Erlend Otre Øye is a Norwegian composer, musician, producer, singer and songwriter from Bergen, best known for being one half of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience, along with Eirik Glambek Bøe. Among other musical projects he is front-man for the band The Whitest Boy Alive, and has contributed to tracks by electronic music artists such as Dntel and Norwegian duo Röyksopp. He is also the co-founder of the independent label Bubbles Records. Since 2012 he has lived in Sicily and played extensively with trio La Comitiva.
The Bergen Wave is an expression often used by Norwegian media regarding the city of Bergen, Norway, as a platform for the development of modern music, illustrating a period in time where a new generation of artists from Bergen "took over" the musical landscape in Norway.
Thomas Seltzer, also known by his stage name Happy-Tom, is a musician and television presenter. He is best known as the bassist and chief songwriter of the rock band Turbonegro.
Heroes & Zeros is a rock band from Lillesand, Norway. The group was formed by Hans Jørgen Undelstvedt, Lars Løberg Tofte, and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen in 2003. Tofte quit the band in 2010 and was replaced by Simen Krogstie Lagesen. They have released three studio albums, two EPs, and three live records.
Hilde Sandvik is a Norwegian journalist based in Bergen. Sandvik has a cand.philol. degree from the University of Bergen, majoring in art history. She edited the periodical Syn og Segn from 2003 to 2006, was briefly debate editor in the newspaper Dagbladet in 2005, and later journalist and debate editor in the newspaper Bergens Tidende from 2006 to 2016. She also has released several books.
Bjarte Håkon Myrhol is a Norwegian handball coach and former player who is currently the coach of Runar Sandefjord. Regarded as one of the best line players of his era, Myrhol won twelve titles playing for clubs in Norway, Hungary, Germany and Denmark in a career that spanned over twenty years.
Lars Nesheim Vaular is a Norwegian rapper, singer and songwriter from Åsane, Bergen. He started rapping in 2003. He initially released songs under the duo Tier'n og Lars before going solo.
Honningbarna is a punk rock band from Kristiansand, Norway, known for performing lyrics in the local Kristiansand dialect.
Magnus Gangstad Jørgensen, better known as Philter is a Norwegian electronic music artist. He was born and partially raised in Molde and moved to Bergen at the age of ten.
Roy Lønhøiden is a Norwegian composer and singer-songwriter in the country music genre. His music is considered a blend of traditional Norwegian folk and American roots music.
Birgitte Grimstad is a Danish-born Norwegian singer, guitarist, composer and writer.
Yngve Leidulv Sætre is a Norwegian record producer, musician. He worked as a record producer in Sigma Studio, before, together with Jørgen Træen, he started Duper Studio in Møhlenpris, Bergen in 1996.
Thea Hjelmeland is a Norwegian musician, singer and songwriter, raised by an artist mother and a musician father.
Kråkesølv is a rock band from Bodø Municipality in Norway. The name is taken from a tune by the hardcore band Hjertesorg, in which Fredrik William Olsen and Thomas Litangen played.
Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known professionally as Sigrid, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She has released two studio albums, Sucker Punch (2019) and How to Let Go (2022), both of which reached the top of the charts in Norway as well as reaching the top 10 in the United Kingdom. She has also released three EPs.
Kristian Kristensen is a Norwegian singer/songwriter from Harstad, Norway. He started his solo career in 2013 through the Norwegian TV-show The Voice, and signed with Warner Music Norway in 2015.
Marthe Haaland Wang is a Norwegian singer-songwriter born and raised in Bergen. She sings about hope, wonder and relationships and about the past, future and present in the Bergen dialect. Her music can be described as timeless, melodious, playful and serious. The genuine and organic soundscape covers both pop, folk and jazz.
Boy Pablo is the indie pop music project of Norwegian singer songwriter Nicolas Muñoz. In the recording studio, Muñoz writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project's music. As a touring act, Boy Pablo currently consists of Nicolás Muñoz, Gabriel Muñoz, Judah Kubendran and Esteban Muñoz (drums).
Sverre Knudsen is a Norwegian writer and musician. He has written for stage, television and digital media, and worked as a music producer.
The 2022 Oslo shooting, commonly known in Norway as the Pride Shooting in Oslo occurred on 25 June 2022, when two people were killed and twenty-one people were wounded in a mass shooting in Oslo, Norway. Police declared the incident as an "act of Islamist terrorism". The target may have been the Oslo LGBTQ pride event, which was hosted by the local branch of the Norwegian Organisation for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
