Dagny (singer)
Dagny Norvoll Sandvik (born 23 July 1990) is a Norwegian singer who had success with her debut single "Backbeat". Biography. Dagny is the daughter of the vocalist Marit Sandvik and the jazz musician Øystein Norvoll. She started performing locally in Tromsø following a songwriting assignment at school. After moving to the UK in 2012, Dagny performed on the small club circuit with her partner at the time but after she felt that "things weren't really going anywhere", she enrolled at university for a degree in digital media design in 2015. The next summer, she recorded the song  Backbeat, which caught the attention of Zane Lowe at Apple Music's Beats 1 station and appeared on Spotify's New Music playlist, achieving 300,000 plays in a few days. The acoustic version of the song was featured on "Grey's Anatomy" in the episode "True Colors". She had big success on Spotify and signed with Republic Records. Rob Stevenson said of her, ""Backbeat" immediately aroused our attention, and after a showcase in New York, our entire company fell in love with her. We look forward to further convey her vision to the world". She was credited as a songwriter  on Katy Perry's 2019 song "Never Really Over", which also interpolated Dagny's "Love You Like That". After a series of singles, the agreement with Republic Records ended and her first album, "Strangers / Lovers", was released in October 2020 on her own label, Little Daggers. Dagny starred in Season 2 of the Netflix series "Home for Christmas" as Lisa. The acoustic version of her hit single “Somebody” and the song “Bye Bye Baby” from "Strangers / Lovers" also made appearances in the show.