Magne Furuholmen

For me Magne Furuholmen will always be the quieter architect behind A-ha's biggest songs. People remember the soaring vocal on Take On Me, but he's the keyboardist and co-writer whose fingerprints are on that whole catalog, Stay on These Roads, Manhattan Skyline, Foot of the Mountain. What I find genuinely interesting is that he never settled for being a pop musician. He's also a serious visual artist, and Norway named him a Knight of the Order of St. Olav. That dual life, hit songwriter and gallery painter, suggests a restless creative mind that never wanted to be pinned to one identity.

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Name (English)

Magne Furuholmen

Name (Japanese)

マグネ・フルホルメン

Reading

まぐね・ふるほるめん

Born

November 1, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Oslo, Norway

Occupation

record producer / composer / guitarist / pianist / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Awards & achievements

• Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav‎

• Official sitehttps://www.magnefuruholmen.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/magne_furuholmen/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne%20Furuholmen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454075

Tags

• record producer
• composer
• guitarist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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