Heidi Hauge (born 14 October 1967) is a Norwegian singer of
folk
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and
country music
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.
She began her career as a
schlager singer. In 1999 she was noted by a manager of the Norwegian label Showtime Records, thereby signing her first contract. The following year she published her debut album, ''Country Time''.
In 2001 her third album, ''Country Girl'', reached the 15th place in the Norwegian album charts. Her best standing was the 7th place in 2004, with the same album. Six of her albums also entered the Danish charts, four of them in the top ten.
By the end of 2002, with four published albums, Heidi Hauge had sold 170,000 records in Norway and 25,000 in Denmark, where she had appeared in a
TV 2 program to promote her music.
The majority of her songs are covers of country music classics, most of them in English but also in the Norwegian language.
Discography
Albums
* 2000 – ''Country Time''
* 2001 – ''Country Rose''
* 2001 – ''Country Girl''
* 2002 – ''Country Blue''
* 2002 – ''Country Dance''
[ This album contains the cover of the country classic '' Save the Last Dance for Me''.]
A video was published on Youtube in 2010
''Youtube videoclip''
* 2003 – ''Country perler''
* 2003 – ''Country jul''
(with Liv Marit Wedvik and Jenny Jenssen)
* 2004 – ''Country Jewels''
* 2005 – ''Country Gold''
* 2005 – ''Movin' On''
* 2007 – ''Some Broken Hearts...''
* 2007 – ''Julekveld på landet''
* 2016 – ''Acoustic Country Duets''
(with Arne Benoni)
* 2019 – ''Best of Heidi Hauge''
Singles
* 2000 – "
Seven Spanish Angels
"Seven Spanish Angels" is a song written by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser, and recorded by Ray Charles as a duet with Willie Nelson. It was released in November 1984 as a single from Charles' 1984 album ''Friendship''. Charles and Nelson split the ...
"
* 2007 – "
Saturday Night"
* 2014 – "
I Can't Be Bothered Now"
(with Arne Benoni)
References
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Norwegian country singers
Norwegian folk singers
Musicians from Skien
1967 births
Living people