The love story between the artist Martin “E-Type” Erikson58, and the foster mother Melinda Jacobs39, began when they met through their mutual friends Sara and Patrick. In April 2022, Martin and Melinda went public with the fact that they were a couple, and since then things have gone downhill.
On January 23 earlier this year, the couple’s daughter was born Isadoraand for Martin, the moving load has recently gone to Vadstena, where he lives with Melinda and all the children.
Melinda Jacobs with daughter Izadora. Image source: Stella Picture.
On September 16, the wedding bells rang for Melinda and Martin. In Vadstena church, in front of over 300 guests, the couple was married Ulf Kristerssons wife Birgitta Ed.
E-Type and Melinda Jacobs get married in Vadstena church. Image source: SVT
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SVT makes the documentary E-Type – The way I wanna live
IN SVT’s new documentary E-Type The way I wanna live so we get to follow Martin’s career – from the many chart-toppers in the 90s when he mangled Eurodance songs like “Set the world on fire” and “This is the way”, up to the hard rock band Dampf that he devotes himself to today.
But the focus is not only on the music in the documentary, but the viewers also get to know more about Melinda.
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Melinda Jacobs fell for Martin’s big heart.
– He is incredibly generous and empathetic. He has a huge heart. Then he is fun to be with. He’s fun. And I laugh with him, but also at him sometimes. He is unique. He is easy to love, says Melinda in the documentary.
That it would be Martin and Melinda was not obvious from the beginning. They come from very different worlds.
Melinda Jacobs. Image source: Stella Pictures.
Martin has toured, partied and basically just had to think about himself. Melinda is his exact opposite. She became known to the Swedish people under very tragic circumstances. She was a foster mother Esmeraldaor “Little Heart” as she came to be known.
Melinda fought hard so that Esmeralda’s biological parents would not get custody of Esmeralda, as both parents were in active addiction. But Melinda was not listened to. The biological parents received custody of Esmeralda. On January 30, 2020, Esmeralda was found dead.
Her biological parents had killed her. Esmeralda was only three years old.
E-Type on Melinda Jacobs: “She’s the hardest person I’ve ever met”
Today, Melinda is a foster mother to several children, and she also has several children of her own from previous relationships. In SVT’s documentary, Martin talks about the couple’s differences.
– I am in love with this woman. She’s the toughest I’ve ever met. But she has a pack. It is partly that she never goes to the pub, or drinks alcohol, parties, parties or derails. It doesn’t exist. It is incredibly structured. And she also has this many children, says E-Type, holding up all the fingers of both hands.
E-Type and Melinda Jacobs with daughter Izadora. Image source: SVT
– More than once I have sat on a stump in the forest and thought about “how do I solve this?”. Not just “do I want to? Shall I change my life so there is nothing left of my old life?”. And the second thing is: Do I fix this? I can still feel, ‘How do I solve this?'” says Martin, talking about everyday life as a parent and the challenges that can come in the form of crying children, poopy diapers and more.
Melinda Jacobs reveals why she split from ex-husband: “Pretty much…”
In the documentary, Martin tells more about his reasoning, and about how he has changed his life since he met Melinda Jacobs and became a father himself.
– At the same time, you mustn’t forget that the one she got to know and fell in love with… I remove that part and become square, buy a watch and get a haircut. Then it’s not me. I don’t know if she likes it. So it’s a matter of sharpening up, taking one step less and not derailing too much. But at the same time, I must not lose myself, says E-Type in the documentary.