Anne Marie Almedal

Anne Marie Almedal
Anne Marie Almedal
Born	6 December 1971 (age 53); Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
Genres	Pop; Electronic
Occupation	Singer
Instrument	Vocals
Labels	+47 ; Warner Music
Website	Official website

Anne Marie Almedal (born 6 December 1971 in Kristiansand, Norway) is a Norwegian musician. She was lead vocalist in the band Velvet Belly (1989–2003) and has since released five solo albums.

Career

Almedal is a graduate of the Rhythmic music program at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music. She studied Dutch language and culture at the University of Leiden and a foundation in Christianity studies at the University of Oslo. She currently works as managing director at AKKS Kristiansand, an idealistic music organisation working for equality and gender balance in the Norwegian music industry.

She is known to many as the composer and singer of the theme song for the TV series Himmelblå broadcast by NRK.^[1]^[2] In 2000, she married the musician and composer Nicholas Sillitoe and they currently live in Vågsbygd, Kristiansand together with their two children, Florian and Stella Marie.

Discography

Solo albums

2007: The Siren and the Sage (+47/Warner Music)
2010: Blue Sky Blue (+47/VME)
2012: Memory Lane (+47/VME)
2018: Lightshadow (+47/VME)
2022: We Dance Alone (+47/VME)

Collaborations

Within Velvet Belly

1992: Colours (dBut, released again with new cover by BMG in 1995)
1993: Little Lies (dBut)
1994: Window Tree (dBut)
1995: Window Tree (BMG, new release with new record-company)
1996: The Landing (BMG)
1997: Lucia (BMG) (European and Japanese releases, with different covers; Japanese release includes The Man With the Child in His Eyes, a cover of the Kate Bush song)
2003: Velvet Belly (Playground) double-album

With Lars Saabye Christensen, Ole Henrik Giørtz, Anne Marie Giørtz, Kristin Kajander & Elin Rosseland

1999: Skrapjern Og Silke (Grappa Music)

With Jan Bang, Erik Honoré & Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad

2002: Going Nine Ways From Wednesday (Pan M Records)

With Green Carnation

2007: A Night Under the Dam – live DVD (Sublife Records)

Film music

Himmelblå, for TV series Himmelblå at NRK.^[2]

Dirk Ohm

References

^ Vidar Bergan, Jon (23 December 2012). "Anne Marie Almedal – Memory Lane" (in Norwegian). Musikknyheter.no. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Himmelblå". Retrieved 19 October 2013 – via YouTube.

External links

Livet med og uten «Himmelblå» Anmeldelse av Blue Sky Blue
Anne Marie Almedal – memory lane on Wordpress.com
Ingrid Michalsen: Portrettet: Anne Marie Almedal. Article in Fædrelandsvennen God helg 22. 22 May 2010, pp. 20–23.

[musikknyheter-1] Vidar Bergan, Jon (23 December 2012). "Anne Marie Almedal – Memory Lane" (in Norwegian). Musikknyheter.no. Retrieved 19 October 2013.

[youtube-2] "Himmelblå". Retrieved 19 October 2013 – via YouTube.

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