Ina Wroldsen
Ina Christine Wroldsen, previously known simply as Ina, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She was a part of the electropop duo Ask Embla with Icelandic producer and songwriter Arnthor Birgisson.
Career
Wroldsen's career started solely as a recording artist, but soon turned to writing music for others. As a songwriter, she has had great success and is internationally considered one of the most sought after in her field. She has won several BMI/ASCAP awards for her work, among BRIT award and Spellemannprisen nominations. Her songs have been used by the likes of Shakira, Kylie Minogue, David Guetta, The Saturdays, James Arthur, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Madison Beer and Tinie Tempah.Between 2013 and 2018, the publishing interest of Ina Wroldsen's catalog was represented by Reverb Music/Reservoir Media Management. Since 2018, Warner Chappell Music have represented her publishing interests.
In recent years, Ina has also resumed her career as a recording artist. As part of Norwegian-Icelandic duo Ask Embla, together with Arnthor Birgisson. They released the album Northern Lights in 2013 in Norway. She has since continued her artist career under its own name. She released "Aliens ", "Rebels" and "Lay It on Me". The latter was released as a collaboration with the Norwegian producer duo Broiler and climbed to No. 2 on the VG-lista singles chart.
In 2015, Calvin Harris and Disciples chose to release Ina's song "How Deep Is Your Love" using her vocals.
In 2016, she was one of the judges in the Norwegian version of Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne.
She has been the featured vocalist on various worldwide acclaimed DJs' records, including Sigma, Steve Aoki, "Breathe" by Jax Jones and the Martin Solveig song "Places".
In June 2017, she signed a record deal with Simon Cowell's Syco Music label. Soon after, on 27 October 2017, she released her single "Strongest", which was quite successful in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and thanks to it in 2019 she was nominated for Spellemannprisen for the "Song of the Year" award.
In August 2018, she released in partnership with Alok "Favela" with her own vocals and inspired from a documentary about Latin American women.
From 2021 to 2024, Wroldsen served as a coach on The Voice Norway, winning its 2022 season with her act Jørgen Dahl Moe.
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Charted singles
As main artist
As featured artist
Other songs
| Title | Year | Album/EP |
| "If You Could Only See Me" | 2004 | rowspan="2" |
| "Sorry" | 2005 | - |
| "Human" | 2015 | See No Evil |
| "Feels Like Home" | 2015 | Life |
Credits
Singing-songwriting
Songwriting
Awards and nominations
| Year | Organization | Award | Work | Result | |
| 2018 | WDM Radio Awards | Best Electronic Vocalist | Ina Wroldsen | Nomitated | |
| 2018 | Spellemannprisen '17 | Årets internasjonale suksess | Ina Wroldsen | Won | |
| 2018 | P3 Gull | P3-Prisen | Ina Wroldsen | Won | |
| 2019 | Brit Awards | British Video of the Year | "Breathe" | Nomitated | |
| 2019 | Spellemannprisen '18 | Årets låtskriver | HEX Ina Wroldsen | Won | |
| 2019 | Spellemannprisen '18 | Årets tekstforfatter | HEX Ina Wroldsen | Nomitated | |
| 2019 | Spellemannprisen '18 | Årets låt | "Strongest" | Nomitated | |
| 2019 | 64th Ivor Novello Awards | PRS for Music Most Performed Work | "Breathe" | Nomitated |