Morten Harket

Honestly, few voices in pop history stop you cold the way Morten Harket's does — that crystalline tenor climbing into impossibly pure high notes is just not something you expect from a guy out of Kongsberg, Norway, and yet here we are. As the lead vocalist of A-ha he helped make "Take On Me" one of the defining singles of 1985, but I think he deserves credit beyond the MTV-rotated video: A-ha went on to release eleven studio albums and Harket kept that voice almost supernaturally intact decade after decade. His 1995 Spellemann Award sweep — male artist, record, hit, and artist of the year — showed Norway knew exactly what it had, and the 2012 Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav was a fitting national acknowledgment. Six solo records on top of the band work tells you he's never just coasting on nostalgia, and I respect that enormously.

Name (English)

Morten Harket

Name (Japanese)

モートン・ハルケット

Reading

もーとん・はるけっと

Born

September 14, 1959 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Origin

Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Occupation

singer / songwriter / musician / recording artist / composer

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Spellemann Award for male artist of the year
• 1995 Spellemann Award of the year
• 1995 Spellemannprisen for hit of the year
• 1995 Spellemann Award for record of the year
• 2012 Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav‎

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://mortenharket.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mortenharket/
• Xhttps://x.com/mortenharket
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88

Tags

• Buskerud
• singer
• songwriter
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.