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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Dance with a Stranger
Group · Norway · formed 1984
Norwegian rock music group
Timeline
4 events✦ Award 3◆ Formed 1
1980s
1990s
Biography
English biography192 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1319585275
Biography
Dance with a Stranger is a Norwegian rock band from Kristiansund.
Biography
The band was founded in Bergen 1984 and had great success until they parted in 1994. Since then, they have had a few reunion concerts, as well as releasing compilation CDs.
In 1990, they performed at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and won an award for World's Best-Selling Norwegian Artist. They were, among other things, voted Spellemann of the Year at the Spellemannprisen 1991. The band took a longer break in the period 2002 to 2005. In 2007, they released the double compilation album Everyone Needs a Friend... The Very Best of Dance with a Stranger with three new songs and previously unreleased soundtracks from the 1980s, as well as highlights from the band's many releases.
In 2013, bassist Yngve Moe died in an accident. The band still completed their farewell tour in 2014, now joined by Per Mathisen on bass. The band has continued concert activities after this.
Members
Present members
Frode Alnæs – guitar, vocals
Øivind "Elg" Elgenes – vocals
Per Mathisen – bass (2014)
Bjørn Jenssen – drums
Former member
Yngve Moe – bass (1983–1994; died 2013)
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 | 6 | 38.9th |
| 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) | 42 | 82.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Dance with a Stranger head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| 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) | 42 | 82.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Spellemann Award for pop record of the year | won | |
| 1989 | Spellemann Award for pop record of the year | won | |
| 1991 | Spellemann Award of the year | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DanceWithAStranger.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5215341genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5215341seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_with_a_Stranger_%28band%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_with_a_Stranger_%28band%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Norwegian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q5215341 · MusicBrainz: 193518dc-d6a5-4cef-9809-83c647524919
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