Singer and musician Mike Tramp is current with the album Stand your ground, and although home address is Jakarta, the starting point for the whole growing up in Vesterbro.

Mike Tramp, born Michael Trempenau, familiar with both Istedgade where we meet at Zakabona just behind the shooting range Haven, where he has worn out 200 pairs of sneakers.

Although the music career that really took off when he won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978 with the song Boom Boom with the band Mabel, has taken him to both the U.S. and now Jakarta, where he lives with his wife and their shared two small children, the core in its entirety Vesterbro.

'Vesterbro is everything. When I'm home in Denmark and go around here, wow, it all fits together. There is such a logic to it, and so it was to grow up here, "says Mike Tramp, who grew up with a single mother with brothers Dennis and Mike. In a small apartment in Eskild Street right next Vesterbro Ungdomsgård.

"It was a great time. When we came over, it was just luck. There was love and intimacy, and the adults dare touch the kids - it's unthinkable today. There was also a firm hand, but what Bo Schiøler. Has given me is invaluable, and the simplicity and rigor, was fantastic. I remember when he cried;? Now hold the fuck shut up? If we were noisy or not listening - and we loved it because it was love "says Mike Tramp, who went on Enghave School and from 4 -. class spent every afternoon and later tonight at the youth house.

"It was here that I learned to play and they believed in me. Kim is still my idol - everything I've learned is from his simple chords, and it is also what characterizes my music today - the simple chords, "says Mike Tramp, and takes a sip of tea.

"I hardly touches alcohol: Yes, I may as well drink a few beers and share a bottle of wine or two with a good friend, and when I'm in Melbourne, where my great son Dylan live, he says? You daddy need a beer?. But when I grew up with teachers who sent one to the grocery store during recess to buy green Tuborg, green and Cecil Green Läkerol, then you have the very strange with alcohol - I've never drank or touched a cigarette. "

"My brother Kim is an alcoholic and party hours junkie, and we have spent so much energy on him, my mother, brother and me."

Mike Tramp is no stranger to the idea of ​​moving to Denmark.

'This is my home, but I have a wife and two small children and a great son in Australia, and now I can not just make decisions for myself, but have to think about them - but I've just been down in the countryside with my other brother Dennis, and we worked hard and work and it was beautiful. "

Mike Tramp inform the black locks in the mirror behind the journalist. He just turned 50 years, and though years have gotten hold of him and hair color are now actually have a function, he is still a crumpet - a vesterbro swath.