Lena Anderssen

Lena Anderssen
Background information
Birth name	Lena Anderssen
Origin	Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	singer and songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1996—present
Labels	Independent, ArtPeople
Website	Official website

Lena Anderssen is a Faroese/Canadian singer-songwriter with four albums to her name. Her album Letters From The Faroes was chosen as Album of the Year on the Faroe Islands, where she was born. Although the lyrics to her songs are all written in English, she is also fluent in both Faroese and Danish. Anderssen is known for her intimate and intense live performances, as well as for having several of her songs featured in TV series like 90210, Scrubs, Felicity, Nikita, Alias, and Miami Social.

Anderssen was born in the Faroe Islands to a Canadian-Danish-Norwegian father and a Faroese mother but moved to Canada when she was two years old. Her family relocated numerous times in the following years to Victoria and Vancouver in British Columbia; Thunder Bay, Ontario; and Montreal, Quebec. Just before she turned 17, Anderssen moved back to the land of her birth with her mother and three siblings.

Norwegian drummer Remi Fagereng was visiting a coffee shop in the Faroese capital of Tórshavn, where Anderssen worked, when he overheard her singing to herself and realized her talent. Weeks later, she joined his cover band, Next Step.

After playing one of the main characters in the successful Faroese musical Skeyk, Anderssen began collaborating with its musical composer, Niclas Johannesen. Together, they wrote the songs that comprised her debut album Long Distance, which was produced by Johannesen and released in the Faroe Islands only.

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