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duo Ask Embla with Icelandic producer and songwriter Arnthor Birgisson.

Career

Wroldsen's career started solely as a recording artist, but soon turned to writing music for others. As a songwriter, she has had great success and is internationally considered one of the most sought after in her field. She has won several BMI/

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for her work, among BRIT award and Spellemannprisen nominations. Her songs have been used by the likes of

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, James Arthur,

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, Madison Beer and Tinie Tempah. Between 2013 and 2018, the publishing interest of Ina Wroldsen's catalog has been represented by Reverb Music/Reservoir Media Management. Since 2018, Warner Chappell Music have represented Ina's publishing interests. In recent years, Ina has also resumed her career as a recording artist. As part of Norwegian-Icelandic duo Ask Embla, together with Arnthor Birgisson. They released the album ''Northern Lights'' in 2013 in Norway. She has since continued her artist career under its own name. She released "Aliens (Her er jeg)" (2014), "Rebels" (2015) and " Lay It on Me" (2016). The latter was released as a collaboration with the Norwegian producer duo

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and climbed to No. 2 on the

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singles chart. In 2015,

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and

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chose to release Ina's song " How Deep Is Your Love" using her vocals. This was one of the year's most streamed/downloaded/played songs worldwide. In 2016, she was one of the judges in the Norwegian version of '' Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne''. She has been the featured vocalist on various worldwide acclaimed DJs' records, including

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, " Breathe" by Jax Jones and the Martin Solveig song " Places". In June 2017, she signed a record deal with Simon Cowell's Syco Music label. Soon after, on 27 October 2017, she released her single "

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", which was quite successful in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and thanks to it in 2019 she was nominated for Spellemannprisen for the "Song of the Year" award. In August 2018, she released in partnership with

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"Favela" with her own vocals and inspired from a documentary about Latin American women.

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

As main artist

As featured artist

Other songs

Credits

Singing-songwriting

Songwriting

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wroldsen, Ina Christine 1984 births Living people Musicians from Sandefjord Norwegian songwriters 21st-century Norwegian singers 21st-century Norwegian women singers