Venke Knutson

1978年10月20號，Venke Knutson Liodden出生于一個聲名顯赫的音樂世家。她有兩個姐姐，Tone和Hege。Venke在Birkeland的一個小村莊里長大成人。原先她并不經(jīng)常唱歌，但是她寫了很多詩歌。她有一副高調(diào)空靈的好嗓子，有時聽上去讓人感覺實在是太高了…童年時代的Venke最大的愛好就是傍晚十分躺在草叢里看天上的繁星。她喜歡聽父親講關于星星的名字和歷史�，F(xiàn)在Venke仍然喜歡躺在天空下閑適的進入夢鄉(xiāng)。獵戶星座腰帶上方左邊的那顆星是Venke最喜歡的星星。它點亮了Venke 10月份的生日。她的父親是當?shù)貥逢牭囊晃恢鞴�，這支樂隊由她的祖父創(chuàng)辦。除了在樂隊中擔任鼓手，Venke還擔任不同的和聲，演奏鋼琴。
初中畢業(yè)后，Venke一家移居到了美國德州休斯頓。她曾經(jīng)在那里生活過，但是之后她太小以至于不能照料自己的生活。受兩位姐姐的啟發(fā)，當她們搬回挪威Venke申請了了當?shù)貙W校的聲樂專業(yè)。在沒有任何試唱的情況下她就被錄取了，自她在德州時就沒有正式唱過�！靶疫\對我來說很寶貴”Venke這樣說。她夢想成為一名藝術家。但是她仍然堅持先做一個普通人，然后做藝術家。
在1998年秋天Venke在奧斯陸的教師學會開始自己的工作生涯。她與Dan Sundhordvik一起共事。Venke在多支樂隊里擔任歌手，當S.P.O.O.N（主唱是Erik Faber）贏得了99年挪威搖滾冠軍的時候，她還在舞臺上為他們伴唱。2001年，她與Svenn Liodden結(jié)婚，并且她還講述了她與男友相遇的甜蜜經(jīng)歷：“當我17歲準備申請當?shù)貙W校的聲樂專業(yè)時，我與一幫去丹麥游艇的男孩同行，他們演奏關于"Operasjon Dagsverk"的爵士樂。我不會唱爵士，而且從來沒用麥克唱過歌。但是當我發(fā)現(xiàn)其中的呢個鼓手是如此可愛的時候我就一直尾隨他們。所以我在丹麥游艇上第一次開唱，而那個鼓手不久后就成了我的丈夫�！�03年春季，Venke在經(jīng)理人Jan Fredrik Karlsen（他還是偶像節(jié)目的評委）的幫助下接到了一份Universal唱片的合同。Venke講述了她與偶像節(jié)目的關系：“我完全沉溺于其中了。尤其是去年，我真的是相當關注。但不幸的是今年我沒有太多看電視，但我試著用最多的精力去關注這檔節(jié)目。但我實在是不明白為什么人們會有這么大的勇氣來表演。我不敢冒這個險。如果我對規(guī)則有什么建議的話，我希望把最低年齡限制從16歲提高到18歲。我想看到所有的評論家都把矛頭指向像Sandra Lyng Haugen一樣年輕天真的16歲女孩身上確實是很可怕的事情�！薄八�以我給Sandra打了電話，告訴她不要介意別人說的，要繼續(xù)努力。此外我還要感謝她唱的"Panic"。很好聽！”
6月她的單曲"Panic"推出，從那個夏天到04年2月這首歌席卷了樂壇。Panic出現(xiàn)在了多種精選集里，并且在"VG-lista"獲得了nr.10的佳績。接下來的3月份，"Scared"問世，7月份"Scared"出現(xiàn)在唱片行的貨架上�，F(xiàn)在Venke完成了她的教師學業(yè)，并且成為了奧斯陸B(tài)ryn學校3A班的教師。她的學生看到自己的老師出現(xiàn)在電視上都嚇壞了，害怕老師換工作�！八麄儾⒉煌耆�明白他們的老師在電視上做什么，但最少我開始出現(xiàn)在少兒頻道上…她還沒有放棄教師這份工作的打算：“24個美麗的孩子每天都會在這見到我”。不管我的專輯賣的怎么樣�！八麄兌颊J為自己在早上一起的合唱唱的很好”，Venke微笑著說。
Venke Knutson (born 20.October 1978) She grew up in a small village, Birkeland. She didn’t sing that often, but she proclaimed a lot of poetry. She had a high and clear voice. Sometimes a little too high… Venke’s favourite hobby as a little girl was to lie in the grass in the evening and look at the stars. She liked to listen to her father telling her about the names of the stars, and the history. Venke still likes to dream away with the sky as a ceiling.
The star on the top to the left in Orion’s Belt is Venke’s favourite star. It lights the strongest in October around Venke’s birthday.
Her father was a director at the local band, that her grandfather founded. In addition to playing drums in the band, Venke sang in several choirs and played the piano. After Venke graduated from Junior High School, her family moved to Houston, Texas, in USA. she had lived there before, but then she was too young to see and do so much. Inspired by her two older sisters, Venke applied to the music line at Vågsbygd School when the family returned to Norway. She was accepted without a song audition since she still was in Texas. “Luck” says Venke. Venke dreamed of being an artist. But she insists still to that she is a person first, then an artist.
In the fall 1998 Venke started at the teachers academy in Oslo, and started to work with Dan Sundhordvik. Venke sang for several bands, and when the group S.P.O.O.N, with lead singer Erik Faber won the Norwegian Championship in Rock in 1999, she was on the stage as a backup singer.