1. Lene Marlin (1980)

Norwegian Musician

Popular Norwegian singer best known for albums like Playing My Game, Lost in a Moment, and Twist the Truth.

2. Arve Henriksen (1968)

Norwegian Musician

Known for his trumpet-playing sound reminiscent of the shakuhachi flute.

3. Necrobutcher (1968)

Norwegian Musician

Norwegian musician who is known for his work as a bassist in the black metal band Mayhem. He is known for being an original member of the group and for having...

4. Finn Mortensen (1922)

Norwegian Musician

Norwegian music composer who served as the first director of the Norwegian Concert Institute and was considered a neoclassicist and expressionistic.

5. Roy Khan (1970)

Norwegian Musician

Norwegian vocalist who sang for the progressive metal band Conception from 1991 to 1997. He then fronted the symphonic power metal band Kamelot from 1997 to 2011, leaving the band...

6. Boom Jinx (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Progressive house and trance DJ based out of Norway. In 2010, he was voted #296 on the Top Worldwide DJs list by DJ Magazine.

7. Aleksander Vinter (1987)

Norwegian Musician

Prolific Norwegian DJ known under various aliases, including Savant and Vinter in Hollywood. His 2009 debut album, Outbreak, was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy.

8. Jahn Teigen (1949)

Norwegian Musician

Perhaps most well known for representing his native Norway in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1978, '82, and '83, he is also known for his albums Mentalkrem (1980) and En...

9. Tine Thing Helseth (1987)

Norwegian Musician

Trumpet soloist who has risen to fame for specializing in classical music. She released her fourth studio album Never Going Back in 2017, and appeared twice in 2013 at the...

10. Arve Isdal (1977)

Norwegian Musician

Guitarist who has played with the black metal band, Enslaved and has also worked as a session musician for myriad other bands.

11. Diesel Dahl (1959)

Norwegian Musician

Drummer for the hard rock Norwegian band TNT and co-wrote their hit "10,000 Lovers (In One)."

12. Geir Botnen (1959)

Norwegian Musician

Gained renown for his mastery of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's repertoire, as well as the repertoire of other composers.

13. Morten Harket (1959)

Norwegian Musician

New wave artist famous for his time as the frontman of synth-pop band A-ha. The group is best known for its 1985 hit "Take on Me." He also performed with the...

14. Omer Bhatti (1985)

Norwegian Musician

Norwegian rapper and dancer who is known by the stage name O-Bee and signed on to be one of four judges for the Norwegian talent show Norske Talenter in 2013.

15. Magne Furuholmen (1962)

Norwegian Musician

Guitarist and keyboardist for the pop band A-ha, the group that released the #1 single "Take on Me."

16. Janove Ottesen (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Norwegian singer and guitarist best known as a member of the band Kaizers Orchestra. He is also a producer who has produced records for fellow Norwegian artists like Britt-Synnove Johansen.

17. Carl-Michael Eide (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Norwegian black metal drummer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist most famous for his work with bands like Satyricon and Ulver. He is known for his non-traditional approach to playing blast beats.

18. Christian Skår Winther (1989)

Norwegian Musician

Christian Skår Winther is a Norwegian Jazz musician known from bands like Monkey Plot and Ich Bin N!ntendo.

19. Tchort (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Terje Vik Schei better known by his stage name Tchort is a Norwegian musician. He is known for his time spent playing bass for the black metal band Emperor and...

20. Gisle Saga (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Gisle Saga is a Norwegian music producer and songwriter.

21. Harald Sæther (1946)

Norwegian Musician

Harald Sæther is a Norwegian composer with a diploma from Grieg Academy . He is member of the Norwegian Society of Composers and New Music Composers Group where he was...

22. Samoth (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Samoth is a musician and multi-instrumentalist in the Norwegian black metal scene. He was well known for his distinct guitar work and drumming in the band Emperor as well...

23. Faust (musician) (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Bård Guldvik “Faust” Eithun is a Norwegian drummer. He is best known for his work with early black metal band Emperor especially on the releases As the Shadows Rise and...

24. Ole Moe (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Apollyon is a black metal/thrash metal multi-instrumentalist formerly associated with Dødheimsgard and Cadaver now playing in Aura Noir and also Immortal after its reforming in 2006. He has done guest...

25. ICS Vortex (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Simen Hestnæs also known as I. C. S. Vortex or just simply Vortex is a Norwegian musician best known as the current vocalist of the similar named band ICS Vortex...

