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Hera

Icelandic singer/songwriter Hera has been living in New Zealand for about 10 years whilst cultivating and carving out a very successful career in her native land on the opposite side of the world. Not an easy task but one that was deservedly rewarded in 2002 when HERA was named Best Female Singer at that year’s Icelandic Music Awards, a major achievement for the young artist given that for the previous 10 years that category had been almost completely dominated by Bjork.

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Karin Fransson

Karin Fransson is a singer-songwriter and guitar / keyboard / viola player, from London, Jönköping, Sweden. Her début album is "Private Behaviour" (5 Jul 2011, Too Hip Records). She arrived in London in 2005, following a dream to make music and live there. Whilst attending a contemporary performance and production education she learned about some truly amazing musicians and people, the reality of unrealistic expectations, how to enjoy London without money, abilities and inabilities alongside of acquiring some desirable technical skills.

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Rebekka Karijord

Rebekka Karijord was born in 1976, in Northern Norway (Lofoten). She lived with her mother her whole growth. She moved to new places 17 times before she had her 18.th birthday. Both her parents are artists. Rebekka went to several musical/performance educations such as the Norwegian Musical Theatre, Academy of ballet and she also went to the Royal Academy of Acting in Stockholm. She has a Swedish family and after four years living in Stockholm she feels she has two homes, one in Sweden & one in Norway.

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Hild Sofie Tafjord

Hild Sofie Tafjord has been known to the public for over a decade as part of projects like SPUNK, Fe-Mail (her duo with Maja Ratkje), Agrare (Fe-Mail with dancer Lotta Melin), Trinacria (Fe-Mail with black metallers Enslaved) and collaborations with Birchville Cat Motel, Wolf Eyes, Matmos, Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide, Carlos Giffoni, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith and countless others. She has released albums on labels like Asphodel, Rune Grammofon, ECM and Gameboy Records.

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Malene Mortensen

Malene Winter Mortensen (born May 23, 1982) is a Danish jazz singer-songwriter. Malene is the daughter of two musicians, drummer and music teacher Karen Mortensen and trumpet player and composer Jens Winther. Malene grew up as an only child with her mother in Copenhagen, Denmark, at first in Christiania, later at Christianshavn. Yet in 1991 they moved to Elsinore, Karen Mortensen being headhunted to the post as chief music teacher at IPC, International People's College.

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Pascal Pinon

Pascal Pinon are the twins Jófríður and Ásthildur, two girls from Reykjavík, Iceland. When they were only fourteen they got together with two of their friends and decided to start a band. Using the instruments they had, Pascal Pinon worked in the twins' bedroom. At the same place they played their first gig: calling it 'The Friendly Concert'. 
Only a few months later Pascal Pinon had already played various local venues and started to record their first album.

Pascal Pinon on Last.fm.

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Myrra Rós

Icelandic singer/songwriter Myrra Rós is one of the leading singer/songwriters in the icelandic acoustic music Scene.
First picking up the guitar at age 20, Myrra Rós played her first concert for an audience of a pair of red parrots. Her crowds have been growing steadily ever since, eventually crossing species to the human race, filling up local cafe's in Iceland. Her influences are artists like: Fionn Regan, Ane Brun, Bon Iver, At the bus stop along with many many more.

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Tine Thing Helseth

Tine Thing Helseth (phonetic pron.Tin-eh Ting Hel-set) (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtiːnɛ tɪŋ hɛlsɛt]; born August 18, 1987 in Oslo) is a Norwegian trumpet soloist specializing in classical repertoire. Helseth started to play trumpet at the age of 7 and studies at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Her teachers have included Heidi Johanessen (Norwegian National Opera Orchestra) and since 2002 Arnulf Naur Nilsen (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra).[1]

Read more about Tine Thing Helseth on Last.fm.

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Sofia

There is more than one artist with the name of Sofia : 1) Sofia Berntson (born 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden), known professionally as Sofia is a Swedish singer who often sings in Greek. She has released three CD singles since 2007 and has taken part in the Swedish song selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen, twice, in 2007 and more recently in 2009. In 2007, Sofia participated in Melodifestivalen with the song "Hypnotized".

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