by St\u00e9phane Venne, Michel Conte, Georges Brassens and L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9. She was born Ren\u00e9e B\u00e9langer, in Montreal. She studied\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Canada"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3185,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3185","url_meta":{"origin":3239,"position":4},"title":"Naomi Munakata","date":"March 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Naomi Munakata \u2013a Japanese-born Brazilian choral conductor and academic teacher based in the city of S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 died on 26 March 2020 due to Covid-19. \u00a0 She was conductor of OSESP, the choir of the Orquestra Sinf\u00f4nica do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, from 1995 to 2013, and then principal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Brazil"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2086,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2086","url_meta":{"origin":3239,"position":5},"title":"Gene Shay, disc jockey","date":"April 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Gene Shay \u2011 an American radio personality \u2011 died at the age of 85, on April 17, 2020 from COVID-19 in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. Shay was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was a representative of the city's folk music scene. He produced weekly folk radio shows since 1962 (now\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Noteworthy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}