Morten was born on 14th september 1959 in Kongsberg,
Norway. He is the vocalist and frontman of the norwegian band a-ha. Besides
a-ha, Morten has also worked on different soloprojects. On this site you can
inform yourself about Morten´s solo albums and more.
Poetenes Evangelium,
1993
Jesu liv i norske dikt
(only in Norway)
Watch
also:
Lyrics
1. Natten
2. Hymne til Josef
3. Salome
4.
Elisabet synger ved Johannes døperens død
5. Fra templet
6. Hvor krybben stod
7. Rytteren
8. Sviket
9. Påske
10.
Den fremmede
11. Den fremmede taler til mennesket
12. Engelen |
Wild Seed, 1995
watch also:
Lyrics
1. Burning out again (a kind of christmas card)
2.
Spanish steps
3. Half in love half in hate
4. Brodsky tune
5. Wild
seed
6. Los angeles
7. East timor
8. Lay me down tonight
9.
Tell me what you see
10. Stay
11. Lord
12. Ready to go home |
Vogts Villa, 1996
(only in Norway)
Watch also:
Lyrics
1.
Tilbake til livet
2. Jeg kjenner ingen fremtid
(engl. All of you
concerned)
3. Herre i drømmen
4. Fremmed her
(engl. Gospel
from a heaven)
5. Søndag morgen
6. Gammal og vis
7.
Taksameteret går
8. Himmelske danser
9. Lyser når du
drar
10. Vuggevise
(engl. Lay me down tonight,
Wild Seed) |
Letter from Egypt, 2008
1.
Darkspace
2. Send me an Angel
3. We´ll never speak again
4.
There are many ways to die
5. With you withe me
6. Letter from
Egypt
7. A name is a name
8. Movies
9. Slanted floor
(on the
norwegian CD Shooting Star)
10. Anyone
11. Should the rain fall
12.
The one you are |
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Burning out
again
(a kind of christmas card), 1995,
from the
album Wild Seed
1. Burning out again
(a kind of christmas
card)
2. A change is gonna come
3. Lay me down tonight |
Spanish steps, 1995,
(only in Norway),
from the album Wild Seed
1. Spanish steps
2.
Girl, watch also:
Lyrics
3. Lord |
Los Angeles, 1996,
(only in
Norway),
from the album Wild Seed
1. Los Angeles
2. Brodsky
Tune
3. Wild Seed |
Heaven´s
not for saints, 1996,
(only in Norway and England),
Morten sung
the song at the Eurovision Song Contest in Norway.
Watch also:
Lyrics
|
Tilbake til livet,
1996,
(only in Norway,
1 Track Promo-Single)
from the album
Vogts Villa |
Herre i drømmen, 1996,
(only in Norway,
1 Track Promo-Single),
from the album Vogts
Villa
|
Gildas Prayer,
2004,
from the album
Earth Affair -
Chapter One
of Gulli Briem
1. Gulli's Edit
2. Source
Mix
(Mixed by Addi 800)
3. Radio Remix
4. Album Version |
Movies, 2007,
(only in Norway)
from the
album
Letter from Egypt
1.
Movies |
Darkspace, 2008,
(only in
Germany)
from the album
Letter from
Egypt
1. Darkspace
2. All of you concerned |
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Kamilla og tyven, Soundtrack, 1987,
(only in
Norway),
Morten sings at the Soundtrack
Kamilla og
Sebastian,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Jan Bang,
Frozen feelings, 1988,
(only in
Norway),
Morten sings with Jan
Merciful waters |
Speiderkassetten, 1989,
Morten
sings with Björn Eidsvåg
Det er ennå
tid,
watch also: Lyrics |
Silje Nergaard, 1991,
Morten sings with Silje
Where you are,
watch also: Lyrics |
Coneheads, Soundtrack, 1993,
Morten sings on
the Soundtrack
Can´t take my eyes off you,
watch
also: Lyrics |
Anne Grete Preus,
Millimeter, 1994,
(only
in Norway),
Morten sings with Anne Grete
Millimeter |
Missa Caritatis, 1995,
(only in Norway),
Morten sings Hymne til kjærleiken
and
Sanctus,
watch also:
Lyrics:
Hymne til
kjærleiken
Sanctus |
Lekekameratene,
Kom ut og
lek, 1995,
(only in Norway),
Morten sings the song
Evig
ung,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Jørun Bøgeberg,
Songs from the
pocket, 1996,
(only in Norway),
Morten sings the song
Never
hear that laugh,
watch also:
Lyrics.
