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Genres
  
Pop

Genre
  
Pop music

Years active
  
1989–present

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Origin
  
Kristiansand, Norway (1989)

Members
  
Anne Marie Almedal, Erik Honoré

Albums
  
Window Tree, The Landing, Colours, Little Lies, Velvet Belly, Lucia

Record labels
  
BMG Rights Management, BMG

Similar
  
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Velvet Belly is a Norwegian pop band from Kristiansand.

Contents

Biography

The band started as a trio in 1989, and was joined by vocalist Anne Marie Almedal the following year. Her vocal was wrapped in a vague and melancholy soundscape dominated by synthesizers, programming and sampling to the band's regular producer Erik Honoré. They released two albums before they got a better reception with their third album Window Tree in 1994. The album landed them a contract with BMG which re-released the album with a new cover with Europe as a market.

Vidar Ersfjord, playing the keyboard joined the band for the album Lucia which was released in 1997, this album was awarded the Norwegian Spellemannprisen in the category for best pop group. The band has cooperated with the musician and songwriter Erik Honoré, and he has been the producer for all their albums.

Honors

  • 1997: Spellemannprisen in the category Pop band for the album Lucia

    • Band members

  • Kay Rune Rasmussen drums, piano
  • Tor Henning Leh guitar
  • Pål Aanensen bass-guitar,piano
  • Anne Marie Almedal vocals
  • Vidar Ersfjord keyboard

    • Discography

  • Colours (dBut, 1992) (released again with new cover by BMG in 1995)
  • Little Lies (dBut, 1993)
  • Window Tree (dBut, 1994, and a new release on BMG, 1995)
  • The Landing (BMG, 1996)
  • Lucia (BMG, 1997) (European and Japanese releases, with different covers; Japanese release includes The Man With the Child in His Eyes, a cover of the Kate Bush song)
  • Velvet Belly (Playground, 2003) double-album

    • Songs

    Tree at My WindowWindow Tree · 1995
    Drowning SunThe Landing · 2014
    Fast and Far AwayLucia · 2000

    References

    Velvet Belly Wikipedia
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