Trine Rein
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Trine Rein is a Norwegian-American singer, who belongs to the exclusive group of Norwegian artists who have sold more than a million records. Trine was born in San Francisco in 1970, and therefore has both US and Norwegian citizenship
.
February 1994, her album was soon a hit in Japan
as well. At one time she topped 16 different Japanese radio station charts simultaneously. Due to this immense popularity and interest on the Japanese isles, almost two thirds of the more than 600,000 albums sold of her first album, was bought by Japanese fans alone.
Trine has released two successful singles. The first came with her debut album, called "Just Missed The Train", and has become Trine's trademark
song, exposing her great singing ability. The song has later been covered by child star actress Danielle Brisebois
(who wrote the song with Scott Cutler
), Estonian Eurovision participant Maarja-Liis Ilus
, American Idol
winner Kelly Clarkson
, and a pre-American Idol Carly Hennessy (a.k.a. Carly Smithson), among others.
, which was a new market for Trine. The album went straight to the number one spot of the Norwegian album chart in its first week of release. Again a popular single was released in 1996, this time her cover
of the alternative rock
band Ednaswap
's song Torn
, which later, in 1997 got its worldwide fame with the Natalie Imbruglia
cover, with one of the most broadcast music videos of that time on music channel MTV
.
where she had a variety of odd jobs, including being a limo driver.
She finally moved back to Norway in 2004 and decided to make a comeback to the music scene. She managed two projects simultaneously; firstly she starred in a summer show with three singing actors, amongst them Sturla Berg Johansen, who also became her boyfriend
. Besides, she also released her first compilation CD, entitled The Very Best of Trine Rein.
, the so-called Melodi Grand Prix
. Trine decided to leave all disputed comments to the past and figured the time was finally right when she was asked by the Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) to participate in 2006.
Friday night on January 13, 2006, Trine entered the stage in Alta
to become the first artist to illuminate the northern-most national Eurovision selection in the history of the European contest, and the televoters would send her to Oslo Spektrum and the final of Melodi Grand Prix 2006
. Trine's composition, Here For The Show, was written by three experienced Swedes and had loads of similarities with Robbie Williams
' firework of a song, "Let Me Entertain You
", which the authors also admitted had been their sole inspiration. The song did not qualify for the international finals though.
She has recorded "Time After Time
" with the Danish singer Flemming "Bamse" Jørgensen. Flemming "Bamse" Jørgensen died at New Year 2010/2011 of a heart attack.
Citizenship
Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
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Successful debut
Trine Rein released her first solo album in 1993, Finders, Keepers. It peaked at the top of the Norwegian album chart for no less than five weeks. http://lista.vg.no/album_info.php?AlbumOp=show&albumId=6494&albumtype=album&albumtype_id=1 But as she was almost unknown before the release, it took her 14 weeks - more than three months - to finally have the most popular album in Norway. And due to the extensive foreign press coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in LillehammerLillehammer
is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...
February 1994, her album was soon a hit in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
as well. At one time she topped 16 different Japanese radio station charts simultaneously. Due to this immense popularity and interest on the Japanese isles, almost two thirds of the more than 600,000 albums sold of her first album, was bought by Japanese fans alone.
Trine has released two successful singles. The first came with her debut album, called "Just Missed The Train", and has become Trine's trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
song, exposing her great singing ability. The song has later been covered by child star actress Danielle Brisebois
Danielle Brisebois
Danielle Anne Brisebois is an American actress, producer, songwriter and singer. In the 1990s she recorded two solo albums, Arrive All Over You and Portable Life, and was a member of the New Radicals...
(who wrote the song with Scott Cutler
Scott Cutler
Scott M. Cutler is an American musician and music producer.-Personal life:He recently had his 1st son "Lane" and his 2nd son "Duke" with his wife Meredith Morton.-Career:...
), Estonian Eurovision participant Maarja-Liis Ilus
Maarja-Liis Ilus
Maarja-Liis Ilus, sometimes better known by her performing name Maarja is a pop musician. Maarja has achieved some chart success in a number of countries across Europe and Asia...
, American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
winner Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later become the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.In 2003,...
, and a pre-American Idol Carly Hennessy (a.k.a. Carly Smithson), among others.
