52 Norwegian musicians

Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio.

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

Jan Bang is a Norwegian musician and record producer who has worked with Morten Harket, Sidsel Endresen, David Sylvian, Nils Petter Molvær, Arild Andersen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Arve Henriksen, and Erik Honoré.

Bjørn Berge is a Norwegian guitarist and blues artist.

Per Natrud Bergersen was a musician from Røros, Norway. He was killed by a friend in 1990, when 29 years old, with a shotgun. According to news reports the friend said that he did this at Bergersen's request, as he wanted help committing suicide.

Arne Berggren is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer, songwriter and rock musician. He made his literary debut in 1991. In 1992 he published Stillemannen, which was awarded the Critics Prize for the year's best children's or youth's literature. Among his novels are Instamatic from 1994 and Webers lov from 1998.

Øivind Bergh was a Norwegian violinist and orchestral leader.

Julian Berntzen is a Norwegian vocalist, pianist, violinist and composer known for his Magnetic North Orchestra. He is the son of artist and guitarist Lasse Berntzen, and the grandson of actor Rolf Berntzen.

Eirik Glambek Bøe is a Norwegian musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience together with Erlend Øye. He has studied psychology at the University at Bergen. Although his native language is Norwegian, many of his writings are in English.

Fred-René Øvergård Buljo, better known as simply Fred Buljo, is a Sámi rapper from Norway. He is a member of the Sámi rap group Duolva Duottar, established in 2007. In 2008 the group made a breakthrough when they participated in Norske Talenter and reached the final.

Kenneth Øvrid Holter,, also known as Eth Eonel, is a Norwegian songwriter, producer and singer. He helped form the alternative rock band Aloysius in 2004, and was vocalist for an early line-up of what would later become the progressive metal band Garden Of. He was also one of four thereminists in Trondheim Thereminorkester. From 2008 until 2009 he hosted an experimental radio show called "Fluxusboks", that aired on Radio Revolt. He runs a label called Eonel Sound.

Ole Evenrud is a Norwegian pop artist and teenpop producer. He had his big time in the 1980s under the name Ole i'dole. After the 1980s he has operated as a musical producer.

Haakon Forwald is a leading member of the organization Nordic Strength, founded in 2019. He was from 2010 to 2019 the leader of the Norwegian branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a Neo-Nazi movement in Scandinavia. He has been described by the newspaper Verdens Gang as one of the most dangerous people in Northern Europe. Forwald was previously a guitarist in Myrkskog and Disiplin. He was also a bassist in the Swedish extreme metal band Dissection, a band that was affiliated with an occult order, Temple of the Black Light.

Ingor Ánte Áilu Gaup, also known as Iŋgor Ántte Áilu Gaup and as Áilloš is a Sámi actor, composer, and folk musician.

Knut Markus Hansen Glomsaas (1863–1935) was a Norwegian military musician based in Trondheim. Although he decided to go to America as a 17-year-old man, his father saw his talents and made him join the military as a cornetist in the artillery instead. He studied in Berlin for two years. He was known for his competence, and led and instructed multiple choirs. He wrote music for ballet, marches and military music, dance music, and he wrote a polka for Trondheim's 900-years jubilee.

Thomas Hansen was a Norwegian alternative country musician performing under the name Saint Thomas.

Anders Hunstad is a Norwegian musician and songwriter from Oslo.

Andreu Jacob Martinez Foglietti known as Andreu Jacob is a Catalan composer. Andreu Jacob works in such musical genres as classical and contemporary music, jazz, flamenco and other musical styles. He has a wide experience in media, television, studio recordings and movies. Besides he is a gifted multi-instrumentalist musician, producer and arranger.

Odd-Arne Jacobsen was born on 29 December 1947. He stands today as a unique personal "voice" in European improvisation music, with his own distinctive tone language. Odd-Arne has worked with most of the leading artists in Norway in theatre and music, and has also presented his art internationally. He has had his own television programme in Russia, as well as a solo concert at the Moscow International Jazz Festival and has toured the USA, Mexico, Russia, France, China, Kuwait, Scotland, and Japan. In 1990 he undertook a solo concert of his own compositions in Carnegie Hall, New York.

Sondre Justad is a Norwegian musician and songwriter.

Kenneth Nilsen known professionally as K-391 is a Norwegian music producer. He is best known for his 2018 single "Ignite", a collaboration with Alan Walker, Julie Bergan and Seungri which reached number one in Norway.

Henning Kvitnes is a singer/songwriter from Tistedal, Halden in Norway. His debut came with The Ice Cream Band, but he later found bigger success as a solo artist.

Andre Lindal is a Norwegian songwriter, record producer and musician from Oslo, now based in Los Angeles. He has produced for many popular artists and groups, including Maroon 5, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, Nelly Furtado and Chris Medina. After receiving a Grammy nomination for his work with Monica in 2011, he received a Grammy win when Kelly Clarkson's Stronger took home the Best Pop Vocal Album in 2013.

