Erlend Øye

Erlend Øye is a Norwegian composer, musician, producer, singer and songwriter from Bergen, best known for being part, together with Eirik Glambek Bøe, of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience. He was the leader of the band The Whitest Boy Alive and he is the founder of the independent label Bubbles Records.

Biography

Bergen

Erlend Øye was born on 21 November 1975 in Bergen. Having grown up listening to Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths, during the high-school in the middle of '90s, he formed together with some friends the band Skog ("forest" in Norwegian), taking inspiration from the famous song "A Forest" by The Cure. In 1996 he joined the band Peachfuzz as electric guitarist, playing several times in London between 1996 and 1998.

In 2008 he started to collaborate on a project with Mikal Telle of the label Tellé Records and so they decided to create the independent label Opplett with the aim of producing young talents from Bergen and surroundings. The label Opplett published three projects: in 2008 the album Opplett 2008 that contains seven songs by seven different artists (as Lars Vaular, John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen and Razika); the first single song of the indie rock band Razika called Love is All About the Timing; and finally in 2009 the first album of the band Fjorden Baby!.