View of Lysefjord in Os where Aurora was raisedĪurora Aksnes was born on 15 June 1996 in the Stavanger University Hospital in Stavanger, the youngest of three daughters to midwife May Britt ( née Froastad) and garage door salesman Jan Øystein Aksnes. She also contributed in soundtracks for several movies and series such as Girls, Frozen II and Wolfwalkers. In addition to her solo work, Aurora has collaborated and co-written songs for other artists including, Icarus, Askjell, Lena, Travis and The Chemical Brothers. At the beginning of her career she only played piano but was later involved in percussion and other aspects of the production of her music.
Her music is primarily electropop, folk, and art pop with vocals referred to as " ethereal". Her third studio album The Gods We Can Touch was released on 21 January 2022. Her second EP Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1) (2018) was the first part of a two-part album, which the second part was her second studio album, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) (2019). Later that year, she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song " Half the World Away".Īurora's debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2016) received generally positive reviews, charting in various European countries and earning platinum certification two times in Norway. Aurora gained notoriety with her debut extended play (EP), Running with the Wolves (2015), which contained the sleeper hit " Runaway". After some of her songs were uploaded online and became popular in Norway, she signed a recording contract with Petroleum Records, Decca and Glassnote Records in 2014. Born in Stavanger and raised in the towns of Høle and Os, she began writing her first songs and learning dance at the age of six.
Aurora Aksnes (born 15 June 1996), known mononymously as Aurora (stylized in all caps), is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, dancer and record producer.
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