Di Derre
Encyclopedia
Di Derre is a Norwegian
pop
/rock
band, founded in 1992
. They were awarded the Gammleng-prisen in 1996.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
/rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
band, founded in 1992
1992 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....
. They were awarded the Gammleng-prisen in 1996.
Band members
- Jo NesbøJo NesbøJo Nesbø is an Edgar Award nominated Norwegian author and musician. As of September 2008 more than one and a half million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway, and his work has been translated into over forty languages....
- vocals/guitar. - Knut NesbøKnut NesbøKnut Nesbø is a Norwegian sports reporter with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.He is also a former semi-professional footballer who played for Molde and Lyn in the 1980s, In 1990 he played nineteen league matches for low-level Stabæk IF.He was the guitarist of the Norwegian pop/rock band Di...
- vocals/guitar. - Espen Stenhammer - drums.
- Magnus Larsen - bass guitar.