[4] Hambe was born in Rävinge near Halmstad in Halland, on the west coast of Sweden.

His father, Johan Hambe, was a teacher and headmaster at the local primary school, and also played the piano and wrote poetry.

[5] He moved to Gothenburg in 1956, and had several temporary teaching jobs until the mid 1960s, when he became a full-time author, composer and singer.

Hambe wrote more than 500 songs and poems, often inspired by the nature surrounding the place where he lived, and released more than 20 records.

[3] What made him original was his poetic and very personal way of using the Swedish language, sometimes by creating new words.