A professional singer and miscellaneous instrumentalist since 1982, TORE ANDERSEN is today one of Norway´s most prominent singer/songwriters. After spending 10 years on the road with a "top 40" band, playing almost every dancehall and club there was, Tore met up with Ottar "Big Hand" Johansen. Being one of Scandinavias most profiled countryartists, he saw the potential in Tore´s performances and in his early material. Using his road band they recorded a 5-song demo which landed Tore a recording contract with BMG records in 1992. Recorded in Nashville with top session players, the 1993 debut "The hero in me" contained 12 self penned songs (co-writers included Tom Russell and Michael Woody of The Woodys). By one norwegian radio-DJ named the first modern norwegian country record, it produced two chart singles. A video for the song "The fool I am" was also aired on CMT Europe the following year. Tore continued contributing to the norwegian music scene, penning songs and singing harmony on several other artists albums, along with keeping a pretty heavy tour schedule. He also made frequent trips to Nashville collaborating with other writers, sometimes sitting in on writers nights. Tore takes his writing and performances very seriously and when he signed for New Cut Music in 1995 he knew his follow up record had to contain even stronger material. Recorded in Waterfall studios in Oslo during the cold Norwegian winter of 1998, the new self titled album "Tore Andersen" (New Cut Music) features another 11 self-penned songs along with a Bo Diddley inspired version of Don Gibsons "Blue Blue Day". Produced by Tore, Ottar "Big Hand" Johansen and Jørun Bøgeberg (once a member of A-HA´s touring band) using many of Norway´s finest musicians, all of them being good friends too, the album really contains some memorable moments. The critics joined in on saluting the record (Norways biggest newspaper "Verdens Gang" gave it a five star rating) and the single "Hard Water" has been getting massive airplay peaking at #2 on the norwegian popular music chart "Norsktoppen". Another track off the album, "Between two rivers", was also given heavy rotation on NRK 1 (Norwegians biggest radio station) for a consecutive five weeks. 1999 saw Tore promoting his album and performing not only around Norway but also in the U.S.,Holland and Switzerland. And while more and more people and radiostations around the globe are picking up on Tore Andersen' s music – we are confident that the start of the new millenium will be a bright one for this very talented artist. Please contact us on the address below, or send us an e-mail. Welcome back! New Cut Music / AS Høvik Karl Johansgt. 7, 0154 Oslo, Norway - Reg.no. 924796693