a cappella
Music performed a cappella ( , , ; ), less commonly spelled acapella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Rena ...
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vocal group
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group, musical group, or a band is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrume ...
formed in
Lørenskog
is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. A suburb of Oslo, it is part of the Oslo urban area and the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipa ...
in 1986.
The group performs both songs with only ''a cappella'' and songs with guitar or other unconventional music instruments like stir pans or pots. The repertoire includes songs written by its members and cover songs with Norwegian lyrics, often translated from English with a
humor
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istic twist.
Their first album, ''Dæng Dæng'', was released in 1991; they have published eight studio albums and one best-of album, all produced by
Håkon Iversen
Haakon, also spelled Håkon (in Norway), Hakon (in Denmark), Håkan (in Sweden),Oxford Dictionary of First Names Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle, Flavia Hodges - 2006 "Håkon Norwegian: from the Old Norse personal name Hákon or Háukon, from hā ...
. The debut album and several others have gone gold or platinum. ''Holiholihooo ...'', released in 1992, is their best-selling album, with more than 70,000 copies sold, and the single "Gud! hvor du er deilig" sold 40,000.
"Feit" (1990), "Hyttetur" (1991), "Mercedes Benz" (1992) and "Gummihatt" (1994) reached the top 10 on the
VG-lista
VG-lista is the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from Norwegian and international artists. It is presented weekly in the newspaper ''Verdens Gang, VG''. The data is collected by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen Soundscan Inte ...
singles chart, and "Gud! Hvor du er deilig" (1996) reached #1. On the albums chart, ''Dæng dæng'' (1991), ''Holiholihooo ...'' (1992), ''Ypper'u donk'' (1994) and ''Kort ved øra'' (1996) reached the top 5.
Members
* Finn Evensen (1986-)
* Per Henrik Gusrud (1999-)
* Robert Skrolsvik (1986-)
* Carl Einar Traaen (2002-)
* Frank Øren (1989-)