Emil Nikolaisen is a musician and producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 from Norway

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...

. He is frontman, bandleader, songwriter, guitarist & singer of the well-known Norwegian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Serena-Maneesh

Serena-Maneesh

Serena-Maneesh is an alternative rock band from Oslo, Norway.- Significance of the Name:...

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Nikolaisen has previously appeared as a guitarist and songwriter in the indie band Royal, played the drums in Norwegian punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Silver as well as in the retro-pop orchestra The Loch Ness Mouse. He also has a past as guitarist in the metal band Extol

Extol

Extol is a Christian progressive extreme metal band from Bekkestua, Norway, that was formed in 1993. In 2007, they announced they were splitting up to work on separate projects. The band is known for playing a variety of different styles of metal which include progressive death metal, melodic death...

 and produced albums for Maria Solheim

Maria Solheim

Maria Solheim is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She signed her first record deal with the label Kirkelig Kulturverksted in 1999 at the age of 17, and her first album was released two years later. She frequently tours Norway and Germany...

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