Live Maria Rye

Live Maria Roggen (2016)

Live Maria Roggen (born March 22, 1970 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian jazz singer , songwriter and composer.

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Roggen comes from a musical family; she is the older sister of the twin sisters Ane Carmen and Ida Roggen (from the Norwegian vocal group Pitsj ). She received violin and singing lessons at the secondary school in Oslo . Then she studied sociology and musicology at the University of Oslo and from 1995 to 1998 jazz at the Trøndelag Conservatory of Music .

Roggen first appeared in the Duo Tu'Ba in 1994 with tuba player Lars Andreas Haug . In 1997 she supported the founding of the band Wibutee , whose albums she also took part in, and from 1998 to 2004 she was the lead singer of the Norwegian jazz band Come Shine . Since 2004 she has been one of the singers and driving forces of the improvising vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices , for which she also composed. Since 2003 she has also performed with her live band ; In 2007 she released a solo record Circuit-Songs , which won the Spellemann Prize in the open class. In 2009 they founded the Norwegian-speaking duo Live / Lien with the pianist Helge Lien , which also sets texts by Norwegian poets to music; After the album Låvesalg (2011), You was released in 2017 . The album Apokaluptein was created in 2016 from a commissioned production for the Vossajazz Festival (with Eivind Lønning , Lene Grenager , Hilmar Jensson , Sondre Meisfjord and Audun Kleive ).

In addition, Roggen has sung with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Trondheimsolistene, Bugge Wesseltoft , Tom Steinar Lund and Trio de Janeiro, deLillos and Leieboerne and has been the backup singer of the Young Neils group since 1996 . In 2008 and 2009 she took part in four tribute concerts for Radka Toneff with Arild Andersen , Jon Eberson and Jon Christensen . From 2006 and 2009 she belonged to Atle Sponbergs and Frode Haltlis La Fuente and interpreted their tango and jazz compositions. She was also involved in the recordings of the children's albums Magiske Kroker & Hemmelighter (2008) and Go'natt (2009).

Roggen worked as a jazz and singing teacher at Sund Folkehøgskole, the Conservatory of Music in Agder and the Trøndelag Conservatory for Music in Trondheim. Since 2012 she has been teaching as professor for jazz singing at the Norwegian Academy of Music , where she was previously an associate professor .

Prizes and awards

With the group Come Shine she received the Spellemann Prize for Jazz in 2002 ; With her Circuit-Songs she won the Spellemann Prize in 2007 in the open class. In 2003 she was awarded the lavish musician award at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival . The following year she received the Gammleng Prize for Jazz. In 2016 she was honored with the Buddy Prize.

Web links

Commons : Live Maria Roggen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Rye, Live Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian jazz singer, songwriter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oslo

[1] Trondheim Voices

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[3] Meeting (Nordic Music)

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