Felipe Leiva Wenger's Triumph: Using 'Ortensvenska' as a Weapon

Growing up in the suburbs was "like a mini-UN". Children from all over the world spoke in 'ortensvenska'. Felipe Leiva Wenger felt ashamed as the "outsider", but found his revenge as "Lilla Al-Fadji" on P3, and as rapper Fille in "Ison och Fille".

In the courtyard of Vårberg, he was free, where summer smelled of dandelions and asphalt. Outside, Wenger discovered he was the "outsider" who didn't fit in – the language, the appearance – he feared being laughed at.

It is a delicate, poetic summer talk, a son's love letter to his Chilean mother, a dental student who fled with her children and became a cleaner in Sweden, but who rejoiced that she and her sons were free.

A gray phone in the hall became the bridge to his father in Chile, but neither patience nor language sufficed in the end. At night, the mother wrote letters that were never sent, she cried in silence and struggled during the days.

All experiences in a little boy created an observer, alert and sensitive to everything.

All parts of him come out in the music, as Fille in "Ison och Fille". And as "Lilla Al-Fadji", the P3 character who is the outsider in the suburb who takes revenge with humor. Both are heard in the program.

I miss the passion and anger, but Wenger is a middle-aged father now, giving what he didn't receive as a child, and that's a good thing.