Jarle Bernhoft

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Jarle Bernhoft started his career as an angst-ridden rock frontman before switching to a distinctive, one-man band design of retro-soul that he alternated with a complete backing band. Delivered in Nittedal in 1976 for an opera vocalist and a music instructor, Bernhoft appreciated formal music research in his formative years and became mixed up in local music picture while in supplementary college. After graduating, he previously minor achievement in the funk-rock quartet Explicit Lyrics in the ’90s, but attained his commercial discovery after teaming up with bandmate Fridtjof Nilsen to co-found Period. With bassist Kim Nordbæk and drummer Fredrik Wallumrød, they released 2004’s Gil Norton-produced Mass Distraction and 2005’s TOP follow-up, Vs. Period, before disbanding. After reinventing himself being a traditional soul man along with his 2008 single debut Ceramik Town Chronicles, which strike number 1 in Norway, he released the 2010 live record 1: Guy 2: Music group, crediting himself as merely Bernhoft. Building music group agreements on the journey using looping pedals, the performer discovered worldwide popularity in 2011 when he made an appearance single in the Ellen Degeneres Present to execute a monitor from his second LP, Solidarity Breaks. It spent seven weeks near the top of the Norwegian recording graph. He relocated to Brooklyn, NY for the discharge of his following full-length, 2014’s Islander, which presented a duet with neo-soul icon Jill Scott. The recording came back Bernhoft to the very best of the graphs in Norway and in addition gained a Grammy nomination in the U.S. for Greatest R&B Recording. Amid trips with and without his handpicked Norwegian support band the style Bruises or American equal the Shudderbugs, he released the EP Quit/Shutup/Shout It Out in the springtime of 2016. Another EP celebrating funk and spirit, The Morning Shows up, adopted in January 2017.