Anita Hegerland

Anita Hegerland (born 3 March 1961) is a Norwegian singer, most known for her childhood career in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and subsequent vocal contributions to Mike Oldfield's work, among others.

She is Norway's biggest selling solo artist and one of Norway's best-selling female artists in history. In 1971, she was, along with Michael Jackson, one of the world's best-selling child singers. At age 10, she became Norway's first artist to sell over a million copies. She is one of the best-selling solo singers in Norway, with sales of more than 7 million albums and singles. Her songs have been released on nearly 30 million albums worldwide, most of which are with Roy Black and Mike Oldfield. She has participated in Melodi Grand Prix in 1971 (""), 1972 ("Happy Hippie"), 1983 (""), and in 2009 ("Party"). She came in as number four in 1971 and number three in 1972.

Hegerland had the biggest hit in Germany of any Norwegian artist ever with Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein, in front of Lene Nystrøm (Aqua), Marit Larsen, Madcon, and A-ha.

For more than 20 years she had the record in Sweden as the singer who was the longest on Svensktoppen, the main music charts.

Biography Hegerland was born in Sandefjord, and was discovered at the age of 8 by Fredrik Friis during a Christmas show where she was performing. Hegerland's musical career took off in 1970 with "" , performed in Swedish in the Scandinavian countries. It spent 22 weeks on Norway's singles chart, with three weeks at #1, and the song was also a #1 hit in Sweden during fives weeks. In 1971 she released a single with German artist Roy Black; "" in German-speaking countries. The song was recorded both with German and Norwegian vocals. It sold over 2 million copies (of which more than 1.3 million came from Germany),

Until recently, she lived on Nesøya island near Oslo with her partner, Jock Loveband. In 1999, their daughter Kaja was born.

Hegerland released a new album called Starfish in 2011, a pop/rock album produced by Ronni Le Tekrø (TNT). This album was #1 for 39 weeks between November 2011 and November 2012, on Meteli.net, a Finnish downloading site.

Awards and nominations At nine years old in 1970 she became the youngest person to ever appear in the Swedish Svensktoppen. She has appeared on Billboard’s top ten in several countries, including Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and West Germany. She was awarded the Norwegian gold record award for "" (1970), performed in Swedish, which reached top rankings on VG-lista in Norway, spent five weeks at number one on the Swedish best selling chart Kvällstoppen and was also number one at the Swedish Svensktoppen in Sweden. Another song, "", appeared on VG-lista for 30 weeks in 1972.

Discography

She also appears on a number of other albums, including a number of albums with Mike Oldfield such as Islands (1987), Earth Moving (1989) and Heaven's Open (1991). She is a vocalist on Oldfield's single "Pictures in the Dark", which reached 50th in the United Kingdom in 1985. ) 1985: Deilig er fjorden! – Pia Svahberg 1987: Turnaround – Buff 1988: Mike Oldfield: North Point – Anita 2001: Josefine i Gulrotparken