Get to know Zuma, Cube, Anne, CRASH
Zuma – Always Always
The duo Zuma consist of Henrik Njaa and Alexander Stenerud. Zuma was formed already back in 1995, but it’s 2001 that stands as the breakthrough year. That year the album “Jumo” came out, and sold nearly 18 000 copies. Two years later the second album “Rainboy” was released. Zuma has also worked with producing for other artists, but in 2008 the participation in MGP, and a new album will be on their program. The song is written by Alexander Stenerud. With the song he attempts to procure the feeling of spring, as he experienced a spring night on his way home after a tour on the city. - The song came to me as a lightning. I didn’t have a Dictaphone, but that wasn’t necessary because the song was so catchy.
Cube – Would You Spend the Night With Me
The band Cube was formed in the summer 2007. The band-members had actually played together before in other band and the coverband FlashBack. The guys from Drammen have many talents. The singer Øystein Hellkås has won three internal championships in beerdrinking. Bass-player Jon Einar Hagen still has the bandrecord in waltz. Thomas Ustaheim on keyboard has won many rounds in bowling, while guitar player Jørgen Mandt Pettersen got most girls in the class at Junior high school. And the drummer was the first in his street who learned the multiplicationtable. Their common measure is to publish a CD, and win MGP. Cubes MGP-history started with a playing job on the same place as Wig Wam (Norway 2005). After the rumours Cube deliveranced Wig Wam with their pyro-show, and since that they’ve kept contact. The song “Would You Spend the Night With Me” is written by Åge Sten Nilsen, the lead singer in Wig Wam, and is about a guy who doesn’t has a way with women, and because of that he makes a strong desire to someone else than the one he is.
Anne Hvidsten – A Little More
Since she borrowed her mothers worn guitar, many songs has come by itself to Anne. For the money she got in her confirmation, she bought her first guitar. - The composer talent has always been inside me like something that bubbles and has to get a natural issue. Anne Hvidsten had big success with the song “Need To Know” that she sent a demo of to a bigger recording company and later signed her when she was 19 years old. In 2004 her debut album was released with the same title. The last years Anne has been writing many songs in her home studio, and now she is ready to take the step out on the stage again. - I’m looking forward as a child to be on stage in MGP, tells Anne, who is ready to give “A Little More”. The song “A Little More” is written by Anne Hvidsten herself, both the lyrics and the music. She wrote the song right after she met the man who today is her husband. It is about to be in love, living in the present, to throw away all inhibitions and to love life.
CRASH! - Get Up
CRASH! is the only one of last years MGP artists that performs again this year. That time they qualified directly to the final, and ended up on third place. Last years participation gave them the change to show up for the Norwegian people, and it also gave many great commissions and a lot of good experiences. The future plans for CRASH! is to play many concerts and make cool discs. Their debut disc has just been finished. Their song “Get Up” is about to take the possibilities when you have it. It’s written by the Wig Wam member Trond “Teeny” Holter, who also wrote Wig Wam’s “In my dreams”, that represented Norway in 2005. Holter picked up the band after they published an EP and went out on a mini-tour in 2005. He is the one who introduced the band for MGP 2007. CRASH! states Trond to be their music- adviser and is practically a part of the band.
Sven Garås – I’m In Love
Sven Garås comes from Mjøndalen. He has his studio where he writes and produces both commercials and other artists. As a DJ one of his remixes picked up bye the worldwide known DJ Tiesto. In February his debut album will be published. - I want to make out-turned pop music with directions and meaningful lyrics. So far he has got positive comments on the singles he published this autumn. - The coolest I’ve heard is when people tells they know themselves again in my music. I’m In Love is a decent powerballad written by Robin Nordahl (music) and Ingrid Nørsett (lyrics). It’s about the hard love, and that is a feeling most of us recognizes. - When I heared this song for the first time, I was immediately thinking that this was something I could have written by myself. The theme was not just well-known, but Sven thought that both the lyrics and the music fitted well to his own material.
Maria Haukaas Storeng – Hold On Be Strong
Maria Haukaas Storeng from Troms was spending parts of her adolescence in Oslo where she played the lead part both many musicals. Later she studied on the artist course on Bårdar Akademiet in Oslo. In 2004 she went to be well-known when she participated in the TV-show Idol. That autumn she gave up the single “Breathing” who sold to gold, and the winter after her debut album came out with the same title. In Kongsvinger she sings a contribution by the well-known Norwegian artist, Mira Craig. Maria is very glad for the cooperation, even if she doesn’t know Mira Craig personally. She hopes that this type of music will be something that she can work with in the future. Mira Craig has written both lyrics and the music in “Hold On Be Strong”. It was actually the first song Mira ever made. She was only fifth teen that time. - It is in a way words that are going to help a young girl who in way feels lonely. I feel that I wrote it to myself. I remember a feeling that it was someone else who said the words to me into my head, and then they just came out of my mouth, tells Mira Craig about the song.
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