Stephen AcklesW
Stephen Ackles

Stephen Ackles, son of Norwegian mother and American father is a beloved Norwegian vocalist, pianist, and songwriter who mainly play rock 'n' roll inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley with several. Ackles has worked with a number of world-renowned artists such as Sir Elton John, Carl Perkins, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Little Richard, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Gail Lewis, James Burton and Narvel Felts Ackles took part in the Norwegian final of "Melodi Grand Prix" in 1992, 1996 and 1999.

Elisabeth AndreassenW
Elisabeth Andreassen

Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen, also known as just Bettan, is a Norwegian-Swedish singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Frida ÅnnevikW
Frida Ånnevik

Frida Ånnevik is a Norwegian jazz singer and the daughter of folk singer Tor Karseth.

Erlend ApnesethW
Erlend Apneseth

Erlend Apneseth is a hardingfele player from Jølster in Sogn og Fjordane.

Tora AugestadW
Tora Augestad

Tora Karen Elisabeth Augestad is a Norwegian musician (vocals), musical conductor and actor, and the daughter of Program 81/82 vocalist Kate Augestad. She focuses on jazz, musical theater, contemporary music, and cabaret. Her stage debut was the lead role in "Annie" in 1994, and won the Norwegian talent competition in 1993 at TV 2.

Kirsten Bråten BergW
Kirsten Bråten Berg

Kirsten Marie Bråten Berg is a Norwegian traditional folk singer, silversmith and government scholar. She is currently living in Valle in the Setesdal area of southern Norway. She trained as a silversmith at the Torleiv H. Bjørgums Vocational College in Setesdal and then set up her own workshop there, in Nomeland.

Bjørn BergeW
Bjørn Berge

Bjørn Berge is a Norwegian guitarist and blues artist.

Bergen Big BandW
Bergen Big Band

Bergen Big Band (BBB) is a Norwegian big band established 1991 as a continuation of Knut Kristiansen's Bergen Band. BBB is known from cooperations with musicians like Phil Woods, Paquito D'Rivera, Joe Henderson, Maria Schneider, Diana Krall, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Andy Sheppard, Martial Solal, Mathias Rüegg, Gianluigi Trovesi, Mathias Eick, Ole Kock Hansen, Etta Cameron, Karin Krog, John Surman, Dino Saluzzi, Gustavo Bergalli, Berit Opheim, Jan Magne Førde, The Core, Ab und Zu, Vidar Johansen, Paolo Vinaccia, Ståle Storløkken, Palle Mikkelborg and Terje Rypdal among others.

Ketil BjørnstadW
Ketil Bjørnstad

Ketil Bjørnstad is a pianist, composer and author. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz".

Black DebbathW
Black Debbath

Black Debbath is a Norwegian hard rock/metal band created by four of the core members of Duplex Records. They often make a political statement, calling their genre "Heavy Politically Incorrect Humor Rock".

Hanne BoelW
Hanne Boel

Hanne Boel is a Danish singer.

Øyvind BrækkeW
Øyvind Brække

Øyvind Brække is a Norwegian jazz musician (trombone), composer, music arranger and band leader, best known for Bodega Band and S. Møller Storband. He was the initiator of the popular and still active band The Source, who released several albums, and made contributions to dozens of recordings with musicians like Chick Corea, Eirik Hegdal, Per Zanussi, Erlend Skomsvoll, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Knut Kristiansen, Jacob Young, Trygve Seim, Per Oddvar Johansen, Dingobats, Sverre Gjørvad, Motorpsycho, and Come Shine.

Vidar BuskW
Vidar Busk

Vidar Busk is a Norwegian guitarist, vocalist, composer and record producer within genres blues and soul.

Captain SabertoothW
Captain Sabertooth

Captain Sabertooth is a long running series that centers around the eponymous pirate Captain Sabertooth, who was created and was originally portrayed by the Norwegian singer, composer, author and actor Terje Formoe. The series comprises several stage plays, theatrical films, a television series, cartoons, and books, all of which are aimed at small children.

