Sven Lindahl

{{Short description|Swedish journalist, songwriter, radio and television presenter (born 1937)}}

Sven Gustaf Lindahl (born 25 June 1937, in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist, songwriter, radio and television presenter.{{cite journal |last1=Gänger |first1=Hasse |title=Sven Lindahl – vårt första stora nyhetsankare i TV |journal=Minnenas Journal |date=4 October 2016 |url=https://www.minnenasjournal.nu/sven-lindahl-vart-forsta-stora-nyhetsankare-i-tv/ |accessdate=20 November 2019}}

As a teenager, he played in a boogie-woogie band. After leaving school, he worked briefly as a welding apprentice in Luton and later studied at an iron foundry in Chesterfield, but eventually came to study journalism at Poppius Journalistskola before he started working at the local newspaper Västerort.

Lindahl has presented the radio show Svensktoppen for Sveriges Radio. Lindahl has hosted Melodifestivalen,{{cite journal |last1=Ohlsson |first1=Birgitta |title=Sven Lindahl: Jag blev kändis över en natt – vilken tur att jag hade en klok hustru! |journal=Hemmets Journal |date=25 April 2006 }} twice in 1963 and 1966. In addition Lindahl commented for Sweden at the 1964 and the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest. Since 1969 Lindahl has been a member of SKAP (Swedish composers of popular music).[http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/477/2007/06/444568 Grattis Mora Nisse...Ur Spår Sven Lindahl...]