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Agnes Buen Garnås
Person · female · Norway · Jondalen · born 1946 · died 2024
Norwegian singer (1946–2024)
Timeline
4 events✦ Award 2◦ Birth 1† Death 1
1940s
1980s
2000s
2020s
Biography
English biography120 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1348990450
Biography
Agnes Buen Garnås (23 October 1946 – 12 November 2024) was a Norwegian folk singer from the county of Telemark. She came from a famous musical family from Jondalen in Gransherad Municipality (now in Kongsberg Municipality), and was known particularly for her singing of ancient unaccompanied Norwegian ballads, as well as her updated arrangements of these songs in collaboration with the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek on the ECM album Rosensfole.
From 1975 to 1977, she studied at the Telemark University College.
Other family members who are well known as traditional musicians include her brothers, Hauk Buen and Knut Buen, and her son Per Anders Buen Garnås.
Buen Garnås died in Notodden on 12 November 2024, at the age of 78.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Spellemann Award in folk | won | |
| 2005 | Arts Council Norway Honorary Award | won | |
| — | King's Medal of Merit in Gold | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agnes_Buen_Garn%C3%A5s.JPGcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q394485genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q394485seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Buen_Garn%C3%A5sbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Buen_Garn%C3%A5s
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Norwegian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Frode Inge Helland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q394485 · MusicBrainz: cafc9697-8d2c-48d0-a204-9f06303af4dc
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