Hilde Marie Kjersem, also known as Marie Munroe, (born 27 April 1981 in

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) is a Norwegian artist, musician and songwriter signed to Warner Music Norway. She started out as a jazz musician, but has had an organic and natural development towards the world of pop. In January 2016, Marie Munroe released her fourth solo album called ''Under My Skin.'' Munroe har been nominated for two Norwegian Grammy Awards (

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), and has collaborated with some of Norway's most talented musicians - among them Sivert Høyem og Bernhoft.

Career

Munroe started her career early, and already as a teenager, she toured with

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, and at sixteen she joined the rock and rap band San Jose. She studied jazz at The

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. At the academy she had the Norwegian guitarist

Jon Eberson Jon Arild Eberson (born 6 January 1953) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, the son of jazz guitarist Leif Eberson (1925–1970), and the father of keyboardist Marte Maaland Eberson. He was a member of the bands Moose Loose (1973–77), ...

as her mentor, which turned into a great musical collaboration and three album releases since 2005. During her studies she also started the band TUB Quartet including Andreas Hessen Schei (piano), Pål Hausken (drums) and Magne Vestrum (bass). They released the album ''Red Shoes Diary'' with their own compositions in 2004. In 2006 she traveled with Schei to Nepal and Jazzmandu in Kathmandu founded by Rikskonsertene. In 2010 she left

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and started her own label Brødr. Recordings, with her own recording studio Wazzup Records. Marie Munroe was earlier performing under her birth name, and released the album ''A Killer For That Ache'' (2008), ''Let's Let Go'' (2011) and ''If We Make It to the Future'' (2013) as Hilde Marie Kjersem, before she took on the artist name 'Marie Munroe'. She was nominated for two Norwegian Grammy's for the album ''If We Make It to the Future'' for Female Artist and Composer. In 2013 she won the ' Gammleng-award', and the year after she won the '

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' in the category This Years Challenger for the album ''If We Make It to the Future''. Later, she has released the singles "Like a Drumbeat" (2014), "A Million Things" (2015) and finally the album ''Under My Skin'' (2016) as Marie Munroe.

Discography

Solo albums

*2008: ''A Killer For That Ache'' (

) *2011: ''Let's Let Go'' (Warner Music Norway), band members: Peder Kjellsby,

Jørgen Munkeby Jørgen Munkeby (born 3 September 1980 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz and heavy metal musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, known as the frontman in the band Shining and former member of Jaga Jazzist. Career Munkeby formed ...

, Magne Vestrum,

Jarle Bernhoft Jarle Bernhoft (; Jarle Norman Bernhoft-Sjødin; born 21 June 1976), known professionally as Bernhoft (often stylized as Bern/hoft), is a Norwegian singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and lyricist. Bernhoft is from Nittedal in Norway. His be ...

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen (born 4 February 1982) is a Norwegian guitarist, vocalist and composer. She is known for a series of album releases and collaborations with musicians like Jon Eberson, Jarle Bernhoft and Hilde Marie Kjersem. Career ...

, Even Helte Hermansen,

Sjur Miljeteig Sjur Miljeteig (born 4 January 1974) is a Norwegian jazz musician (trumpet), composer and author, married 20 October 2007 to the actress Ane Dahl Torp (1975), and they live in Oslo with their two children, a boy (2010) and a girl (2012). He is k ...

, Erlend Dalen & Christer Knutsen *2013: ''If We Make It to the Future'' (Warner Music Norway) *2016: ''Under My Skin'' (Warner Music Norway)

Collaborative works

;With

*2004: ''Twelve o'clock tales'' (

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) *2008: ''Comfort Call'' (Shipwrecked) *2011: ''The Coarse Sand and the Names We Wrote'' (J.E.G. Records) *2016: "My thieving heart" (Sivert Hoyem, Lioness Album) ;Other projects *2004: ''Red Shoes Diary'' (

), with TUB Quartet *2005: ''Would you please welcome'' (Frode Records), with Christer Knutsen and The Sacred Hearts *2006: ''Grand Hotel'',(Frode Records), with Christer Knutsen and The Sacred Hearts

References

External links

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Biography
at Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian)
Hilde Marie Kjersem - My Man
on

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