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Marit Larsen
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Marit Elisabeth Larsen is a Norwegian singer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. Born in Lørenskog in 1983, she began her work period in 1996. She is a member of the group M2M and has been associated with Atlantic Records. Her musical output spans genres including pop music, acoustic music, folk-pop, chamber pop, contemporary folk, and country pop.
Larsen performs using the guitar and her voice, and she speaks Norwegian and English. She was educated at the University of Oslo. In her personal life, she is married to Alexander Buchmann. Her body of work includes eight recorded pieces.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Norway
- Active from
- 1983
Discography
Member of
- M2M1998–2002
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 186,875
- Total plays
- 3,294,662
Tags
Marit Elisabeth Larsen was born on July 1, 1983 in Lørenskog, Norway. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. Larsen played the guitar and did half of the vocals and songwriting. After touring the world and producing two albums with hits such as Don't Say You Love Me, Mirror Mirror, and Everything, M2M was broken up by Atlantic Records in September 2002. She released her debut album, under the surface, in Norway o
Key facts
- Born
- Marit Elisabeth Larsen , ( 1983-07-01 ) 1 July 1983 (age 42) , Lørenskog , Norway
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter musician
- Years active
- 1993–present
- Spouse
- Alexander Buchmann ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. September 30, 2016</span>"}]]}'>2016 )
- Genres
- Pop folk pop-folk acoustic
- Instruments
- Vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin , harmonica, glockenspiel , zither , tambura , domra , celesta
- Labels
- Atlantic (1998–2002) , EMI (1996–1998, 2005–2013) , Warner (2013–2015) ( Nordic countries ) , Sony (2008–2015) (other countries) , Håndbrygg Records (2016–present)
- Website
- www .maritlarsen .no
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elisabeth
- Family name
- Larsen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Lørenskog
- Spouse
- Alexander Buchmann
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk-pop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Atlantic Records
- Official website
- www.maritlarsen.com
- Image
- 2015 Marit Larsen - by 2eight - DSC3575.jpg
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- Commons category
- Marit Larsen
- date of birth
- 1983-07-01
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
- social media followers
- 25931
- birth name
- Marit Elisabeth Larsen
- member of
- M2M
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Works in European collections
8 objects attributed to Marit Larsen, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Marit Elisabeth Larsen (born 1 July 1983) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She began playing violin aged five and played it until the age of eight. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. She then pursued her own music career, releasing her debut solo album Under the Surface in 2006. Her second album, The Chase, was released in Norway in October 2008. Her third album, titled Spark was released in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland on 18 November 2011, and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 16 December 2011. Her fourth studio album When the Morning Comes was released on 20 October 2014. Larsen toured in its support within Norway with her own concerts, played songs from the album in Germany and Switzerland at public festivals and was the opening act at two of Johannes Oerding's concerts in November 2015.
Career
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