Anneli Drecker

Anneli Drecker is a Norwegian singer, composer, arranger, and keyboardist who’s best known while the frontwoman for the gothic pop music group Bel Canto. She’s documented and toured having a diverse selection of performers including Jah Wobble, a-ha, Röyksopp, and Jan Bang, to mention several. Born and elevated in Tromsø, Drecker was an celebrity before she became a specialist musician, showing up as Margit in Laila Mikkelsen’s 1983 film Søsken på Guds Jord. She made a decision to turn into a musician after hearing Depeche Mode’s solitary “CANNOT Get Plenty of,” from her old brother’s record collection. At age 17, she, Nils Johansen, and Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere) created Bel Canto and relocated to Brussels. Their debut recording, White-Out Conditions, made an appearance in 1987 from Crammed Discs. Using traditional devices and multiple tonalities, the documenting drew rave evaluations in Norway and quickly found its method to the others of Europe, america, and Canada, where in fact the band authorized to Nettwerk. Drecker’s tone of voice was alternately in comparison to Elizabeth Fraser’s (Cocteau Twins), Lisa Gerrard’s (Deceased Can Dance), and Annie Lennox’s (Eurythmics). Another album, Wild birds of Passing, was released in 1990 to almost general acclaim. In 1992, Drecker collaborated with composer Hector Zazou and made an appearance on his Sahara Blue record. She also resumed her performing career — nevertheless briefly — showing up in movie director Thomas Robsahm’s Svarte Pantere. Jenssen still left Bel Canto quickly before the documenting of their third record, Shimmering, Warm & Shiny, that was released in 1992. Drecker sang on Motorpsycho’s Timothy’s Monster in 1994. Bel Canto documented two even more albums in the ’90s prior to going on hiatus for several years to go after solo tasks. Drecker undertook mainly collaborative function until 2000, when she released her initial solo record, Tundra. That same season, she became a theatrical celebrity, showing up in Par Lagerqvist’s play Bøddelen and started employed in the studio room and touring with Röyksopp (the last mentioned, a romantic relationship she preserved through 2012). Drecker continuing employed in the movie theater, appearing in significant works such as for example Peer Gynt and Tom Waits’ The Dark Rider, and in the film De 7 Dødssyndene, a collaborative function from four directors. In 2002, Bel Canto (Drecker and Johansen) reunited release a Dorothy’s Victory, having a huge cast of music artists and co-producers. Drecker’s collaborative function continuing, she sang on albums by a-ha (and toured European countries with them double) and Apoptygma Berzerk, amongst others. In 2004 she was a juror on Norway’s edition of Pop Idol. Her second single full-length, Frolic, premiered by Capitol in 2005. She performed only select displays in support because she was pregnant; she offered delivery to a child in 2006. Drecker was granted Norway’s recognized Nordlypreisen in 2007 on her behalf lifetime accomplishment in the arts (earlier winners included Mari Boine and Jenssen). This year 2010 she reunited with Johansen and Jenssen for any Bel Canto concert in the Døgnvill Festival in Tromsø, carrying out Bjornstad’s Oratorium, and released the pop solitary “Unseen” in cooperation with Simone Larsen and Jonny Sjo. In 2014, Drecker made an appearance as Penelope in composer Trygve Brøske’s operetta Kiberg Odyssey using the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra. A 12 months later on she performed as Toto in a fresh, experimental adaptation from the Wizard of Oz from the Hålogaland Teater aimed by Jon Tombre, with a totally new score compiled by Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan of Motorpsycho. Also in 2015, Drecker released her following album, Stones & Straws, on Rune Grammofon. She made up and organized the music and created the documenting. Its songs had been based on the task of cult poet Arvid Hanssen and translated to British by designer and article writer Roy-Frode Løvland. The arranged presented an all-star cast including guitarist Eivind Aarset, drummer Rune Arnesen, bassist Ole Vegard Skauge, as well as the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra.