Roger Pontare

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Fred Roger Pontare

| image = Roger Pontare.png

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| caption = Roger Pontare

| background = solo_singer

| birth_name = Roger Johansson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1951|10|17}}

| birth_place = Slagnäs, Sweden

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| genre = Folk pop
Schlager

| occupation = Singer

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| years_active = 1976–present}}

Fred Roger Pontare (born Roger Johansson; 17 October 1951) is a Swedish musician. He lives in Bjuråker in Hudiksvalls kommun.

Pontare was born in Arjeplog Municipality, and is of Sami descent. He has represented Sweden twice in the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1994 (duet with Marie Bergman) with "Stjärnorna" and in 2000 with "When Spirits Are Calling My Name", placing 13th and 7th, respectively. In 2018, he participated in the Swedish TV-show Stjärnornas stjärna broadcast on TV4.[https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2018-03-15/stjarnor-tavlar-i-nya-genrer-livradd Stjärnor tävlar i nya genrer] Sydsvenskan, Retrieved 20 November 2021

Personal life

Roger Pontare is father to Viktor and Vincent Pontare. The latter is well known singer songwriter with the mononym Vincent and as Vargas as part of the duo Vargas & Lagola.

Discography

=Albums=

class="wikitable" ! style="width:10px;" rowspan="2" \| Year ! style="width:200px;" rowspan="2" \| Album ! colspan="1" \| Chart positions ! style="width:100px;" rowspan="2" \| Certification
style="width:40px; font-size:smaller;" \| SWE
style="text-align:center;" \| 1995 \| Sinatrafied \| style="text-align:center;" \| — \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 1995 \| Julens sånger \| style="text-align:center;" \| — \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 1999 \| Som av Is \| style="text-align:center;" \| — \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 2000 \| När vindarna viskar mitt namn \| style="text-align:center;" \| 39 \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 2000 \| When Spirits Are Calling My Name \| style="text-align:center;" \| — \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 2000 \| I vargens spår \| style="text-align:center;" \| 9 \| style="text-align:center;" \| GLF: Gold
style="text-align:center;" \| 2002 \| Den stora friheten \| style="text-align:center;" \| — \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 2006 \| Från Stjärnorna till Silverland \| style="text-align:center;" \| 37 \| style="text-align:center;" \|
style="text-align:center;" \| 2011 \| Mitt vinterland \| style="text-align:center;" \| — \| style="text-align:center;" \|

class="wikitable"

! style="width:10px;" rowspan="2" | Year

! style="width:200px;" rowspan="2" | Album

! colspan="1" | Chart positions

! style="width:100px;" rowspan="2" | Certification

style="width:40px; font-size:smaller;" | SWE

style="text-align:center;" | 1995

| Sinatrafied

| style="text-align:center;" | —