Lars Saabye ChristensenW
Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen, is a Norwegian/Danish author.

Jan EggumW
Jan Eggum

Jan Eggum is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. He has been characterized as a "face for the melancholy", and the themes in his songs are often broken hearts, loneliness, and sorrow. Sometimes his lyrics include social criticism, but he also shows trivial and funny sides of himself.

Trude EickW
Trude Eick

Trude Eick is a Norwegian musician and composer, known from different forms of music, in which she plays regular repertoire as well as free improvisation. She is the sister of musicians Mathias Eick and Johannes Eick.

Jonas FjeldW
Jonas Fjeld

Jonas Fjeld is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known in the English-speaking world for two albums recorded by Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, a collaboration with Canadian Rick Danko of The Band and American singer-songwriter Eric Andersen. Fjeld also recorded three albums with the American bluegrass group Chatham County Line.

Lars Ove FossheimW
Lars Ove Fossheim

Lars Ove Stene Fossheim is a Norwegian jazz guitarist from Volda, known from bands like Broen, Skadedyr, Snøskred, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Your Headlights Are On.

Sigmund GrovenW
Sigmund Groven

Sigmund Groven is a Norwegian classical harmonica player, today considered one of the world's leading classical harmonica players. He plays with a large number of the world's leading musicians and orchestras, and he has made 23 recordings yet in his own name. His repertoire ranges from popular and folk music to his own compositions, from Bach to contemporary music.

Jan Gunnar HoffW
Jan Gunnar Hoff

Jan Gunnar Hoff is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, arranger and professor, living in Bodø, known from cooperations with jazz musicians like Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Lars Danielsson, John Surman, Karin Krog, Maria Joao, Marilyn Mazur, Anders Jormin, Arve Henriksen, Per Jørgensen, Alex Acuña, Mike Stern, Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk, Per Mathisen, Arild Andersen, Nils Petter Molvær, Ståle Storløkken, Audun Kleive and Mathias Eick.

Bendik HofsethW
Bendik Hofseth

Bendik Hofseth is a Norwegian jazz musician, who plays the saxophone and sings. He is also a bandleader, and arranges and composes music.

Iver KleiveW
Iver Kleive

Iver Kleive is a Norwegian composer and organist. He is known for his composing style which is a fusion of traditional church music with other musical idioms such as blues, jazz, and Norwegian folk music. He has appeared in nearly 200 recordings as a studio musician, composer and arranger.

Håkon KornstadW
Håkon Kornstad

Håkon Ganes Kornstad is a Norwegian jazz musician and classically trained singer (tenor), known from bands such as Wibutee and Kornstad Trio, and collaborations with musicians such as Ketil Bjørnstad, Anja Garbarek, Live Maria Roggen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Eilertsen, Knut Reiersrud, Jon Christensen, Eivind Aarset, and Pat Metheny.

Helge LienW
Helge Lien

Helge Lien is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and band leader. He has in recent years also developed a passion for photography and digital processing of images and has passion for powerful melancholy, dynamics and detail.

Øyonn Groven MyhrenW
Øyonn Groven Myhren

Øyonn Groven Myhren is a Norwegian traditional folk musician and kveder.

Lillebjørn NilsenW
Lillebjørn Nilsen

Bjørn "Lillebjørn" Falk Nilsen is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and folk musician. He was born in Oslo, and is considered by some to be the leading "voice of Oslo", thanks to numerous classic songs about the city from the 1970s and onwards.

Siri NilsenW
Siri Nilsen

Siri Anne Nilsen is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and voice actress. "As the daughter of two folksingers, Lillebjørn and Shari Nilsen, she grew up surrounded by music." Nilsen is noted for the sincerity of her song writing and the clarity and range of her voice, characterized as "unique" and "beautiful". During her first two albums she often accompanied her singing with a ukulele, which she plays in a fingerpicking style.

