Photo: Justin Higuchi / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
What I love about girl in red is the origin story: those first EPs cut in a Horten bedroom, songs about romance and mental health that somehow steadied listeners worldwide. There's a lesson there. You don't need a glossy studio to make something that matters; you need honesty and the nerve to use it. Her shelf of Spellemann Awards and that international-breakthrough prize confirm the world caught up to her, but the appeal was never polish. It was a young Norwegian artist refusing to hide her anxieties and turning them into community. I find that kind of vulnerability genuinely brave, and I keep rooting for her.
Overview
Marie Ulven Ringheim (born 16 February 1999), known professionally as Girl in Red (stylised in all lowercase), is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer. Her first EPs Chapter 1 (2018) and Chapter 2 (2019) were recorded in her bedroom and feature songs about romance and mental health.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- girl in red
- Name (Japanese)
- ガール・イン・レッド
- Reading
- がーる・いん・れっど
- Born
- February 16, 1999 (age 27)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Rabbit
- Origin
- Horten Municipality, Vestfold, Norway
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / singer-songwriter / composer / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Sherbrooke
Awards & achievements
- 2020 P3 Gull for Artist of the Year
- 2020 Spellemann Awards for best international success of the year
- 2021 Spellemann Awards for songwriter of the year
- 2021 Spellemann Award of the year
- 2024 Spellemann Awards for songwriter of the year
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Singer — see all → · Singer-songwriter — see all → · More people from Norway →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.