Biography
Hailing from Norway, Marie Munroe brings a soulful voice shaped by jazz training to her recordings, which fuse rock with electronic pop in refined proportions. She entered the world as Hilde Marie Kjersem in Aselund, Norway, in 1981 and spent her childhood in a household filled with music before joining local rock bands as a teenager. Following secondary school she pursued jazz studies at Norges Musikkhøgskole, where guitarist Jon Eberson became her mentor. Once her coursework ended, she joined the Tub Quartet for its 2004 debut release Red Shoes Diary and went on to other jazz-oriented efforts that included further sessions with Eberson plus collaborations with rootsy singer/songwriter Christer Knutsen. Still recording as Kjersem, she issued her first solo album, A Killer for That Ache, on Rune Grammofon in 2008; the project emerged after a stretch of personal reevaluation that included the close of a difficult first marriage and a deliberate shift in artistic focus, revealing her move from jazz toward a more layered pop approach. Three years afterward came her second album, Let's Let Go, with If We Make It to the Future arriving in 2013. Around that period Hilde Marie Kjersem chose the stage name Marie Munroe, a decision that broadened her range of artistic options. She followed with the 2015 single "Like a Drumbeat," an '80s-style synth-pop track, and prepared her fourth studio album, Under My Skin, produced by Roar Nilsen, for a 2016 release.
Albums
Singles
