Josva owned Vega with a delightfully low‑ego presence—but he didn’t quite land as a fully fledged artist in his own right.

There’s something oddly refreshing about someone who’s completely free of main‑character syndrome

There’s something refreshing about Josva—no trace of main‑character syndrome, just taking things in his stride. But it’s hard to feel what’s really at stake for him as an artist. Foto: Loui Pedersen
There’s something refreshing about Josva—no trace of main‑character syndrome, just taking things in his stride. But it’s hard to feel what’s really at stake for him as an artist. Foto: Loui Pedersen
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Josva is one of the mellower presences in Danish pop — much of his concert at Vega on Thursday night seemed to unfold at a pulse that would make Bjarne Corydon (former finance minister) green with envy.

If not for the microphone in his hand, which now and then had to be raised to his mouth, the show might well have been performed with arms folded from start to finish.

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