Aurora Asknes

## AURORA

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**Aurora "AURORA" Aksnes**, was born on June 15, 1996. She is an Norwegian recording artist, actress, and philanthropist.

Aksnes sang a version of "Running with the Wolves (Wolfwalkers Version)", which is featured in the song of *Wolfwalkers*.

## Early Life

Aurora Aksnes was born in the Stavanger University Hospital in Stavanger, Norway, on 15 June 1996. She spent her first three years in Høle, a small town where her parents, May Britt Froastad and Jan Øystein Aksnes, had lived for 15 years.Template:Citation needed In her house in Høle, Aurora developed her taste for nature, singing and traditional clothing, such as long skirts and hats. Later the family moved further north in western Norway, to a house in the woodlands of the Os mountains, a remote municipality in Hordaland, near Bergen. Aurora has described this place as “There are almost no cars and the roads are small and bumpy and there are lots of trees everywhere, it's very quiet and the internet is bad.”. She has also compared it to the fictional land of Narnia. When she attended school, her sisters—Miranda (currently her makeup artist) and Viktoria Aksnes (currently her costume designer)—worried that she could be harassed by other students, due to her personality and "weird" way of dressing. “I used to be terrified of people who wanted to hug me,” she said. “I did not like to be hugged as a child. And I used to be terrified of one of my teachers at school, but then I met him a few months ago, and it was really nice. It’s weird how things change."

Aurora is the only musician in her family. She started learning to play piano when she was six. "I really love classic music, and when I found this piano in the attic, I just started pressing the keys and trying to figure out my favorite classical songs. I started to make melodies that I recognized. There was something special about being able to play just by yourself – something about the emotion in it made me want to continue playing." At age nine, when she had a better handle of the English language, she began writing songs. Her first original composition was titled "I Had A Dream", which referred to how hard the world can be. Songs such as "Running with the Wolves," "I Went Too Far" and "Runaway" were written in this early stage of her life, with "Runaway" being written when she was 12. She has mentioned she was influenced by artists like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Enya, and The Chemical Brothers.

## Career

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 – Eg trur eg har noko av magien frå Høle med på mi reise ut i verda / Aurora budde sine fyrste år i Sandnes (2016-08-26).
2. ↑ Singer Aurora on her debut album and the John Lewis Christmas advert (en) (2016-03-14).
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Petrarca, Emilia. Meet Aurora, the Mythical Lovechild of Björk and Grimes (en).
4. ↑ Nast, Condé. Meet the Rising Pop Star With "Norwegian Viking Hair" That's Bringing Back the Stealth Buzzcut (en).
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6. ↑ Aurora learns not to sweat things on All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend (en) (2016-11-30).
7. ↑ Darwin, Liza. Popular TV - The Anti-Social Network (en-US).
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Vincent, Alice (2015-11-05). "Who is Aurora, the 19-year-old Norwegian singer for the 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert?" (in en-GB), *The Telegraph*.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx\_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft\_val\_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.type=newspaperArticle&rft.subject=News&rft.aufirst=Alice&rft.aulast=Vincent&rft.title=Who+is+Aurora%2C+the+19-year-old+Norwegian+singer+for+the+2015+John+Lewis+Christmas+advert%3F&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Faurora-john-lewis-christmas-advert-2015%2F&rft.source=The+Telegraph<
9. ↑ Running with Aurora (en-US) (2015-05-27).
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11. ↑ Christopoulou, Danai. What You Should Know About Norwegian Pop Singer Aurora.