Anita Hegerland

born on 3/3/1961

Anita Hegerland

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Anita Hegerland (born 3 March 1961 in ), is a Norwegian singer known for her childhood career in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and subsequent vocal contributions to Mike Oldfield's work, among others.

She is one of the best-selling solo singers in Norway, with sales of more than 7 million albums and singles. Her songs have been released on nearly 23 million albums worldwide.

Hegerland had the biggest hit in Germany of any Norwegian artist ever, in front of Lene Nystrøm (AQUA), Marit Larsen, Madcon, and A-ha.

For more than 20 years she had the record in Sweden as the singer who was the longest on Svensktoppen, the main music charts.

Biography

Hegerland was discovered at age 8 by Fredrik Friis during a Christmas show where she was performing.[1] Hegerland's musical career took off in 1970 with "Mitt sommarlov" (transl: My Summer Vacation) in the Scandinavian countries. It spent 22 weeks on Norway's singles chart, with two weeks at #1, and the song was also a #1 hit in Sweden. In 1971 she released a single with German artist Roy Black; "Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein (It's beautiful to be in the world)" in German-speaking countries. The song was recorded both with German and Norwegian vocals. It sold over 2 million copies (of which more than 1.3 million came from Germany),[1] and spent 30 weeks on the singles chart (top peak #3) in Norway.

In total she had four different albums on the Norwegian chart as a child star. The last one was released in 1973 (when she was 12 years old). She participated in the Norwegian final (for entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1971), but did not win. She continued as a pop singer in Germany and Scandinavia for several years and then pursued an adult vocal career.

She met British musician Mike Oldfield while performing on his non-album single "Pictures in the Dark" in 1985. She sings on two of his biggest hit songs: "Pictures In The Dark" and "Innocent" on his 1980s albums Islands and Earth Moving. She also performed the songs "The Time Has Come", "North Point" and "When The Night's On Fire" on Oldfield's 1987 album "Islands". She has two children with Oldfield, Greta and Noah,[2] and until recently lived on Nesøya island near Oslo with her partner, Jock Loveband. In 1999, their daughter Kaja was born.

Hegerland released a new album called Starfish in 2011, a pop/rock album produced by Ronni Le Tekrø (TNT). This album was no 1 for 39 weeks between November 2011 and November 2012, on Meteli.net, a Finnish downloading site.

References

  1. ^ a b "Anita Hegerland". FrikkMusikk.no. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2008. 
  2. ^ "Mike Oldfield biography, page 4". The Official Mike Oldfield Information Service. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008. 

External links

  • Anita Hegerland on IMDb
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