14 DAY TRIAL // Ace of Base was one of the most popular pop groups of yesteryear and, even today, you can’t possibly listen to one of their songs and not think happy thoughts. As it turns out, one of its founding members was in a neo-Nazi group.
Vice’s Noisey has learned that Ulf Ekberg has one huge skeleton in the closet and it’s clawing its way out of there right now, after so many years.
Noisey writes that the secret has been kept in plain sight all these years, with Ulf addressing the issue only once, saying that it was a closed chapter in his life – but there are signings pointing that this isn’t really the case.
“Ulf Ekberg, a founding member of Ace of Base, started his career as a neo-Nazi skinhead. Not only that, he created a platform for his ideals through his Nazi punk band, Commit Suiside, which sang songs with ‘explicit racist lyrics’,” Noisey writes.
“Ekberg was also a member of the Sweden Democrats, a political party that has publicly ‘rejected’ any ties to neo-Nazism,” it says.
“This is interesting, considering the fact that the group was founded by Nazis, and active members still maintain connections with contemporary hate groups. For example, Anders Klarström, the former head of the Sweden Democrats. Funny enough, Klarström was also a member of Commit Suiside with Ekberg,” adds the same media outlet.
Even today, Ulf still seems to have some ties with certain suspicious groups, Noisey writes. So this begs the question: could he have been using the Ace of Base fame and exposure to erase his past but continue as before?
The Noisey editor seems to think that way.
On the same note, how much of this were his bandmates aware of?
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