Anita Hegerland, is a Norwegian singer known for her childhood career in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and subsequent vocal contributions to Mike Oldfield's work, among others. She is one of the best-sellingsolo singers in Norway, with sales of more than 7 million albums and singles. Her songs have been released on nearly 23 million albums worldwide. Hegerland had the biggest hit in Germany of any Norwegian artist ever, in front of Lene Nystrøm, Marit Larsen, Madcon, and A-ha. For more than 20 years she had the record in Sweden as the singer who was the longest on Svensktoppen, the main music charts.
Biography
Hegerland was discovered at age 8 by Fredrik Friis during a Christmas show where she was performing. Hegerland's musical career took off in 1970 with "Mitt sommarlov" in the Scandinavian countries. It spent 22 weeks on Norway's singles chart, with three weeks at #1, and the song was also a #1 hit in Sweden. In 1971 she released a single with German artistRoy Black; "Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein " in German-speaking countries. The song was recorded both with German and Norwegian vocals. It sold over 2 million copies, and spent 30 weeks on the singles chart in Norway. In total she had four different albums on the Norwegian chart as a child star. The last one was released in 1973. She participated in the Norwegian final, but did not win. She continued as a pop singer in Germany and Scandinavia for several years and then pursued an adult vocal career. She metBritish musician Mike Oldfield while performing on his non-album single "Pictures in the Dark" in 1985. She also performed the songs "The Time Has Come", "North Point" and "When The Night's On Fire" on Oldfield's 1987 album Islands, and two of his biggest hit songs: "Pictures In The Dark" and "Innocent", from his 1989 album Earth Moving. She has two children with Oldfield, Greta and Noah, and until recently lived on Nesøya island near Oslo with her partner, Jock Loveband. In 1999, their daughter Kaja was born. Hegerland released a new album called Starfish in 2011, a pop/rock album produced by Ronni Le Tekrø. This album was #1 for 39 weeks between November 2011 and November 2012, on Meteli.net, a Finnish downloading site.
