KEiiNO

KEiiNO
KEiiNO at the street festival for Cologne Pride
General information
origin	Oslo , Norway
Genre (s)	Pop , Joik , Electronic Pop Music , EDM
founding	2018
Website	www.keiino.com
Current occupation
singing	Alexandra Rotan
singing	Tom Hugo
Yoik	Fred Buljo

Chart placements (preliminary) Explanation of the data

Albums

Octa   NO 30th 21/2020 (...  where.)

Singles

Spirit in the Sky   NO 1  platinum 10/2019 (22 weeks)   AT 61 05/31/2019 (1 week)   CH 7th 05/26/2019 (2 weeks)   UK 61 05/30/2019 (1 week)

KEiiNO is a Norwegian band . She represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 .

history

The band itself was founded in Oslo in August 2018 for the Melodi Grand Prix 2019 . Its members are the joik singer and rapper Fred Buljo, the singer Alexandra Rotan and the singer Tom Hugo Hermansen. None of the band members knew each other before. The initiator of the band was Hermansen, who wanted to write a song about equality with his husband Alex Olsson and was looking for a Sami singer. Rotan was later contacted as they still needed a female singer for the song.

The name of the band was derived from Fred Buljo's hometown of Kautokeino . The part of the name "-keino" stands for the North Sami word for "way". According to Buljo, the way that brought the members together should be expressed in the band name.

The group won the Norwegian ESC preliminary decision MGP 2019 on March 2, 2019 with their song Spirit in the Sky , representing Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv , Israel . Her song was inspired by the historical struggle for equality regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and identity. It was written by the group members themselves, Henrik Tala from Finland and Alex Olsson. It combines pop , yoik , electronic pop music and EDM .

You achieved sixth place in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest as the winner of the televote.

At the Sami Music Awards in February 2020, they won prizes in two categories. The group will release their debut album on March 27, 2020.

Members

Tom Hugo Hermansen (born October 27, 1979 ) is a singer and songwriter from Kristiansand . He already competed as a solo artist at the Melodi Grand Prix in 2013 and 2018 , where he did not make it to another round. He is married to the songwriter Alex Olsson.

Fred-René Øvergård Buljo (born February 6, 1988 ) is a Sami musician , joiker and producer from Kautokeino . He is a member of the Norwegian-Sami rap duo Duolva Duottar , with whom he won the Norwegian counterpart to the talent show Das Supertalent in 2008. From 2016 to 2017 he also sat as a member of the Árja party in the Sameting , the parliament of the Sami minority in Norway.

Alexandra Rotan (born June 29, 1996 ) is a singer from Råholt , Viken . In 2017 she was a singer on Alan Walker's European tour. Like Hermansen, Rotan competed at the Melodi Grand Prix 2018 together with Stella Mwangi and came in third.

Awards

• 2020: Sami Music Awards (Producer of the Year)
• 2020: Sami Music Awards (Open Class)

Discography

Studio albums

• 2020: Octa

Singles

• 2019: Spirit in the Sky
• 2019: Shallow (Cover)
• 2019: Only Teardrops (Acoustic Cover)
• 2019: Praying
• 2019: Vill ha dig (Cover)
• 2019: Dancing in the Smoke
• 2019: Storbyjul (Cover)
• 2020: Colors
• 2020: Black Leather (feat.Charlotte Qamaniq)
• 2020: Would I Lie (& Electric Fields)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: NO / AT / Switzerland / UK
2. ↑ Awards: NO
3. ↑ Presentasjon av årets MGP deltakere 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b} About & Contact. (No longer available online.) In: keiino.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019 ; accessed on March 4, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ TV 2 AS: Dette betyr joiken i Melodi Grand Prix-vinnerlåten. Retrieved March 7, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
6. ↑ Louise LaFleur: KEiiNO is Norway's choice for Tel Aviv! In: eurovision.tv. March 2, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Jon Marius Hyttebakk: Her er artistene i MGP 2019. In: nrk.no. January 25, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 (Norwegian). 
8. ↑ NDR: ESC 2019: Results, placements and points. Retrieved May 19, 2019 . 
9. ↑ EBU issues statement on Eurovision 2019 Grand Final jury result. May 22, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Kolbjørn Norvang: Disse priser vant under Sami Music Awards. February 8, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
11. ↑ Fred Rene Øvergård Buljo. In: sametinget.no. Retrieved March 7, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Turnerte with Alan Walker - nå er Alexandra Rotan (21) clear for MGP. Retrieved March 7, 2019 (Norwegian). 

Web links

Commons : Keiino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website