Rita Eriksen

Rita Eriksen is a Norwegian singer who, furthermore to periodic single initiatives, is joined by her sibling, Frank Eriksen (vocals, electric guitar), in the root base music duo Eriksen, which released some popular albums through the early to mid-’90s. Delivered on, may 26, 1966, in Sola, Norway, she produced her single debut in 1988 with Back again from Wonderland, an English-language pop record loaded with well-known specifications. Little commercial achievement came of this work, nevertheless, and four years handed before Rita and her sibling made their record debut as Eriksen in 1992 with Two Blue. The brother-and-sister duo’s record debut was a significant success, achieving the Top Ten from the Norwegian albums graph and garnering important acclaim using a 1992 Spellemannprisen award for greatest Norwegian root base & nation music record of the entire year. Following Eriksen albums WATER Can be Wide (1994) and Alt Vende Tebage (1995) had been similarly successful, achieving amounts six and three respectively for the Norwegian albums graph. Rita after that collaborated with Irish vocalist Dolores Keane for 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, and there will be no forthcoming Eriksen result for any decade’s time, not really before chart-topping best-of collection De Aller Beste in ’09 2009. For the time being, Rita withdrew from your recording marketplace for quite some time. She eventually came back first having a low-key collaborative work using the Queen Bees, From your 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 around the Norwegian albums graph and warranting the discharge of these chart-topping Eriksen retrospective, De Aller Beste, quickly afterward.