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Place of Birth: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
About Marika Lejon
- Marika Lejon (born 3 October 1984 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian composer and singer.
- She grew up in Søgne, in the south of Norway, with a Norwegian father and a Czech mother.
- Her parents were both journalists, so she had the opportunity to travel and see the world. She was educated at University of Oslo in Media Studies, and completed a master's degree autumn 2010.
- She was also educated nutritionist at Norges Idrettshøgskole and webmaster at Gjøvik University College.
- From 2014 to 2015 Marika Lejon worked as an editor for Gymgrossisten Magazine (CDON Group).
- Since 2007 she has worked as a journalist for different magazines. Music At the age of 5, she started to learn how to play the piano by a private music teacher.
- Two years later she ditched the piano in favor of voice-lessons which lasted until she was 16.
- At the age of 6, she started composing music.
- Before she started performing on TV, she participated in, among other things, NM Rock 2000 (Finale of the Rockefeller in Oslo, where she was voted as the best vocalist), by:Larm 2002 (youngest participant). NRK.no.Lejon released her first single "To Milan" in 2004.
- She participated in "Kjempesjansen" autumn 2006 with the self-composed song "Again" and the gypsy song "Nane Tsocha".
- She participated in the Melodi Grand Prix 2007 (the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection) with the song "Perfect Sin" which was written by the Swedish Adam AlverMark.
- Then she participated in the Norwegian´s Got Talents on TV2.
- In 2009 she released her debutalbum "My Fire".
- She calls the genre on this record "Gipsypop". In 2011 she participated for the second time in the Melodi Grand Prix with the self-composed song "Hungry for You (Gipsy Dance)", but didn't get to the finals.
- According to her, she wrote the song while she was writing the thesis, longing for dancing and laughter. Lejon released her second album "Before Death" in 2015.
- The name of the album was decided, because all the songs were made before her mother dies of cancer in 2014.
- The cover was also made in Iceland (at Reynisdrangar), just one month before her mother died. In August 2015 Lejon became a mother to Lorren Karlotta Arnthorsdottir Lejon. Award-winning work June 11, 2018, Lejon received the Dixi award, awarded by the Norwegian Minister of Children and Equality, Linda Hofstad Helleland.
- Lejon received the award because of her work to prevent sexual abuse.
- She is the editor of a platform where assailants can share their stories anonymously.
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