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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Thea Hjelmeland
Person · female · Norway · Førde · born 1987
Norwegian musician, singer and songwriter
Also known as 테아 옐멜란
Timeline
4 events✦ Award 3◦ Birth 1
1980s
2010s
Biography
English biography137 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1329462737
Biography
Thea Hjelmeland (born 1987) is a Norwegian musician, singer and songwriter. She was born in Førde Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, to an artist mother and a musician father.
Career
Her first album Oh, the third.. was released in 2012.
Her second album Solar Plexus was released in 2014. The music is a mixture of pop, electronica and world music. The album received good to excellent reviews. The song "Feathery" was released as a single.
Hjelmeland has featured on several of Lars Vaular's songs. In 2014, she made the music for Frode Grytten's play Sånne som oss at Den Nationale Scene. The play was based on the songs of John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen.
She lives in Bergen and has also lived in Førde, Cuba and Paris.
Honors
2014: Spellemannprisen awarded in the class Indie pop
2015: Vossajazzprisen
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 | 5 | 32th |
| 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 |
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 Thea Hjelmeland head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Q111702478 | won | |
| 2015 | Q131674139 | won | |
| 2019 | Q18643271 | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thea_Hjelmeland_%28144040%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18208779genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18208779seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thea_Hjelmelandbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thea_Hjelmeland
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Norwegian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Tore Sætre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q18208779 · MusicBrainz: 94b77702-2e9d-4bff-89f1-6fef012a6e74
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