Odd NordstogaW
Odd Nordstoga

Odd Nordstoga is a folk singer, musician, actor and editor from Vinje in Telemark, Norway. In 2004, he went from relative obscurity to becoming the country's biggest selling recording artist, with the phenomenal success of his first solo album proper, "Luring". The album, a fusion of pop and Norwegian folk music, has sold more than 160,000 copies in Norway to date and earned him several Spellemannsprisen awards. For the album Strålande Jul, released together with Sissel Kyrkjebø, he won an unprecedented 11 Norwegian platinum trophies.

Eldbjørg RaknesW
Eldbjørg Raknes

Eldbjørg Raknes is a Norwegian jazz vocalist known for her a cappella vocal performances, innovative improvised vocals and electronic effects. She has collaborated with musicians such as Jon Balke, Anders Jormin, Bendik Hofseth, Christian Wallumrød, Arve Henriksen, Ketil Bjørnstad, and Ståle Storløkken. She is the sister of the bassist Steinar Raknes.

Terje RypdalW
Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. He has been an important member in the Norwegian jazz community, and has also given show concerts with guitarists Ronni Le Tekrø and Mads Eriksen as "N3".

Halvdan SivertsenW
Halvdan Sivertsen

Halvdan Sivertsen is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Tromsø, but raised and lives in Bodø. He has won Spellemannprisen awards five times, twice with his group Gitarkameratene, and received the Culture Prize of Nordland county in 2000. His album Kjærlighetslandet reached number eight on the Norway albums chart.

Erlend SkomsvollW
Erlend Skomsvoll

Erlend Fredrik Skomsvoll is a Norwegian jazz musician, band leader, composer and arranger, known from his own band Skomsork and the band Wibutee with Live Maria Roggen, Madrugada, and Kaizers Orchestra. He has also cooperated with Nils Petter Molvær, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny.

Erlend SlettevollW
Erlend Slettevoll

Erlend Slettevoll is a Norwegian jazz pianist, known from cooperation with musicians like Ola Kvernberg, Petter Wettre, Heidi Skjerve, Kjetil Møster, Steinar Raknes and Espen Aalberg.

Henning SommerroW
Henning Sommerro

Henning Sommerro is a Norwegian musician, composer and professor at NTNU.

Stage DollsW
Stage Dolls

Stage Dolls is a Norwegian hard rock band based in Trondheim, Norway.

Vigleik StoraasW
Vigleik Storaas

Vigleik Storaas is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, and the younger brother of composer and bassist Gaute Storaas. He is known from a series of album releases and collaborations with jazz musicians such as Norma Winstone, Karin Krog, Terje Rypdal, Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen, Chet Baker, Jack DeJohnette and Warne Marsh.

Arve TellefsenW
Arve Tellefsen

Arve Tellefsen is a Norwegian violinist who has worked with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Arvid Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Gary Bertini, Evgeny Svetlanov, Bryden Thomson, Neeme Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paavo Berglund, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Walter Weller and Zubin Mehta. In the UK, he has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, The Hallé, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Welsh Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Mathilde Grooss ViddalW
Mathilde Grooss Viddal

Mathilde Grooss Viddal is a Norwegian musician and composer, known as the leader of Friensemblet and as member of bands like Lucky Loop and Eick/Viddal Duo.

Jacob Young (musician)W
Jacob Young (musician)

Jacob Albert Young is a Norwegian jazz guitarist, arranger, composer, and band leader. He has recorded with Karin Krog, Arild Andersen, Larry Goldings, Nils Petter Molvær, Bendik Hofseth, Terje Gewelt, Per Oddvar Johansen, Arve Henriksen, Jarle Vespestad, Trygve Seim, Mats Eilertsen, Vigleik Storaas, Christian Wallumrød, Bendik Hofseth, Håkon Kornstad, Knut Reiersrud, and Audun Erlien.