Kristin Asbjørnsen

Kristin Asbjørnsen (born 12 May 1971) is a Norwegian jazz singer and composer whose focus is on improvised music. She is known for musical projects like Dadafon including with Carl Haakon Waadeland, Krøyt, Kvitretten, and Nymark Collective among others.

Career Asbjørnsen was born in Lillehammer and educated at the Jazz Program at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music, Norwegian Academy of Music and the University of Oslo, Her style has its roots in the singer-songwriter tradition and includes elements from African music, World music, spirituals and jazz. The album has received a Platinum Disc and nomination for the Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Music Awards equiv. to Grammy). Asbjørnsen has featured on a number of album releases, as well as a series of tours and festival performances in Europe. In 2009 she won the Babel Med Mondomix Award.

She is a member of the bands Dadafon and Krøyt, and was also in the Kvitretten, who split in 2001. In 2000 she received the Gammleng-prisen in the class jazz. For the album The Night Shines Like the Day she received the Spellemannprisen 2009 in open class. Asbjørnsen together with the world-renowned a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo holding concerts in seven different townships in South Africa Back to eKasi, organized by, among others, Rikskonsertene.

Honors Spellemannprisen 1999 with Krøyt in open class for the album Low Edvard Prize 2000 for the composition Silent from the EP Body Electric 2005

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Collaborations Within Dadafon 1998: Coloured Moods (Rim Records) 2002: And I Can't Stand Still (Rim Records) 2002: Release Me (Via Music) 2002: Visitor (Via Music) 2004: Harbour (Universal Music/EmArcy Records) 2005: Lost Love Chords (Milan)

Within Krøyt 1997: Sub (Curling Legs) 1999: Low (Bergland Productions) 2001: Body Electric EP (Music Network Records) 2001: One Heart Is Too Small (Yonada Records)

Within Kvitretten 1996: Voices (Curling Legs) 1999: Everything Turns (Curling Legs) 2002: Kloden Er En Snurrebass Som Snurrer Oss (Curling Legs)

With other projects 2001: Smak Av Himmel, Spor Av Jord (Grappa Music), with various artists 2004: Seafarer's Song (EmArcy Records), with Ketil Bjørnstad 2008: Bessie Smith Revisited Live in Concert (Nymark Collective Records), with Nymark Collective 2009: Restored, Returned (ECM Records), within Tord Gustavsen Ensemble