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  Dagny

  For Dagny it all came together for the first time when her single Backbeat surprised the industry in 2015. The road to international attention was quite short as the track rose the charts in multiple territories, resulting in over 45 million cumulative streams. Since then she has grown to become one of Norway’s most exciting artists, live performers and songwriters – with over 1 billion streams, sold out tours, and critical acclaim by everyone from Nylon and Billboard to The Guardian and Harpers Bazaar. Following up Backbeat with the Ultraviolet the same year – Dagny proved she was far from a one hit wonder. The EP received unanimous praise from critics with features such as Billboard’s 10 Pop Stars To Watch In 2017, and VEVO’s Ones To Watch 2017. Dagny further confirmed her standing with hit singles Wearing Nothing and Love You Like That. She joined forces with SEEB in 2018 to deliver the hit Drink About – a track streamed over 350 million times by 2019. Among her many achievements, Dagny also co-wrote Katy Perry’s Never Really Over – closing in on a powerful 1 billion streams to date. In 2020 she finally released her long awaited debut album - Strangers / Lovers A strong conceptual project divided into two contrasting parts. The first depicting the sweet and ecstatic feelings of being in love, while the second part confronts the feelings of falling out of love. The album contain singles like Come Over and her award winning multi platinum mega hit Somebody.

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  Katarina Barruk

  Katarina Barruk is known as one of Norway’s most talented live artists. Over the last decade she has toured through Europe, giving highly appreciated concerts. Her performance at this years Øya Festival was acclaimed as ¨Øya’s biggest revelation¨ by The Line of Best Fit (https://rb.gy/13cck).
  Barruk’s unique, distinctive voice, in combination with a steadfast presence on stage creates a space of vulnerability and strength that is unlike anything else. She delivers a fierce, yet deeply down-to-earth, mix of pop music, traditional yoik and improvisational elements. Katarina sings in her mother tongue, Ume Sámi language. The language is on UNESCO’s red list of critically endangered languages, but many Umesámis are taking the language back. I do not use Ume Sámi language in music to prove a point, it is more about the fact that I can be myself. Doing music in Ume Sámi is a way of inviting my friends and the audience into my universe, where Ume Sámi is norm, highly topical, and alive.

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  nonne

  Dealing out repetitive riffs and danceable rhythms, nonne is a psych-electro-rock duo based in Tromsø, Norway. Singing in Northern Norwegian, the childhood friends create hypnotic music with a soupçon of baggy, drawing references from the 90s Madchester scene and Krautrock. Their 2023 debut album Omf! contains dreamy and spacey gems like ‘Ikke Normal’ and ‘Overalt’.