Christine Sandtorv (born 1976) is an artist from
Bergen,
Norway. She has won five
Spellemann Awards, three of them as a solo artist.
Career
Sandtorv started the music group
Ephemera
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in 1994 together with Inger-Lise Størksen and Jannicke Larsen. All members handled vocals, guitar and songwriting, and Sandtorv and Larsen also handled keyboards. The group won two
Spellemann Awards.
Sandtorv made her debut as a solo artist in 2006 with the album ''First Last Dance''. She then made a series of
children's albums
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called ''Stjerneteller'', which consisted of the standalone albums ''Godnattsanger'' (2009), ''Gullamanter'' (2012), ''Dinomaur'' (2014), ''Klokvarm'' (2016) and ''Automagisk'' (2021).
[ Three of the albums earned her further Spellemann Awards in the children's music category, first in 2012, then in 2014 and again in 2021.]singer-songwriter
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albums; ''I Mellom Skyer'' (2017), ''Hei menneske'' (2020) and ''Lyden av et år'' (2022).[
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References
1976 births
Living people
Musicians from Bergen
Norwegian musicians
Spellemannprisen winners
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