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Tobias Jens Forge (Swedish pronunciation: [tʊˈbǐːas ˈjɛns ˈfɔ̌rːɡɛ]; [1] born March 3, 1981) is a Swedish musician. He is the frontman, leader and primary songwriter of the masked rock band Ghost, performing live as their vocalist under the stage names Papa Emeritus and Cardinal Copia.
Rite Here Rite Now is a 2024 American concert film directed by Tobias Forge and Alex Ross Perry.It features Swedish rock band Ghost performing at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on the final two North American dates of their 2023 Re-Imperatour concert tour.
All versions of Papa Emeritus are actually the same vocalist, Tobias Forge. [ 170 ] [ 171 ] Peter Hällje, a former bandmate of former Ghost member Martin Persner, claimed he designed the Papa Emeritus character in 2005, prior to the formation of Ghost.
Papa IV, alias Tobias Forge, performs with Swedish heavy metal band Ghost in Milan, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images) Over the past decade, bombastic, theatric, operatic metal ...
Since the band's inception, Forge has performed under several incarnations of pope-like personas bearing the title of "Papa Emeritus". For the release of the band's 2018 album Prequelle , as well as their 2018–2020 concert tour A Pale Tour Named Death , Forge performed in the persona of "Cardinal Copia", a character who, at the final show of ...
The discography of Ghost, a Swedish rock band, consists of five studio albums, two live albums, four extended plays (EPs), thirteen singles and fourteen music videos.Formed in Linköping in 2008, Ghost (formerly known as Ghost B.C. in the US) is composed of nine anonymous members – vocalist Papa Emeritus (revealed in 2017 to be Tobias Forge; all of the band's other frontmen are Forge under a ...
The tour featured lead singer Tobias Forge performing under the persona of "Cardinal Copia". Prior to the Copia persona, Ghost had been led by a succession of pope-like personas—Papa Emeritus I, Papa Emeritus II, and Papa Emeritus III—all played by Forge.
Forge was inspired by the music diversity that Queen would have with their albums, feeling that Ghost could similarly use some diversity. [11] Lyrically, the song is about the Black Plague – a theme across the entire Prequelle album – specifically about how people would literally dance and party until they died to cope with the illness.