Amanda Klara Georgiadis Tenfjord ( el, Αμάντα Γεωργιάδη, Amánta Georgiádi; born 9 January 1997) is a Greek-Norwegian singer and songwriter. She represented Greece in the

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with the song " Die Together".

Early life and education

Tenfjord was born on 9 January 1997 to a Norwegian mother and a Greek father. According to her own statements, she was born in

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, Greece, but this is contradicted by a reliable secondary source which states that she was born in the Central Hospital of

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, Norway. She was baptised in Vatne in October 1998. Tenfjord lived her first years in Ioannina, before she and her family moved to Tennfjord in Norway. She attended in Ålesund. In 2015, she moved to

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to study

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at the

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. In 2019, she announced that she had put her studies on hold to focus on her musical career.

Career

Tenfjord started taking piano lessons at the age of five. Tenfjord's song "Run" won the Music Prize in 2015 and appeared in an advertising video for Personskadeforbundet LTN in 2014. In 2016, she participated in the music competition '' The Stream'' on TV 2, where she was placed among the top 30 participants. In 2019, she appeared in a programme on

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with the song "Let Me Think", and performed at the music festival ''Trondheim Calling''. Tenfjord has also toured with the Norwegian band

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. Tenfjord was awarded the Haram Municipality Youth Culture Prize in 2019. On 15 December 2021, she was announced as the Greek representative for the

. Tenfjord was the opening act for Madrugada in September 2022 at the

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. Tenfjord received a price of honour from both the county governor in

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, Alekos Kaxrimani, and from the Major of

, Moses Elisaf, for her contribution for Greece in Eurovision Song Contest 2022. On October 21, 2022 she released her debut album 'In Hindsight', featuring 13 songs.

Discography

Studio albums

* '' In Hindsight'' (2022)

Extended plays

* ''First Impression'' (2018) * ''Miss the Way You Missed Me'' (2021)

Singles

* "Run" (2014) * "I Need Lions" (2016) * "Man of Iron" (2017) * "First Impression" (2018) * "No Thanks" (2018) * "Let Me Think" (2018) * "Pick a Card" (2018) * "The Floor Is Lava" (2019) * "Troubled Water" (2019) * "Kill the Lonely" (2019) * "As If" (2020) * "Pressure" (2020) * "Then I Fell in Love" (2020) * "Miss the Way You Missed Me" (2021) * "Promises" (2021) * " Die Together" (2022) * "Plans" (2022) * "All In" (2022) * "Aman" (feat. Evangelia) (2022) * "I'll Stay" (2022)

Notelist

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tenfjord, Amanda 1997 births Living people Musicians from Ålesund 21st-century Greek women singers 21st-century Norwegian women singers 21st-century Norwegian singers English-language singers from Greece English-language singers from Norway Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Greece Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2022 Greek pop singers Greek songwriters Norwegian people of Greek descent Greek people of Norwegian descent Citizens of Greece through descent Norwegian pop singers Norwegian songwriters