Lindy Fay Hella

Lindy-Fay Hella (born in 1975) is a Norwegian singer, musician and composer, known as a member of Wardruna and Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne. She played electronic music before becoming a founding member of Wardruna, which plays eclectic music influenced by runes. Her singing features prominently in Wardruna's Runaljod album trilogy. Hella released an electronic pop solo album in 2019. She released two further solo albums under the name Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne.

Early life Lindy-Fay Hella was born in 1975 and grew up on the island of Radøy close to Bergen in Norway. As a teenager, she sang in a band influenced by punk and grunge music. She took singing lessons both in classical European techniques and in various folk music traditions, including joik and Eastern European and African styles. She collaborated with Norwegian music acts of different genres. In the early 2000s, she and Arne Sandvoll founded the electronic music duo Ullan Gensa, which released tracks on the Internet and performed a few concerts in Norway.

Wardruna The multi-instrumentalist Einar Selvik, who began to develop the eclectic ambient music group Wardruna in 2002, had seen one of Ullan Gensa's shows and approached Hella. She is featured prominently on the group's first three albums, the Runaljod trilogy, released in 2009–2016.

For her second album, Hella teamed up with the musicians Roy Ole Førland, Ingolf Hella Torgersen and Sondre Veland and fashioned her project as Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne. The album Hildring was released by By Norse on 26 November, 2021. The music is inspired by rural locations outside Bergen and revolves around a wondrous view of the natural world and it elements. The tracks "Hildring" and "The Lake" were released with music videos. Laura McCarthy of Distorted Sound wrote that the album combines groundedness in the natural world with an appeal to the mystical, and a will to be both in the past and the future.

A third album, Islet, was released by By Norse in 2024.

Whispering Void In 2024, Hella launched the group Whispering Void, whose other members are Gaahl on vocals, Ronny "Valgard" Stavestrand on guitar and Iver Sandøy on drums and bass. Signed by Prophecy Productions, it was presented as a supergroup. The debut single "Vi finnes" was released on 23 July 2024. The album At the Sound of the Heart was released on 18 October the same year.

Selected discography With Wardruna Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga (2009) Runaljod – Yggdrasil (2013) Runaljod – Ragnarok (2016) Kvitravn (2021) Birna (2025)

Solo Seafarer (2019) Hildring (2021) – as Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne Islet (2024) – as Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne

With Whispering Void At the Sound of the Heart (2024)