Oh Land

Nanna Øland Fabricius trained as a teenager with the Royal Swedish Ballet, yet a fractured disc in her spine ended her dancing career for good and redirected her toward music. Raised outside Copenhagen, Denmark, by parents steeped in opera and classical composition, she nevertheless forged her own path, channeling dance-pop and R&B while completing a year of studies at the University of Electronic Composition. Performing as Oh Land, she crafted a style that blended elements reminiscent of Robyn, Feist, and Lily Allen. Her ballet background also shaped her early shows, which featured original choreography and dramatic staging. In 2008 she signed with a Danish label and issued her debut EP, Fauna. The following year brought an international contract with Epic. Throughout 2010 she collaborated with Dan Carey, Dave McCracken, and Pharrell Williams on her first full-length project. The single “Sun of a Gun” appeared late that year, and her self-titled album followed in March 2011. Wishbone, her second studio album, arrived in 2013. After its release she made her acting debut in the 2014 Danish western The Salvation. That November she issued her third album, Earth Sick, pledging a portion of its proceeds to Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic initiative. In 2016 she merged her ballet heritage with her music by composing Askepot, the score for a Cinderella production staged at the Tivoli Ballet Theatre. She self-released the opera Watermusic in 2018, then followed it in January 2019 with the single “Human Error.”