Hans Rotmo

{{Short description|Norwegian singer and songwriter (1948–2024)}}

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| name = Hans Rotmo

| image = Hans Rotmo under Feginsfestivalen i Trondheim 1982. Foto Idar Lind..jpg

| caption = Rotmo during the Feginsfestival in Trondheim 1982
(Photo: Idar Lind)

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|3|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Verdal Municipality, Norway

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|10|24|1948|3|10|df=y}}

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| occupation = Singer, songwriter

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Hans Per Rotmo (10 March 1948 – 24 October 2024) was a Norwegian singer and songwriter, known by most Norwegians as the leading figure of 1970s folk-rock band {{ill|Vømmøl Spellmannslag|no}},{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1092232|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Hans Rotmo|last=Birchmeier|first=Jason|publisher=AMG|accessdate=15 May 2010}} and also known as the writer of hit songs like "Fire fine lænestola" and the Christmas tune "Vårres jul". Rotmo sang in his own dialect, from Verdal Municipality.

Rotmo was a supporter of the revolutionary communist movement AKP(m-l) in his younger years, and many of the lyrics of his songs, especially those from the Vømmøl period, are influenced by the thoughts of Mao Zedong and Karl Marx, although the surface content of most of these songs concern the population of rural Norway, the industrial progress that followed World War II, and the effects of the latter on the former.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Vømmøl Spellmannslag |first=Hilde |last=Vesaas |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Vømmøl_Spellmannslag |language=no |access-date=28 October 2024}}See also lyrics of the song hit "Det e itjnå som kjem tå sæ sjøl".