Micael Bindefeld

Micael Bindefeld (born 20 September 1959) is a Swedish event and party organiser. Bindefeld grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in Gothenburg. His father was an engineer and his mother was a dental nurse. In his youth he went to Göteborgs Högre Samskola. Bindefeld educated himself to be a hairdresser; he became popular and started doing hair for celebrities in Stockholm. He organized his first event in 1987, and since then Bindefeld has evolved from creator and party organiser to communications strategist. He played himself in the films Adam & Eva (1997) and Livet är en schlager (2000). He hosted Sommar i P1, which was broadcast on Sveriges Radio in 2010. In 2014 he started the Micael Bindefeld foundation for the memory of the Holocaust. Bindefeld himself is Jewish and had relatives who were killed in the Holocaust.