Bodø is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø. Some of the notable villages in Bodø include Misvær, Skjerstad, Saltstraumen, Løding, Løpsmarka, Kjerringøy, Sørvær, and Fenes.
Marit Elisabeth Larsen is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She began playing violin at age of 5 and played it until the age of 8. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. She then pursued her own music career, releasing her debut solo album Under the Surface in 2006. Her second album, The Chase, was released in Norway in October 2008. Her third album, titled Spark was released in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland on 18 November 2011, and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 16 December 2011. Her fourth studio album When the Morning Comes was released on 20 October 2014. Larsen toured in its support within Norway with her own concerts, played songs from the album in Germany and Switzerland at public festivals and was the opening act at two of Johannes Oerding's concerts in November 2015.
Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, better known by his stage name Kygo, is a Norwegian DJ, songwriter and record producer.
Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen, better known simply as Ida Maria, is a Norwegian musician and songwriter. Her first album, Fortress Round My Heart, was released in 2008. In November 2010, she released her second album Katla in Norway; the album was released internationally on 7 June 2011. In August 2013, Maria digitally released her third album Love Conquers All in Norway.
Zara Maria Larsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. At the age of 10, she achieved national fame in Sweden for winning the 2008 season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of British TV's Got Talent. Four years later, in 2012, Larsson signed with the record label TEN Music Group and released her debut EP album Introducing in January 2013. The single "Uncover" topped the music charts in Scandinavia: Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. In February 2013, "Uncover" was certified Platinum by Universal Music Sweden. In July 2013, her EP Introducing was certified 3× Platinum in the country. Larsson signed a three-year contract with Epic Records in the United States in April 2013. In 2016, she performed at the opening and closing ceremonies for UEFA Euro in France.
Norway hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, after Alexander Rybak won the 2009 Contest with "Fairytale".
Mushagalusa Bakenga Joar Namugunga , commonly known as Mushaga "Mush" Bakenga, is a Norwegian professional footballer of Congolese descent, who currently plays as a striker for Ranheim, on loan from Tromsø.
Ina Christine Wroldsen, previously known mononymously as Ina, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She was a part of the electropop duo Ask Embla, with Icelandic producer and songwriter Arnþór Birgisson.
Marcus & Martinus, occasionally known as M&M, are a Norwegian pop-duo consisting of twin brothers Marcus and Martinus Gunnarsen. They have released three albums: Hei, Together and Moments. In 2019 they released an EP called SOON. Since winning Melodi Grand Prix Junior in 2012 they won numerous prizes like Spellemannprisen in 2017.
Ali Pirzad-Amoli, better known by his stage name A-Lee is a Norwegian pop recording artist, rapper, singer, songwriter and executive producer. A-Lee is the co-founder and CEO of his own record label EE Records and with BMG Chrysalis as a songwriter.
Terje Nilsen was a Norwegian singer and songwriter. Nilsen's greatest hit is the song "Mjelle", written in 1974, and appearing on the album "Æ" released in 1977. It later appeared on the album "Kanskje", released in 1990, and had a spell on Norsktoppen.
Kråkesølv is a rock band from Bodø, Norway. The name is taken from a tune by the hardcore band Hjertesorg, in which Fredrik William Olsen and Thomas Litangen played.
Kid Astray is an indie pop band from Sandvika, Norway, consisting of Benjamin Giørtz, Elizabeth Wu, Even Steine, Alex Meek, Håkon Carlin and Jakob Bechmann. The band formed in 2010, when they met at the same music high school.
Norway participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Icebreaker" written by Agnete Johnsen, Gabriel Alares and Ian Curnow. The song was performed by Agnete. The Norwegian broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) organised the national final Melodi Grand Prix 2016 in order to select the Norwegian entry for the 2016 contest in Stockholm, Sweden. Ten entries competed in a show that took place on 27 February 2016 and the winner was determined over two rounds of public televoting. The top four entries in the first round of voting advanced to the competition's second round—the Gold Final. In the second round of public televoting, "Icebreaker" performed by Agnete was selected as the winner with 166,728 votes.
Alan Olav Walker is a British-born Norwegian DJ and record producer. He is best known for his 2015 single "Faded" which received diamond certifications in Germany and Poland and multi-platinum certifications in over 10 countries including the US and the UK. He released his debut studio album, Different World, in 2018. He was ranked 36th on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list of 2018.
The 2016 season is Bodø/Glimt's third season back in the Tippeligaen since their relegation at the end of the 2009 season.
Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 track "So Long, Marianne", in which he sang that she "held on to me like I was a crucifix as we went kneeling through the dark".
The Ancient & Arcane is the debut studio album by American electronic music producer Varien. The album was released on August 5, 2015 by independent electronic music label Monstercat.
Caroline Furoyen, also known by her stage name Caroline Ailin, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter based in London. She co-wrote "New Rules," a single by Dua Lipa which reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and US pop radio in 2017. She has also worked with a variety of other acts including, Zedd, Katy Perry, Clean Bandit, Ellie Goulding, Ella Mai, Louis the Child, and numerous others.