26. Ellen Brekken (1985)

Norwegian Musician

Ellen Brekken is a Norwegian jazz musician who plays upright bass and the bass guitar. She currently lives in Oslo.

27. Lasse Marhaug (1974)

Norwegian Musician

Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation jazz rock and extreme metal. Marhaug...

28. Åshild Breie Nyhus (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Åshild Breie Nyhus is a Norwegian musician who plays folk music and classical music. She graduated from the Barratt Due Institute of Music and Norwegian Academy of Music. She is...

29. Torbjørn Brundtland (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Torbjørn Brundtland makes up half of the duo Röyksopp. He was born in Tromsø Norway.

30. Rune Eriksen (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Rune Eriksen is a Norwegian Spellemann-award winning musician and composer. He is best known as the former guitarist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Blasphemer which...

31. Aslak Hartberg (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Aslak Rakli Hartberg alias Alis is a Norwegian rapper and bass player and was the leading figure in the Norwegian hip hop band Klovner i Kamp. He is the brother...

32. Sigurd Wongraven (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Satyr is the vocalist lead and rhythm guitarist bassist and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released...

33. Ole Marius Sandberg (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Ole Marius Sandberg is a Norwegian jazz musician known from a series of recordings and collaborations with such as Jan Gunnar Hoff Erlend Skomsvoll Odd Børretzen Jan Eggum Herborg Kråkevik...

34. Ihsahn (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer played in...

35. Gisle Torvik (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Gisle Torvik is a Norwegian jazz musician from Tørvikbygd in Hardanger.

36. Bjarte Ludvigsen (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Bjarte Ludvigsen a. k. a. Blue is a record producer from Bergen Norway. He started out as a drummer for the Norwegian-Grammy Award winning band Poor Rich Ones. In 1997...

37. Geir Zahl (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Geir Zahl is a Norwegian musician. He is known for playing guitar in the Norwegian rock group Kaizers Orchestra. The band was founded by Geir Zahl and Janove Ottesen who...

38. Lars Andreas Haug (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Lars Andreas Haug is a Norwegian Jazz musician known from a variety of jazz groups and recordings.

39. Steinar Raknes (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Steinar Raknes is a Norwegian Jazz musician and composer and the younger brother of Jazz singer and pianist Eldbjørg Raknes. He is considered to be one of the most talented...

40. Frode Haltli (1975)

Norwegian Musician

Haltli is a Norwegian accordion player.

41. Amalie Christie (1913)

Norwegian Musician

Amalie Christie was a Norwegian classical pianist author and anthroposophist.

42. Malin Reitan (1995)

Norwegian Musician

Malin is a Norwegian singer. She finished 3rd in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with her song Sommer og skolefri. She is also a recording artist with several released...

43. Gabriel Fliflet (1958)

Norwegian Musician

Gabriel Fliflet is a Norwegian musician known for his multicultural musical expressions and many recordings. He is brother of bass and sagspiller Andreas Fliflet and son of Albert Lange Fliflet...

44. Olav Dale (1958)

Norwegian Musician

Olav Dale is a Norwegian composer orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist. In addition to saxophones he plays other woodwinds. He got little formal education in music but completed studies at...

45. Torgrim Eggen (1958)

Norwegian Musician

Torgrim Eggen is a Norwegian musician journalist magazine editor novelist and non-fiction writer. Among his books are Gjeld from 1992 and the novel Pynt from 2000. Duften av Havana from...

46. Steinar Eikum (1958)

Norwegian Musician

Steinar Schanke Eikum was the original bassist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT. He joined the band after doing an audition in the Easter of 1982 and played on...

47. Henning Kvitnes (1958)

Norwegian Musician

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.

48. Bente Kahan (1958)

Norwegian Musician

Bente Kahan is a Norwegian solo vocalist best known for her renditions and productions of Yiddish folk music and plays.

49. Heida Mobeck (1987)

Norwegian Musician

Heiða Karine Jóhannesdóttir Mobeck is a Norwegian Jazz musician daughter of the artists Kari Elise Mobeck and Jóhannes B. Sigurjónsson married June 23 2011 to the drummer and vibraphonist Hans...

50. Harald Lassen (1987)

Norwegian Musician

Harald Lassen is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer known from collaborations with musicians like Jon Christensen Mats Eilertsen Eyolf Dale Arild Andersen Morten Qvenild Mathias Eick Espen Rud Per...