Kenneth "Kenta" Gustafsson, (mostly known just as Kenta) (August 11, 1948 – March 3, 2003), was a Swedish

Sweden

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 musician.

Gustafsson was born in Nacka

Nacka

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, Sweden. He grew up in Vällingby

Vällingby

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, a suburb northwest of Stockholm

Stockholm

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. Early in his life Kenta had problems with alcohol and drug addictions, which was the subject for the three documentaries by Stefan Jarl

Stefan Jarl

Stefan Jarl is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. He made the Mods Trilogy, three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, They Call Us Misfits , A Respectable Life and Det sociala arvet...

 known as The Mod Trilogy

They Call Us Misfits

They Call Us Misfits is a 1968 Swedish documentary film directed, produced and written by Stefan Jarl and Jan Lindqvist. The film is an uncompromising account of the life of two alienated teenagers, Kenneth "Kenta" Gustafsson and Gustav "Stoffe" Svensson...

. He competed in the Swedish qualifying round for The Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

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 in 1980 with the song Utan att fråga, finishing sixth place. His biggest hit was Just idag är jag stark a song about feeling strong after struggling with addiction. He was known as a supporter of the Swedish

Sweden

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 football team

Football team

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 Hammarby IF

Hammarby IF

Hammarby Fotboll is a Swedish football club based in Johanneshov - just south of Södermalm, the southernmost district of Stockholm city centre...

 who adopted Just idag är jag stark as their anthem.

He died in Järfälla, Sweden in 2003.

Selected filmography

• 1968 – They Call Us Misfits
  They Call Us Misfits
  They Call Us Misfits is a 1968 Swedish documentary film directed, produced and written by Stefan Jarl and Jan Lindqvist. The film is an uncompromising account of the life of two alienated teenagers, Kenneth "Kenta" Gustafsson and Gustav "Stoffe" Svensson...
  
  
• 1979 – A Respectable Life
• 1993 – From Misfits To Yuppies

Discography

• 1979 – Kenta
• 1981 – Kan det va' fel på systemet?
• 1981 – August & Kenta LP
• 2000 – Kenta: Guldkorn 1979-81
• 2003 – På nattlig vandring