Eriksen

Eriksen is a Norwegian root base music duo that released some popular albums through the early to mid-’90s. Made up of siblings Rita Eriksen (vocals) and Frank Eriksen (vocals, electric guitar), the duo splintered in the past due ’90s, with Rita getting into a similarly effective single career. Born on, may 26, 1966, in Sola, Norway, Rita produced her single debut in 1988 with Back again from Wonderland, an English-language pop record loaded with well-known criteria. Little commercial achievement came of this work, nevertheless, and four years transferred before she and her sibling made their record debut as Eriksen in 1992 with Two Blue. The record was a significant success, achieving the Top Ten from the Norwegian albums graph and garnering vital acclaim using a 1992 Spellemannprisen award for greatest Norwegian root base & nation music record of the entire year. Following Eriksen albums WATER Is normally Wide (1994) and Alt Vende Tebage (1995) had been similarly successful, achieving quantities six and three, respectively, over the Norwegian albums graph. Rita after that collaborated with Irish vocalist Dolores Keane over the record Tideland (1996), a assortment of traditional music that was another big strike. A following full-length work by Rita and her sibling, Blåmandag (1998), was a disappointment, nevertheless, as well as the duo dissolved their collaboration in its wake. For the time being, Rita withdrew through the recording marketplace for quite some time. She eventually came back first having a low-key collaborative work using the Queen Bees, Through the Fountain (2005), just before unveiling Hjerteslag (2008), her second-ever solo recording. Released twenty years after her single recording debut, Hjerteslag was a significant comeback success, achieving number six within the Norwegian albums graph and warranting the discharge from the chart-topping Eriksen retrospective, De Aller Beste, quickly afterward.