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Oh Land
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Oh Land performing at Roskilde Festival 2011 in Roskilde, Denmark
Background information
Birth name Nanna Øland Fabricius
Born (1985-05-02) 2 May 1985 (age 39)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • musician
  • record producer
  • dancer
Years active 2008–present
Labels
  • Fake Diamond
  • Epic
  • Federal Prism
Website www.ohlandmusic.com

Nanna Øland Fabricius (born 2 May 1985),[1] better known by her stage name Oh Land, is a Danish singer-songwriter and record producer. She resides in Brooklyn, New York City.[2]

Career

2008–11: Debut, Fauna and Oh Land

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Oh Land performing in Dublin, 2011

Oh Land's debut album, Fauna, was released in her native Denmark on 10 November 2008 by Danish independent label Fake Diamond Records.[3] For her eponymous follow-up album, she worked with producers Dan Carey, Dave McCracken and Lester Mendez.[4] The album was released on 14 March 2011[5] and peaked at number five on the Danish Albums Chart.[6] It also served as her debut in the United States, where it was released on 15 March 2011 by Epic Records,[7] reaching number 184 on the Billboard 200 chart.[8] An EP with the same name was previously released on 19 October 2010, containing four tracks from the full-length album.[9] On 7 April 2011, she was given the Brink of Fame: Music Artist award at the 2011 NewNowNext Awards.[10]

Oh Land made her US television debut performance on Late Show with David Letterman on 2 March 2011 performing her single "Sun of a Gun".[11] She also performed it on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on 24 March 2011 and on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 25 May.[12][13] Oh Land toured North America as the supporting act for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in March 2011,[14] and supported Sia on North American dates of her We Are Born tour in July and August 2011.[15] She also opened for Katy Perry on select US dates of her California Dreams Tour in August 2011, and joined Perry again in October and November on the tour's second leg in the UK and Ireland.[16] As an actress, Oh Land had a supporting role as Sara in the 2007 Danish psychological drama film Hvid nat.[17][18][19] Her song 'Speak Out Now' was used as the theme for the TV series Rita starting in 2012.

2012–13: Wish Bone

On 20 May 2013, "Renaissance Girls" was released as the lead single from Oh Land's third studio album, Wish Bone.[20][21] The album was released in Denmark on 16 September 2013,[22] and will be released in the United States on 24 September via Dave Sitek's boutique label Federal Prism.[21][23] The second single "Pyromaniac" was released on 2 September 2013.[24] On 20 September Oh Land kicked off her Wish Bone tour at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show featured special guests Sun Rai and (Who Is) Anastasia,[25] who will both also appear with her at Gramercy Theatre on 24 September.[26]

2014–present: Acting, Voice Junior and Earth Sick

Oh Land also stars in the 2014 Danish western, The Salvation, as Marie, alongside Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Eric Cantona, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2014.[27]

On 28 June 2014, Oh Land revealed plans for her fourth record, which would be recorded in her Brooklyn apartment and crowdfunded in collaboration with PledgeMusic;[28] part of the proceeds would also be donated to Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign.[29] The album was ultimately titled Earth Sick, and its lead single "Head Up High" was released on 6 October 2014.[30] Oh Land debuted "Head Up High" live on 23 September 2014 on Denmark's Voice Junior, for which she serves as a coach. The music video for "Head Up High" was released on 20 October 2014, with a world premiere on the Nylon website, which described it as "a victorious electro-jam smattered with twinkling bells and grounding percussion" and while that could be used to describe other songs, they felt the new track still demonstrated Oh Land's evolution and maturation as an artist.[31] Nylon also announced that Earth Sick would be released on 11 November 2014 on Oh Land's Tusk or Tooth label. On 27 October, the title track from the album was made available to download for people who had pre-ordered the album on her pledge site, and the following day it was released as the instant download track on other retailers.

Personal life

Oh Land was born in Copenhagen,[32] the daughter of Bendt Fabricius,[33] an organist (not to be confused with the composer Bent Fabricius Bjerre), and Bodil Øland,[34] an opera singer.[35] She is the great-great-grandchild of Lutheran missionary and ethnographer Otto Fabricius, who published Fauna Groenlandica in 1780, the first zoological observations of Greenland.[36] She is a former student of the Royal Danish and Royal Swedish Ballet schools.[37] However, an injury caused by a slipped disc and spinal fracture put an end to her dancing career, which eventually led her to start making music.[35] Oh Land has a small dog named Ujan that travels with her sometimes.[38][39] She has lived in the Williamsburg neighbourhood in Brooklyn since January 2010.[40] She married designer Eske Kath in 2013 at a zoo in Denmark. [41] On February 14, 2016 she gave birth to her first son in New York. [42]

Discography

Studio albums

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Oh Land performing at the Music Box in Los Angeles, 25 March 2011
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
DEN
[6]
US
[8]
Fauna
Oh Land
  • Released: 14 March 2011
  • Label: Fake Diamond, A:larm
  • Format: CD, digital download
5 184
Wish Bone
  • Released: 16 September 2013
  • Label: Tusk or Tooth, A:larm
  • Format: CD, digital download
4
Earth Sick
  • Released: 10 November 2014
  • Label: Tusk or Tooth
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

Title Album details
Oh Land
  • Released: 19 October 2010
  • Label: Fake Diamond, Universal
  • Format: Digital download
Head Up High (The Remixes)
  • Released: 3 March 2015
  • Label: Tusk or Tooth
  • Format: Digital download

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
DEN
[6]
AUT
[44]
GER
[45]
US
Dance

[46]
"Audition Day" 2008 Fauna
"Heavy Eyes" 2009
"Sun of a Gun" 2010 31 59 60 12 Oh Land
"Wolf & I" 2011
"Voodoo"
"White Nights" 13
  • IFPI DEN: Gold[47]
"Speak Out Now" 4
  • IFPI DEN: Gold[48]
"Renaissance Girls" 2013 Wish Bone
"'Pyromaniac"
"Head Up High" 2014 Earth Sick
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As featured artist

Title Year Album
"Love Lost City"[49]
(Peder featuring Oh Land)
2010 Dirt & Gold
"Life Goes On"
(Gym Class Heroes featuring Oh Land)
2011 The Papercut Chronicles II
"Etude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3 "Tristesse" (Oh Land Version)"[50]
(Lang Lang featuring Oh Land)
2012 The Chopin Tristesse EP

Other appearances

Title Year Album
"Det Noget Tosser Gør" 2009 Ormen & Alberte Har Besøg Af Blæs Bukki
"Altmuligmanden" 2010 12 bud på CV – Fortolkninger af en vis beskaffenhed[51]
"Great Kills" (Kasper Bjørke featuring Oh Land) Standing on Top of Utopia
"Mouthful of Wasps" (Kashmir featuring Oh Land) Trespassers
"Pallas Athena" (Kashmir featuring Oh Land)
"Bewildered in the City" (Kashmir featuring Oh Land)
"Tingeltangeltingeltangel" (Maeckes featuring Oh Land) Mash Up! 2
"La Fin" (featuring Cours Lapin) Cours Lapin
"Almost Touched" 2011 The Flying Machine
"Twist" Abduction (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)[52]
"Last of Our Kinds" (Yuksek featuring Oh Land) 2013 Partyfine EP#1[53]
"Right Here" (Tricky featuring Oh Land) 2014 Adrian Thaws[54]
"I'm Not Going" (Tricky featuring Oh Land) 2016 Skilled Mechanics[55]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2007 "Hvid nat" Sara movie
2009 "Store Drømme" Pige i foyer TV series; 1 episode
2014 "The Salvation" Marie movie

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