Emil helped Thomas Helmig make a tribute album for Hugo Helmig: I miss Hugo just as much today, as I did when he passed away.

Emil helped Thomas Helmig create a tribute album for Hugo Helmig: I miss Hugo just as much today as I did when he passed away

Two years ago, Hugo Helmig, only 24 years old, passed away. For his musical partner, Emil Falk, the loss is still significant.

Hugo Helmig gained popularity in both Denmark and Germany in 2017. Here he is with Emil Falk in the studio. Photo: private 39 minutes ago

Last week, Thomas Helmig released his critically acclaimed album 'Sortedam' ().

The seven songs on the album were written shortly after Hugo Helmig's son's death in 2022. Or, they were more like poems. About sorrow and longing and loss, which the 24-year-old Hugo Helmig left behind.

When Thomas Helmig had written the poems, he contacted Emil Falk – Hugo Helmig's musical partner and close friend. He asked if Emil Falk would join him in the studio. Mostly just to be together. But also to look at the texts Thomas Helmig had written.

Emil Falk said yes.

- And then he sent me these texts, which he had written. They're about sorrow and about Hugo. It's such a thing where I read a line and then it becomes almost too hard, Emil Falk tells DR's podcast Genstart ().

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Great expectations for Hugo Helmig

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When Hugo Helmig passed away two years ago, Emil Falk had known him for more than 10 years. Already at the age of 16, Hugo Helmig was discovered by the music industry, and Emil Falk – who was also a producer at the time – was brought together with him. There were great expectations for what Hugo Helmig could become, and Emil Falk was to help him.

Hugo Helmig and Emil Falk in the studio together in 2020. It was also in the studio here that they first began working together, when Hugo Helmig was still a teenager. (Photo: © Sebastian Stokkebo Sørensen, DR)

They spent hundreds of hours together in Emil Falk's studio. Together, they wrote among other things the song Please Don’t Lie, which was Hugo Helmig's first single – and a huge hit.

Today, many years later, Emil Falk cannot help but wonder. What if they hadn't written that song? What if Hugo Helmig's career hadn't been kickstarted in that way? How would his life have looked?

Here, two years later, the sorrow still lingers.

- I still miss Hugo just as much today as I did when he passed away. But it's clear that, what we're doing now, talking about it, I wouldn't have been able to do a year ago. So in a way, I've moved on.

You can listen to the entire interview with Emil Falk in Genstart here ().

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