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Persone was a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm active from 1986 to 2002. Their lyrics were written entirely in the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto. The band performed primarily at  Esperanto festivals and youth conventions in Europe. During this time they became one of the best known rock bands within the Esperanto-speaking community and released five albums on the French record label Vinilkosmo, which specializes in recordings aimed at this audience.

The band's name is a play on the Esperanto phrase per sono "through sound" and the word persone "personally".

The band's name means "personally" in Esperanto, which in Esperanto could also be read as an adverb derived from the phrase per sono "through sound".

Band members
Persone's original lineup from 1986 to 1988 consisted of:
 * Martin Wiese — electric guitar, lead vocals
 * Börje Lund — electric guitar, bass, backing vocals
 * Bertilo Wennergren — drums, backing vocals
 * Per Ola Axelsson — saxophone, backing vocals

From 1990 till 2002:
 * Martin Wiese — electric and acoustic guitar, flute, tambourine, cymbals, dumbec, lead vocals
 * Anders Grop — electric bass, double bass, backing vocals
 * Bertilo Wennergren — drums, acoustic guitar, backing vocals

History
The group was created in 1986 for the first Cultural Esperanto Festival (Kultura Esperanto-Festivalo). The idea came from Börje Lund, who also came up with the name, a simple play on words between person-e ("personally") and per-son-e ("through sound"), and recruited the other three members: Martin Wiese, Bertilo Wennegren, and Per Ola Axelsson. Their first practice was on March 7, 1986, and many more took place in a house in Stockholm regularly until May 9. The concert at the Cultural Esperanto Festival took place on May 17 in the same city, and Persone received an overwhelming positive public response, after which the band decided to stay together.

The band was originally organized by bass player Börje Lund in 1986 with the intention of performing a single concert at the first Esperanto Cultural Festival (Kultura Esperanto-Festivalo or KEF) in 1986. Lund recruited three other Esperanto-speaking Stockholm musicians for the band, Martin Wiese, Bertil "Bertilo" Wennegren, a drummer who had previously played and recorded with the Esperanto rock band Amplifiki, and Per Ola Axelsson, a saxophonist who was active in the Stockholm music scene and played in other local bands. Lund is also credited with coming up with the band's name, Persone, which means "personally" in Esperanto, but also evokes the phrase per sono "through sound" and sone, an Esperanto word meaning "in sound", "in terms of sound" or "sonicly".

After practice sessions starting in early March of that year and a "test performance" in May before a group of friends, the band performed at. The band continued. The following year they performed at the centennial in Warsaw, Poland. This included an appearance at the convention itself as well as an outdoor performance at Warsaw's

The band was organized by bass player Börje Lund, who recruited other Esperanto-speaking Stockholm musicians to perform a concert at the first Esperanto Cultural Festival (Kultura Esperanto-Festivalo or KEF) scheduled for May 1986 in Stockholm. The other musicians were Bertil "Bertilo" Wennegren, a drummer who had played and recorded with the Esperanto rock band Amplifiki, Per Ola Axelsson, a saxophonist who was active in the Stockholm music scene, and Martin Wiese, a singer song-writer who became the band's lead singer and wrote much their material.

After a successful concert at KEF, the band continued performing, with concerts The following year they performed at Universala Krongreso. Their performance at the convention was followed by a public performance

Discography

 * 62 minutoj (1987) "62 minutes"


 * En la spegulo (1991) "In the mirror"


 * Povus esti simple (1996) "It could be simple"


 * ... sed estas ne (1999) "... but it's not"


 * Sen (2002) "Without"

The song "Reĝoj de cindro" was featured in Vinilkosmo's compilation album Vinilkosmo kompil' 1 (1995). The album ...Sed Estas Ne was included in Kolekto 2000.