Terje Tysland

A Norwegian rock singer and songwriter named Terje Tysland has sustained a lengthy career that stretches across many decades and has yielded an extensive catalog of full-length albums, numerous entries reaching the Top Ten in his native country. Much like fellow Norwegian singer and songwriter Åge Aleksandersen, he launched his solo path in the late 1970s after first earning recognition as a member of Prudence, the band that helped establish the Norwegian rock idiom known as trønderrock. Born April 14, 1951, in Namsos, Norway, Tysland began recording with Prudence, whose lineup featured Åge Aleksandersen on guitar, Per Erik Wallum on flute, Johan Tangen on mandolin, Kjell Ove Riseth on bass, and Kaare Skevik, Jr. on drums, alongside Tysland handling vocals and guitar. He entered the group in 1970 and appears on every studio album the band issued: Tomorrow May Be Vanished (1972), Drunk and Happy (1973), No. 3 (1974), and Takk Te Dokk (1975), the last of which received a Spellemannprisen for Pop Album of the Year. Prudence disbanded in 1975 and closed its run with the double-length live album 11/12-75 (1976), after which Tysland and Aleksandersen each pursued thriving solo careers as singer/songwriters. Tysland issued his first solo album, Stakkars Klovn, in 1977 and continued to release new material at roughly two-year intervals through the end of the century and well into the next. Among his strongest-selling titles are Til Moder Jord (1979), Frekk og Fredelig (1985), Gutta På By'n (1987), Kainn Æ Få Lov? (1988), Værra Me Mæ Hjæm (1990), For Et Mas (1996), 25 År Med Gitter og Stas (2002), Det Go'e Liv (2004), and Lidderli Gla (2009), every one of which entered the Top Ten of the Norwegian albums chart.