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Norwegian jazz singer (born )

Musical artist

Hilde Hefte (born 1 September in Kristiansand, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer.^[1]

Biography

Hefte got much of her musical education from the well reputated Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway with piano as primary and vocals as secondary instruments.

She played saxophone and clarinet for ten years when she was young, as an apprentice to her father who was saxophone teacher and musician. She was also trained as an actor, first with Alex Scherpf and later joining a Theater school.

She also received an increasing number of roles at Agder Teater and at various other venues, including in plays like Fugleelskerne by Jens Bjørneboe, and Piaf by Pan Gam. During a period of some years she was also teaching music at Agder musikkonservatorium before she started as a full-time musician.^[1]

Her debut solo album Round Chet's Midnight was released in , and received great reviews, like Down