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Morten Harket (born September 14, 1959 in Kongsberg) is the lead singer of the Norwegian pop band a-ha.
After a-ha split up in 1993, Morten pursued a solo career, in which he released three albums. Two of those albums were sung in Norwegian, but his 1995 album, Wild Seed, became more of an international success because of its English lyrics. Morten worked with Håvard Rem, a Norwegian poet, to write most of the songs. A Kind of Christmas Card and Spanish Steps were the most successful numbers. The rest were either easy, simple songs, or more profound ones, like East Timor, and Brodsky Tune, which had messages in them.
He is believed to hold the record for the longest single note in a song, having held a note for 20.2 seconds in a-ha's 2000 song Summer Moved On. This overtook the previous record of 18 seconds held by Bill Withers on the song Lovely Day. The longest note held by a woman is 16 seconds by Donna Summer in her 1979 single Dim all the lights.
Morten Harket joined up with his colleagues in a-ha in 1998. They have just released their 8th studio album and are currently on tour, celebrating a-ha's 20th anniversary.
Morten has three children with his ex-wife Camilla Malmqvist; Jakob who is 16, Jonathan who is 14 and Tomine who is 11. His girlfriend Anne Mette gave birth to their first child, a daughter, in 2003.
Solo Career Discography
Albums
- Poetenes Evangelium (November 09, 1993)
- Wild Seed (September 04, 1995) — includes East Timor)
- Vogts Villa (November 25, 1996)
Singles
- A Kind of Christmas Card (August 07, 1995)
- Spanish Steps (February 19, 1996)
- Los Angeles (March 11, 1996) — released only in Norway
- Heaven's Not For Saints (May 27, 1996)
- Tilbake Til Livet (November 01, 1996) — released only in Norway as a radio promo
- Herre I Drømmen (December 24, 1996) — released only in Norway as a radio promo
- Jungle of Beliefs (March 1999) — released only in Sweden as a promo
- A Jester In Our Town (1999) — released only in Norway as a promo
Soundtrack Contributions
- The song Kamilla & Tyven for the movie of the same name (1989)
- The song Can't Take My Eyes off of You for the movie Coneheads (1993)
Other appearances
- The official Unicef song Children First, sung live together with New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra, in Copenhagen, Denmark at the HC Andersen jubilee 2005.
- Morten co-hosted the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest with Ingvild Bryn.
Movie Appearances / Acting
- Kamilla & Tyven (1988)
- Kamilla & Tyven II (1989)
Trivia
- Has a thing for orchids and tropical fish.
- Political interests: Is fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of East Timor.
- Was offered a role as a villain's henchman in the James Bond movie The Living Daylights. However he declined, due to lack of time and because the producers only wanted him in the movie because of his popularity and not his acting skills. a-ha wrote and performed the title song for the movie.
- Briefly dated actress/model/dancer Bunty Bailey, who played "The Girl" in the video to a-ha's hit, "Take on Me".
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