Bokken Lasson

Caroline "Bokken" Lasson (7 January 1871 – 3 August 1970) was a Norwegian concert and cabaret singer. She is known for starting the Oslo cabaret Chat Noir in 1912, and also for introducing the children's song "Tuppen og Lillemor" to the Norwegian public.

Early and personal life Caroline Lasson was born in Christiania as the daughter of lawyer Christian Otto Carl Lasson and Alexandra Cathrine Henriette von Munthe af Morgenstierne. She was a granddaughter of lawyer and politician Peder Carl Lasson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway. She was a sister of composer Per Lasson and painter Oda Krohg, and sister-in-law of the painters Christian Krohg and Frits Thaulow. She had a close relation to the Danish writer Holger Drachmann, who later married her sister. She was married to Russian writer Michael Semionovitsch Feofanoff from 1904 to 1916, She died in Oslo in 1970, 99 years old. She advanced from street singer to performing at cabarets and restaurants, and occasionally in musical comedies and plays, including performances at the Königliche Hoftheater in Stuttgart. Bokken Lasson chaired the Chat Noir until 1917, and the cabaret has lasted until today, more than hundred years. She made her first song recording in 1912, the songs "Tuppen og Lillemor" and "Det lille Vandspand". The 1912 recording of "Tuppen og Lillemor" is also found on the 1983 album .

Select bibliography , 1920 , 1931 , 1938 , 1940 , 1947

Selected recordings "Tuppen og Lillemor" (1912) "Det lille Vandspand" (1912) "Maisangen" (1912) "Sorte øine" (1912) "Dukkerne" (1913) "O du søde glade jul" (1913) "Pierrot henter månen" (1913) "Hvor meget må man tjene" (1957) "Våren i Kristiania" (1957)