Håvard Lothe is a Norwegian musician who released his first album, Live in Concert in 2007, which reached number 32 on the Norwegian Albums Chart.

Me At Sea is a solo electronica project of Isak Strand.

Terje Wik Mikkelsen is an acknowledged Norwegian conductor with his main career in Europe and Asia.

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.

Steinar Ofsdal is a Norwegian composer and flutist.

Nils Økland is a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player known as a bridge builder between contemporary music and folk music, and the brother of the musician Torbjørn Økland.

Torbjørn Eirik Økland. Is a Norwegian musician. Together with Øyvind Staveland he was the founder of the Norwegian band Vamp.

Morten Aasdahl Eliassen, also known as stage name Opaque or the alias Mae, is a Norwegian rapper from Furuset in Oslo.

Adolf Østbye was a revue artist and barber who became the first Norwegian recording artist. The earliest playable Norwegian phonograph cylinder dates from 1889.

Erlend 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.

Jean Mikhael Paskalev Skaaden, better known as Mikhael Paskalev is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Ålesund. He is of partial Bulgarian origin.

Ingunn Ringvold is a roots singer, musician and songwriter from Norway. She plays piano, harmonium, guitar, dulcimer, djembe and qanon.

Kjetil Rolness is a Norwegian sociologist with main interest in taste sociology and pop cultural expressions. He is also a writer, lecturer and entertainer. He is active as a social commentator in social media and a columnist for Aftenposten, and has published several books.

Lars Roverud was a Norwegian musician and music teacher, among others at Asker Seminary and the Practical-Theological Seminary. He played a prominent role in popularising the psalmodikon, a one-string bowed instrument, for musical education and church music in Norway.

Isak Rypdal is a Norwegian music producer and founder of Crab Key Records. He has released numerous albums and singles and has contributed on several Norwegian movie scores.

Harald Sæther is a Norwegian composer with a diploma (MA) from Grieg Academy (2008). He is member of the Norwegian Society of Composers and New Music Composers Group (NMK) where he was chairman from 2009 to 2011.

Aage Samuelsen was a Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer. He was the son of factory worker and railway man Karl Hjalmar Samuelsen, and Anna Samuelsen. Aage was married to Elisabeth Olsen ("Lisa"), and together they had seven children.

Johan Sara Jr. is a Sami musician and a central Sami composer, producer, teacher, arranger, actor and performer of contemporary music with roots in the Sami tradition.

Øystein Sevåg is a Norwegian classical musician.

Kåre Jostein Simonsen is a Norwegian bandoneonist. He has been a regular member of the Tango Concertino and Trio Troika in Trondheim, and now plays in ensembles Quinteto Nidaros and Cholo tango duet/trio.

Jon Rune Strøm is a Norwegian Jazz musician.

Tommy Flaaten, best known by his stage name Tommy Tee, is a Norwegian record producer, rapper, broadcaster, record executive, concert promoter and magazine publisher. He is known as the godfather of Norwegian hip hop. Tee owns the label Tee Productions, which is located in Oslo, Norway and is Norway's leading hip hop label. As well, he publishes Norway's only graffiti magazine and hosts a weekly national rap radio program.

Carl Frode Tiller is a Norwegian author, historian and musician. His works are in Nynorsk, one of the two official Norwegian standard languages.

Oddvar Torsheim is a Norwegian painter, illustrator and musician.

Kristian Valen is a comedian, actor, singer and songwriter originally from Stavanger, Norway. Known for comedic impressions, Valen has also pursued a serious music career; his pop music album Listen When Alone was released internationally in Europe and Asia. Valen was asked by Katherine Jackson to perform his song "Still Here" at the Jackson Family Foundation's Forever Michael: A Celebration of an Icon, the one year Michael Jackson memorial show held in 2010 at Beverly Hilton Hotel the home of the Golden Globes in Los Angeles.

Maya Vik is a "Norwegian Grammy" (Spellemannprisen) winning singer, songwriter, and bass player from Norway. Her career has spanned over 15 years with music that is often described by the press as reminiscent of the Minneapolis Sound. Most recently, Maya gained notoriety with her Lindstrøm produced homage to Michael Douglas with a song titled "Y.M.D. " in which Vice Noisey called a "weird obsession".

Espen Wensaas is a Norwegian musician and multi-instrumentalist residing in Oslo, Norway. He is widely used in the Norwegian music scene for his abilities to play different musical genres in addition to being able to improvise. This has led him to work with television, theater and miscellaneous collaborations with musicians from folk, pop, classical, jazz, and other genres.

Per Carl Winge was a Norwegian conductor, pianist and composer, known primarily for his vocal music.

Winta Efrem is a Norwegian R&B and soul musician from Oslo. She grew up in Oslo, Norway. Winta has been interested in music since she was a child.