Declining sales
Her runner-up album came in 1996, called Beneath My Skin, and also enjoyed some success, though "only" selling about half the number of copies as her debut album did. More than 300,000 copies were sold in Norway, Japan and DenmarkDenmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, which was a new market for Trine. The album went straight to the number one spot of the Norwegian album chart in its first week of release. Again a popular single was released in 1996, this time her cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of the 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 Ednaswap
Ednaswap
Ednaswap was an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, United States, that existed between 1993 and 1998.Over a span of five years, the band released four major label records on East West, Elektra Records and Island Records...
's song Torn
Torn (Ednaswap song)
"Torn" is a song by the band Ednaswap from their debut album Ednaswap . It was their second single from that album, after "Glow". "Torn" was written by Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, and Phil Thornalley during a demo session in 1993 before Ednaswap was formed. The lyrics were written by Preven....
, which later, in 1997 got its worldwide fame with the Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit,...
cover, with one of the most broadcast music videos of that time on music channel MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
.
Moving abroad
Her third album To Find The Truth was released in 1998, and sold about 100 000 copies. http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/07/19/403403.html Shortly afterwards, Trine decided she had got enough of the celebrity life, and searched anonymous refugee existence abroad for a few years. In 2000 Trine settled permanently in San Francisco and Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
where she had a variety of odd jobs, including being a limo driver.
She finally moved back to Norway in 2004 and decided to make a comeback to the music scene. She managed two projects simultaneously; firstly she starred in a summer show with three singing actors, amongst them Sturla Berg Johansen, who also became her boyfriend
Boyfriend
A boyfriend is a person's regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship, although normally not in long-term committed relationships, where other titles A boyfriend is a person's regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship, although normally not in long-term committed...
. Besides, she also released her first compilation CD, entitled The Very Best of Trine Rein.
Eurovision ambitions
Trine Rein years ago stated that she would never participate in the Norwegian final and selection method for the Eurovision Song ContestEurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
, the so-called Melodi Grand Prix
Melodi Grand Prix
Melodi Grand Prix is an annual music competition organised by Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1960.The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and...
. Trine decided to leave all disputed comments to the past and figured the time was finally right when she was asked by the Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) to participate in 2006.
Friday night on January 13, 2006, Trine entered the stage in Alta
Alta, Norway
-Birdlife:For those interested in bird watching, the river outlet, known locally as Altaosen is well worth a visit. This tidal area is used as a stopover for many wetland species.-Transportation:...
to become the first artist to illuminate the northern-most national Eurovision selection in the history of the European contest, and the televoters would send her to Oslo Spektrum and the final of Melodi Grand Prix 2006
Melodi Grand Prix 2006
Melodi Grand Prix 2006 is the television show in which the Norwegian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was chosen....
. Trine's composition, Here For The Show, was written by three experienced Swedes and had loads of similarities with Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...
' firework of a song, "Let Me Entertain You
Let Me Entertain You (Robbie Williams song)
"Let Me Entertain You" is a song written by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers. Released as the fifth and last single from Williams' debut album, Life Thru A Lens. It has no connection to the songs by Queen or Shakespears Sister carrying the same title. In March 1998, the track became a top three hit...
", which the authors also admitted had been their sole inspiration. The song did not qualify for the international finals though.
She has recorded "Time After Time
Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song)
"Time After Time" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the second single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks...
" with the Danish singer Flemming "Bamse" Jørgensen. Flemming "Bamse" Jørgensen died at New Year 2010/2011 of a heart attack.
New album and single in 2010
On May 18, 2010, Trine premiered her first single in twelve years titled I found love on her official website, and it became available for digital purchase over iTunes on May 24; the new album (her 4th record to date ) is called Seeds of Joy and the tentative release date is September 20, 2010 for Norway.Singles
- "Just Missed The Train" (1993) #4 in Norway
- "Stay With Me Baby" (1994)
- "Torn" (1996) #10 in Norway
- "Do You Really Wanna Leave Me This Way" (1996)
- "The State I'm In" (1996)
- "Never Far Away" (1996)
- "World Without You" (1998)
- "Stars And Angels" (1998)
- "I found love" (2010)
Albums
- Finders, Keepers (1993) #1 in Norway
- Beneath My Skin (1996) #1 in Norway
- To Find The Truth (1998) #22 in Norway
- Seeds of joy (20 September 2010) #19 in Norway