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Released: Jan 1, 2010
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General Info

  • Genre: R&B / Rock

    Location Velg region., No

    Profile Views: 138831

    Last Login: 1/21/2012

    Member Since 11/21/2006

    Record Label Fabuloso Records / Sonet

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Grande (Kjetil Grande), Oslo, Norway, is making a name for himself after releasing his second solo album "You Are The Night". Norwegian critics are overwhelmed - some of them even claiming "You Are The Night" to be the best Norwegian album of 2010. .... Not bad for an artist who experienced the pressure of following up his "Norwegian Grammy" award winning debut album "Uppers, Downers, Screamers & Howlers". His debut album was influenced by the black American music of the first half of the 2oth century. Blues, Soul, R&B, Black Garage rock, made up the backbone in Grande..s compositions, with Grande..s guitar in the middle. .... On "You Are The Night" Grande dives into a musical universe of ballrooms, big bands, noir films, romantic soundtracks, light & shades, gloom & drama: The majestic and dangerous sound of the white American music of the same period. .... Grande says: "You Are The Night" is the soundtrack to my 2009, a year I devoted to capture the essence of the night, whether it is a gloomy & dark night, or an all night wild party. For me no music is more dramatic - and if you will schizophrenic - when it comes to light and shade, than white American music from the period 1930-1960. "The Great American Songbook" is not all about the "happy go lucky life in the fast lane", as it has been presented the last years... This album is a tribute to the dramatic and heavy side of The Great American Songbook. .... In "You Are The Night" you will find a little bit of the 1930s crazyness, the romantic but gloomy 40s, the exploring 50s and the sexy and daring 60s. But Grande maintains that he is NO retro artist. He is a young man living in the year of 2010, absorbing the music of the day, even though the music of yesterdays America has been his true love since his teenage days. After years of backing some of the biggest pop-rock artists of Norway, even backing American blues legends, since he was 18, Grande will be touring with his own band both nationally and internationally. .... ..Grande - We Did It All...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ......Add to My Profile.. | ..More Videos.. ........ .. ............Myspace Layouts.. - ..Myspace Editor.. - ..Hot Comments.. - ..Image Hosting....
  • Members

    BOOKING:Kjetil Grande, kjetilgrande (at) hotmail.no, +47 90 70 08 45.. MANAGEMENT: Erik Landet, erik (at) nomanagement.no or + 47 97 00 62 08
  • Influences

    THE CRAZY & PSYCHEDELIC 1930..S .... .... THE ROMANTIC & GLOOMY 1940..S .... .... THE EXPLORING 1950..S .... .... THE SEXY & DARING 1960..S .... .... THE HAIRY 1970..S .... .... & THE MUSIC APPETITE OF THE NEW CENTURY....
  • Sounds Like

    Buy "Uppers, Downers, Screamers & Howlers" here: .... .. .... .... .......... .... ....Grande..............Promotér din side også....

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