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Jonas Fjeld
12+ albums
singer-songwriterNorwaycountry rockfolkVise
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Norwegian countryrock artist/singer-songwriter. Jonas Fjeld is a four-time Spellemannprisen award-winning Norwegian country-rock singer/songwriter and guitarist whose career spans several decades, beginning in the 1970s and carrying on well into the new millennium. In addition to his critical accolades, he also enjoyed commercial success, hitting the upper reaches of the Norwegian albums chart with regularity. Born Terje Jensen on September 24, 1952, in Drammen, Norway, Fjeld made his album debut in 1973 with Jonas Fjeld Rock & Rolf Band, an eponymous release sung in both English and Norwegian that was named after his band at the time. After a couple more bilingual albums with the Jonas Fjeld Rock & Rolf Band, plus the English-language solo album Take Two Asprins and Call Me in the Morning (1975), he founded the Jonas Fjeld Band and began releasing strictly English-language efforts. The first Jonas Fjeld Band effort, The Tennessee Tapes (1977), was his first release to reach the Top Ten of the Norwegian albums chart. Following another solo album, Living for the Weekend (1983), the Jonas Fjeld Band released the critically acclaimed albums Neck 'n' Neck (1985) and Time & Motion (1986), both of which won Spellemannprisen (i.e., Norwegian Grammy) awards for Best Rock Album of the Year. In the wake of this success, Fjeld released a few Norwegian-language albums in collaboration with others: Neonlys På Wergeland (1987), Etterlatte Sanger (1988), and Svaert Nok for Meg (1990). The
