Helén Eriksen

Helén Eriksen (born 19 October 1971 in Dale, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and vocals), songwriter and music arranger.

Career In the period 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the Bergen-based pop group Animal Farm. until in 2000 she released the album City Dust on the Norwegian label Curling Legs. City Dust was recorded with Jørgen Træen as producer and was a cleaner jazz album than her first and second. Her fourth album, Small Hall Classic, was released in 2006 with produced by Kato Ådland and Hans Petter Gundersen as producers, also known as "The Sensible Twins". She is the first and only Norwegian artist that have released two albums on Blue Note Records.

Eriksen has created her own distinctive style, and has participated as a guest artist on numerous albums, for artists like DumDum Boys, Pogo Pops, Sondre Lerche, Tommy Tee, Son of Light, and BLee. She collaborated in 1999 with jazz legend and saxophonist Alf Kjellman.

Honors 1996: Spellemannprisen in the class Newcomer for the album Standards

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums 1996: Standards (Blue Note) 1998: Lovevirgin (Blue Note) 2000: City Dust (Curling Legs) 2006: Small Hall Classic (New Records)

Collaborations Within Disorient 1996: Terra Morte (Shrike Records)

With DumDum Boys, 1998: Totem (Oh Yeah!)

With Sondre Lerche 2001: Faces Down (Virgin Records)

Within The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band 2009: Smorgasbord (Tinnitus Recordings)