Occupation(s) saxophonist Name Kristian Bergheim Labels Gemini Records | Years active 1944–1990 Record label Gemini Records | |
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Associated acts Rowland Greenberg, Karl Otto Hoff, Totti Bergh Similar People Rowland Greenberg, Bjarne Nerem, Einar Iversen, Ole Jacob Hansen, Laila Dalseth | ||
Kristian Bergheim (6 June 1926 in Bærum – 30 May 2010) was a noted saxophonist, considered one of the few in Norway of international caliber.
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Biography
Bergheim was raised in Asker and in Stabekk in the neighboring municipality Bærum, where he lived most of his life. He played in a number of bands and orchestras before devoting his professional life to music, in 1948. He was repeatedly named best Norwegian saxophonist when such contests were common in the 1950s and 1960s.
He led his own bands and orchestras starting in 1960, focusing mostly on swing. He won the highest Norwegian jazz award, Buddyprisen, in 1978 and the Gammleng-prisen in 1991. Because of a lung ailment, he retired in 1990.
Bergheim was for some time married to noted singer and actress Anita Thallaug.