The album was released in Raven's home country on 10 August 2005 debuting at No. It peaked on the at No. By the time she was eight, Raven began playing the piano and took piano lessons from Sif Anna Lisa Ødegård, married to Kjell Walther Christensen. Archived from on 3 July 2007. Raven was offered a recording contract with , though the offer was later revoked. Break You holds the record as Raven's top-selling single internationally.
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Raven formed the pop duo with , though they ceased performing together in 2002. Raven later confirmed that she was now signed to indie label , which was created by her management 10th Street Entertainment. M2M was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannprisen, the following year. . At age 7, she went on to be part of the St.
The song was co-produced by Jimmy Bralower and Peter Zizzo , and mixed by. Raven had to fight to record her kind of music, rock music with a pop element. Archived from on 24 May 2014. In August and 31 October 2014, an international version of Songs from a Blackbird released worldwide and Australia, respectively. She has also lent her voice to the Norwegian version of.
The track peaked at No. In 2010 she became a panellist judge on the Norwegian version of the talent show and later on. Raven later joined Loaf on an extensive tour through Canada and Europe in February 2007. In 2012, Raven began production of her second album, , which was released in Norway on 8 April 2013. The album, Mellom disse 4 vegger, was released on 11 October 2019. Raven has also written tracks for other artists such as.
She also attended ballet lessons, as well as performing ballet on stage. All three singles were successful in the Asian region where she further promoted the album with a tour. In 2006, Raven was signed to the indie record label, , and in 2007 re-released the songs on her debut album along with a few new songs on an album titled. Raven enjoyed singing from a young age, sometimes writing lyrics for the songs she sang. After years of dating, Raven married professional snowboarder in 2013 and divorced in 2015. The album saw Raven's transformation from the candy-pop music of M2M to a more angsty, rock-oriented singer, and was released in Scandinavia, Japan, Latin America and Southeast Asia. The album features a duet with , with whom she collaborated with during the series.
Their second album, , which was recorded in a studio in in Woodstock, New York, was released in 2002. The album's title was later announced as Scandal while its release date was set to be on September 2014, later the album was divided in two parts, Scandal Vol. After world tours to promote The Big Room ended, M2M joined on her world tour as an opening act. Archived from on 30 December 2006. Being her first album in eight years, Songs from a Blackbird managed to peak at No. Laurentius choir, which has many historical links in Lørenskog, and was started in 1965 by, and is still being run by her vocal coach for several years, Kjell Walther Christensen.
Originally, Raven recorded her third studio album Nevermore in 2009 and penned it for a 2010 release, but due to the internal issues with her record label , it was never released. Raven joined the gospel choir in a local church at the age of 5. The duo got a record deal with Norway and formed. For Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia, it released physically whereas the worldwide, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia, it was only released via the. Prior to the release of Raven's album in March 2007, she toured around The Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom to help promote it. She has an older brother and two younger sisters.
Later between later July and August, she became a supporting act on American singer-songwriter 's in Germany. Archived from on 27 March 2007. Initially, the record company was not confident of Raven's switch to a more rock image and a darker, more personal style of songwriting. Archived from on 7 April 2014. It incorporates a mixture of Norwegian version and three new songs from both Scandal Vol. Archived from on 21 February 2009. M2M later disbanded in September 2002.
Raven was later signed as a solo artist by with the release of her solo debut album, in 2005. Her surname is of origin, with Ravn meaning Raven, which she adopted as her stage name Marion Raven as well as her trademark raven logo. In 1998, M2M started recording pop demos in English and struck a record deal with. . .