Margit Bakken (born 8 April 1967) is a Norwegian musician (vocals, guitar) and songwriter. She is one of the most established

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

musicians in Norway, and often performs with

Rita Engedalen Rita Engedalen (born 17 December 1971) is a Norwegian blues musician (vocals, guitar) and songwriter. Rita Engedalen and Margit Bakken were top billing at the Sunflower Blues Festival in August 2015 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States. ...

as the

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Women in Blues.Et helt opptog av blåstrømper: Rita Engedalen og Margit Bakken i spissen for Women In Blues
(

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...

) She has performed as a singer since the age of eight. In 1997, she was a contestant in the Norwegian version of the musical television show ''

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'', where she was one of the finalists. Her debut album, ''On The Other Side'', was released in 2009.Debutant med erfaring
(TA.no) In 2012, she released her second album, ''Women in Blues'', with Rita Engedalen.

Discography

*''On the Other Side'' (2009) *''Women in Blues'' (2012), with

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Margit Bakken
in Setesdalswiki Norwegian women singers Norwegian singer-songwriters Norwegian songwriters Norwegian blues singers Norwegian blues guitarists English-language singers from Norway Living people Musicians from Notodden 1967 births {{Singer-songwriter-stub