The
cover of the CD is
designed by Magne Furuholmen. |
Kvirre Virre Vitt, 1997,
Morten sings the
song
Kråkevise
|
Sophie´s
world, The musical,1998,
Morten sings on the Soundtrack
A
jester in our town,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Cultures spans the world,
1998,
(only in Sweden / Norway),
Morten sings the song
Jungle
of beliefs,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Perleporten,
2000,
Morten sings with Anne Marie Almedal
Han er min sang og min
glede,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Sølvguttene synger julen inn, 2001
(only
in Norway),
Morten sings the song
Mitt hjerte alltid vanker
|
"Nå lukker seg mitt oye", 2001,
("Kveldsbønner"), (only in Norway,
IKO Forlaget,
Oslo),
Morten sings the song
Me slår framfor krossen
din,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Ragnar Bjerkreim,
Musikalske Fasetter, 2001
Morten sings the songs
Jungle of
beliefs and
Kamilla og Sebastian
|
Junoon,
Daur-e-Junoon,
2002,
Morten sings the song
Piya,
watch also:
Lyrics |
Gulli Briem
Earth
Affair - Chapter One, 2004
Morten sings the song
Gildas
Prayer,
watch also: Lyrics |
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Morten Harket was born on 14th
september 1959 in Kongsberg /
Norway and he growed up
with his parents Reidar and Henny Harket and his brothers - Gunvald, Hakon,
Kjetil - and his sister - Ingunn - in Asker, not far away from
Oslo. Biologie und botanik have been Morten's favourites subjects in
school. Also in his free time he spent many hours in the natur - he had on own
cultivation of orchids.
Besides Morten's passion had always been music
and in the year 1975 he was in a band called Soldier Blue from Norway .
Magne "Mags" Furuholmen and Pål Waaktaar-Savoy - the two other guys from
a-ha - were members in the band Brigdes and they have seen Morten in
1982 when the band Soldier Blue played in a music club in Oslo . Magne
and Pål liked the voice of Morten and they asked him to come with them to
London, but Morten need some time to think about that. On 14th september 1982,
Morten's 23rd birthday, the three guys founded a-ha (watch also
a-ha in general).
1987 Morten played a
small part in a norwegian movie Kamilla og tyven. Morten sings also the
titeltrack of the movie, called Kamilla og Sebastian (watch also
more songs of Morten). The second part of this
movie came out in1988.
| Morten married on 11th
february 1989 Camilla
Malmquist from Sweden. Morten met Camilla in november 1986 for the first
time at the airport in Amsterdam - when a-ha were on tour (
a-ha on tour). Morten and Camilla have three children
- Jacob Oscar Martinus, born 14th may 1989; - Johnatan, born 30th december
1990; - and Tomine, born 14th april 1993. |
from the left: Jakob, Jonathan, Tomine
and
Camilla |
The divorce of Morten and Camilla was in 1998.
|
Camilla recorded also an
album with the titel
First breathe (1997)
and worked as a
model.
|
| Morten`s sweetheart for a
longer time was Anne Mette Undlien. They got a daugther, Henny, in february
2003. |
Morten Harket & Anne Mette Undlien |
Since 1993 Morten is also successful as
an solosinger.
The two albums in norwegian called Poetenes
Evangelium (1993) and Vogts Villa(1996) - the first and the third
album of Morten - are only avaible in Norway. The second album which is in
english and called Wild Seed (1995) was also published in other
countries.
From november 1995 until february 1997 Morten was on tour
with his two albums Wild Seed and Vogts Villa across Norway (f.e.
in Oslo, Bergen, Skien, Stavanger, Alesund, Kristianssand, Trondheim,
Sandefjord, Drammen) und has given in 1996 a concert (only for the press) in
London, Great Britain und a concert at the White Nights festival in St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Some songs of Morten are also on
different soundtracks (Coneheads, 1993 ; Sophie's world, 1988)
and on other albums. Watch also: Morten's
songs.
Morten had a co-operation with
Gulli Briem. On the album Earth Affair
- Chapter One (2004) Morten sings the song Gildas Prayer.
Besides
Morten also worked on a new solo album. The fourth solo album (it is the second
solo album in english) Letter from Egypt came out in may 2008 in Norway,
United Kingdom and Germany. On the norwegian version of the album is the song
Shooting Star which Morten performed at the solo concerts in Oslo
(Rockefeller) and London (Royal Albert Hall) between the 21 - 24 may 2008. On
the german version of the album is the song Slanted floor. The singles
from the solo album are Movies (only available in Norway) and
Darkspace (only available in Germany).
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