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    Kari Rueslåtten was born on the 3rd of October 1973, and has always enjoyed singing and performing. At the age of 14, she attended music school to learn classical singing. At the age of 16 she started "her own" rockband, which made a big contrast to her daily activities. But, according to Kari, she never had any problems doing classical concerts one day, and rock concerts the other. Together with 5 friends, she then founded the band "The 3rd and the Mortal" in 1993. They released 2 albums: first "Sorrow" on Head not Found Records, second "Tears laid in earth" on Voices of Wonder, both in 1994.
    A year later Kari left the band. [Although, Kari has emphasised on the fact that she did not leave The 3rd and the Mortal for going solo]. She experimented in folk music together with Norwegian black-metal leaders such as Sigurd Wongraven (Satyr, leader of Satyricon) and Gylve Nagel (Ferniz, leader of DarkThrone). Satyr, Herr and Kari had created project called "Storm" and recorded album "Nordavind" - Hymn of Norway, consisted of songs of Vikings in rock-version. After that she started making her own music. Anyway, her wish with her new project was to leave both rock and classical, and find an expression, which will be hers. Her first "Kari Demo Recordings 1995" were done in 1995, and was distributed to the record companies Kari were familiar with. This album exists in little number of copies, and probably sold out from ages. (I hope this is wrong).
She got great response, and signed a contract with Sony Music in march '96. Kari Ruesletten's debut "Spindelsinn" (fully in Norwegian language) was released January 1997, and was received very well! The songs "I menens favn" (meaning, "In the Embrace of The Moon") and "Spindelsinn" (meaning, "Surrounding Feeling" (or "Web Mind"?) has been aired quite a lot on Norwegian radio. About the process of song writing, Kari says: "I compose the songs on piano...". She finds her most important inspirations in nature, folk music, and legends (myths).
   In end of 1997 she removed from Trondheim to Norwegian capital - Oslo, where she is living now. The new album was released on October 5th 1998. Title: «Mesmerized». Her new album fully in English.
 
That's all. Translating from absolutely unknown Norwegian language to bad acquainted English is very hard.
   
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