Martin Best (born 13 April 1942)[1] is an English singer, lutenist, guitarist, and composer.
Best got a position at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid 1960s[3] and remained associated with them for over 30 years as an actor-singer, musician and composer.
[7] Songs from the two first albums were later collected on a CD, also named To Carl Michael with Love.
Forsling notes that Sven-Bertil Taube and Fred Åkerström gave Bellman's songs a new, earthy realism ideal for the 20th century, but argues that Best is closer to how Bellman must have sounded, "though not theatrical enough if the ear-witnesses' are to be relied on.
"[9] Other Swedish song poets performed by Best include Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929), with one album released in 1979.