...Her parents gave her the name Lene Marlin Pedersen, and today the world knows her better as Lene Marlin.

...in fact Lene tells the story of being two years old and crying because she had to leave a guitar behind at the music store.

... When Lene was 15 years old her parents surprised her with a guitar for Christmas,...before long was performing for a small group of friends.

Sometime during the summer of 1997, NRK (the main Norwegian TV/radio station) in Lene's hometown, Tromsø, received a tape of this talented young girl who wrote and played her own songs. The TV station invited her in to record a song...

Three weeks later a contract(with Virgin Records ) had been signed and Lene's life took an interesting turn. In 1998 came the release in Norway of her first single Unforgivable Sinner. It proved to be a huge hit as it reached number one and kept that position for 8 weeks. It was also the fastest selling single in Norwegian music history. Her second single Sitting Down Here also did very well in Norway and led into the release of her album Playing My Game on March 22, 1999, in Norway. In only 3 days the album sold 50.000 copies ( Norwegian population: 4.4 million.)...sales for the three albums now total around 2.400.000. 

Lene won four awards at the Norwegian Grammy awards in 1999, as well as the MTV-Europe award for Best Nordic Act in Dublin on November 11, 1999.  

In September, 2003, Lene released her second album, Another Day, also on EMI Virgin label. The album sales for this release have now exceeded 600.000 copies worldwide. The first single, You Weren't There, became a No. 1 hit in both Norway and Italy, and the song went on to become the most air-played song in the musical history of her native country. In December 2004, Lene held her first live concert tour across Norway...

(to be continued)

excerpted with adaptation from www.lene-marlin.no.

琳恩·玛莲 帕得森-----北欧精灵

1998  单曲  Unforgivable Sinner　《不可饶恕的罪人》

1999  单曲 Sitting Down Here   《我坐在这里》

1999 专辑  Playing My Game    《自由自在》

2003 专辑  Another Day　     《天天天天 or 另一天》