Åke Raask

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Åke Raask is a fictive Swedish singer from the 1970s played by the Swedish actor Carl-Johan Sundberg.

The character Raask is a Swedish singer and entertainer supposedly born 28 April 1948 in Hammar, Sweden and active in Sweden and West Germany in the 1970s; at the end of the decade he is supposed to have emigrated to the United States.

Sundberg has performed as Raask, together with the (also fictive) dance music orchestra Kenny Silwers Orkester on various entertainment venues in Sweden, especially in Gothenburg and on the Swedish west coast. Raask sings Swedish and German dance and Schlager songs of the period, and in clothes, hairstyle and the design of his (fictive) 1970s albums (as described on his website), he is a parody of the Swedish dance music subculture of the time.