Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Background information on Oh Land

Background information on Oh Land

 

 Oh Land is a solo artist from Denmark, her original name is Nanna Oland Fabricius. She is the daughter of Bendt Fabricius an organist and Bodil Oland who is an opera singer.  She was born in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen on the 2nd may 1985.

Oh Land was originally a ballet dancer but due to an accident which resulted in a spinal fracture her dance career ended suddenly which kick-started her career in music.

Her first debut album was called Fauna and was released in her native country Denmark on the 10th November 2008 and was published by a Danish independent record company called Fake Diamond Records. Fauna wasn’t a hit or really that noticed around, however her follow up album titled Oh Land made up for that, as it reached 5th in the charts in Denmark and 184th in billboard 200 charts in US, the album also served as her debut in US. The album was released in US on the 15th march 2011. On the 7th of April 2011 she was given the brink of fame: music artist award in the ‘NextNowNext’ awards.

Oh Land is still a young artist as she is only in her late 20’s, and still got a bright future going for her, she has already toured with some famous people such as Katy Perry who is a well-known and successful artist.

The song that she was most popular for in the US was Son Of A Gun and it was White Lies which was one of her other hit singles and they were both from the album Oh Land.

 

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