As a seven year old, Torbjörn participated in a Swedish radio program called “Snurran”, broadcasted from Falun. He told a story in his native language “Malungsmål”. He acted as an auctionist from a village in Malung called Grimsåker and the listeners loved it.

The famous TV-profile Lennart Hyland heard about the programme and phoned Torbjörn and asked if he wanted to be part of his programme “Stora famnen” recorded live at Circus in Stockholm.
What do you think the answer was? The Expressen published on the 30th of January 1958: Torbjörn made a hugh success with his monologue illustrating auction in Grimsåker in his native language. Svenska Dagbladet described him as “…the kid from the big forests with the forgotten culture treasure.

Bandmembers in the Skintones
From the left Rolf Aspelin,
Erik Lihm, Christer Söderlind,
Torbjörn Korssell and
Bo Aspelin in front.

Skintones in the sixties.
Torbjörn to the very right with his saxophone
Handsome aren´t they with the Beatles-inspired look!

The band became very popular and played even as far away as in Norway. The newspapers wrote about them as the youngest pop-band there was in Sweden at that time, and with a drummer who was only 9 years old when the band started this was probably right. The band participated in several competitions and were amongst the 4-5 most popular bands in Dalarna. They were even part of several morning gatherings in school with different artists.The band now meets every tenth year to play

A placard with the Skintones
in the early days with Torbjörn
second from the right.

Skintones visited this girl from Hagfors at her home. That was the first prize she had won in a competition in the Skintones-newspaper..

Torbjörns business card.

Curt Börjes in the early seventies.
From the left Sten Olov Svensson, Jan-Erik Forsström, Jonny Jönsson, Bengt Matsson, Håkan Persson, Torbjörn Korssell

Scandinavians 1978. Torbjörn to the left.

In 1976 Torbjörn became a member of an other band called Scandinavians. A band working from Värmland and playing all over Scandinavia.

In 1979 Scandinavians were a part of EMA-Telstars artist offerings, where you also could find artists like ABBA and Thin Lizzy! This is what EMA-Telstar wrote about Scandinavians: "In Värmland there are many great dancebands. One of them is Scandinavians, a band loved both by young and old. There capability to play in many different musical styles is there strength. A band who puts effort in playing what the audience wants to hear."

After the years with Scandinavians, Torbjörn moved to Stockholm to study acting at a theatre-school called “Calle Flygare Teaterskola”. He also went to collage and became a music teacher. Immediately when he came to Stockholm he started singing Barbershop both in a chorus and a quartet. The chorus is called “Vocal Vikings” of which he later became director.
In the late eighties he came back to Malung as a teacher of music in compulsory school and upper secondary school. When he came back to Malung he stared playing in a band with his father-in-law. He also played on his own and with other friends and is still doing so. For the 10th summer in a row he has played the part of “Hans Gabrielsson” in an outdoor musical in Malungsfors called “Under samma himmel”.
A CD with the music from the musical is released.