Kari Gjærum (born 23 November 1952 in
Porsgrunn
is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Porsgrunn (town), city ...
) is a
Norwegian singer. She was educated at the ''Østlandets Musikk-konservatorium'' and ''Statens Operaskole'' and has been a professional artist since 1979. She has worked as a singer and backing singer on a number of recordings with other artists, participated in several TV-productions and musicals and shows. She has played leading roles in the Carte Blanche-show Jazzle Dazzle on ''Victoria Theater'' in
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
in 1985 and in the children's musical ''Alexsander'' on Chateau Neuf. She played
Fantine
Fantine (French pronunciation: ) is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel ''Les Misérables''. She is a young ''Grisette (person), grisette'' in Paris who is impregnated by a rich student. After he abandons her, she is forced to look ...
in ''
Les Misérables
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'' on ''Det Norske Teateret'' in 1988. She has also worked in shows with artists like
Wenche Myhre
Wenche Synnøve Myhre (born 15 February 1947), known in German as Wencke Myhre, is a Norwegian singer who has had a great number of hit songs since the 1960s in the Norwegian, Danish, German and Swedish markets and languages. She represented Ger ...
and
.
Together with
Marianne vor Thornburg and
Lupe Moe she was a member of the group Chico-Chac which in 1986 released the album Chico-Chac. In 1989 she participated in the Norwegian final of
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...
with the song ''Barneøyne''. She has also appeared as a backing singer several times in the competition, and made a total of 11 appearances in Norway's preselection, the
Norsk Melodi Grand Prix, and 5 appearances in the international final. She was a
backing singer when
Bobbysocks
Bobbysocks is a Norwegian pop duo consisting of Norwegian Hanne Krogh and Swedish-Norwegian Elisabeth Andreassen. They won the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song "La det swinge" ("Let it swing"). Elisabeth went by the surname Andreasson ...
won the
Eurovision Song Contest
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in 1985.
External links
CV for Kari Gjærum Hjemmeside
References
1952 births
Living people
Norwegian artists
Norwegian women singers
Musicians from Porsgrunn
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