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Anja Eline Skybakmoen

Norwegian jazz musician and band leader

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Anja Eline Skybakmoen (born 17 October 1984 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz singer, composer and band leader, the younger sister of guitarist Jonas Skybakmoen, and married 31 July 2014, to the guitarist David Aleksander Sjølie.

Skybakmoen was educated at Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo. She has sung in projects like Eplemøya Songlag and Aphrodisiac. She replaced Tora Augestad in the vocal group Pitsj, and appeared on the album Gjenfortellinger (2009) together with the sisters Anine and Benedikte Kruse, and the twin sisters Ane Carmen and Ida Roggen. In 2013 she appeared for the first time with her own Anja Eline Skybakmoen Band including with Sebastian Haugen-Markussen (bass), Ivar Loe Bjørnstad (drums), David Aleksander Sjølie (guitar), Dag-Filip Roaldsnes (rhodes & synth) and Kim-Erik Pedersen (saxophon). She presented original material at Moldejazz and released her debut solo album We’re The Houses (2014).

2012: Jazz Talent Award at the Moldejazz

2012: Geir Digernes Minnepris at the Trondheim Jazz Festival

2014: We're The Houses (Øra Fonogram)

2008: Edvard Grieg in Jazz Mood (Universal Music), with Kjell Karlsen ("I Dovregubbens hall")

2009: Gjenfortellinger (Grappa Music)

2014: Snow Is Falling (Grappa Music)

2010: Eplemöya Songlag (NorCD)

2000: Explosift! (D'sign Records)

2012: Northern Arc (Curling Legs)

En sang til båtflyktningene (A song for the boat refugees)

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