Morten Abel

Among Norway’s most beloved and successful performers, the genial pop/rock and roll vocalist and songwriter Morten Abel has been around the national music spotlight for pretty much three years — first seeing that the lead vocalist of the group Mods in the first ’80s, then using the Sept When and Peltz in the 1990s, so that as a single performer through the 2000s. Created Morten Abel Knutsen in 1962 and elevated in the north city of Bodø, he relocated south to Stavanger at age group 15 and effectively auditioned to sing for the rock-band Catrix, which later on became Mods. Within their five-year operate (from 1980-1984), Mods released two Best 20 Norwegian albums and another, limited-edition English-language launch, Period Machine. Knutsen fallen his surname following the group dissolved and released a single solitary in 1985, but quickly regrouped with two of his previous bandmates to create the Sept When in 1987. That group would become a lot more effective than Mods, topping the Norwegian graphs with three consecutive albums in the first ’90s. After a stab at performing in the 1993 film Hodet Over Vannet and an individual album using the trio Peltz in 1996 (which reached number 2), Abel shifted gears and embarked on the single career, carrying on his string of Best Five successes with 1997’s Snowboy. Demonstrating a clear broad charm without pandering to particularly commercial likes or styles, Abel’s single work occasionally discovered him incorporating digital and dance-based components into his understated but frequently playful pop/rock and roll design. His three following albums — Right here We Go After that, You and I, I’ll KEEP COMING BACK and Like You Forever, and Becoming Everything, Knowing Nothing at all — all topped the graphs, and were accompanied by a set of compilations offering several new songs. In 2004 Abel made an appearance in his second film, Alt For Egil, in 2006 he came back towards the pop graphs with the recording Some people CAN MAKE It, and in 2007 he wedded longtime sweetheart Gry Isabell Sannes; their child is spectacularly called Ella Dorthea Joppeline Navaho Snowflake Abel Sannes Knutsen.