- Born
- Nickname
- Hakkespetta
- Height1.85 m
- Morten Harket is the singer and front man in the Norwegian pop-group, a-ha since 1982. The group reached the top of the Billboard hit 100 with the classic falsetto-song "Take On Me" in 1985. Morten, Magne Furuholmen and Pål Waaktaar, got most famous for the A-ha: Take on Me (1985) video with sensational animations combined with real footage.- IMDb mini biography by: JAH
- Morten Harket has since 1982 been the singer and frontman for the Norwegian pop-group a-ha. a-ha earned world fame with the release of their debut album "Hunting High and Low" with songs like "Take On Me" to reach #1 on the billboard list and "The Sun Always Shines On TV" to reach 20# in the US and #1 in UK. The album went to sell more than 10 million copies.
a-ha went on to released 10 studio albums and has currently sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.
In 2016 a-ha released their 10th studio album "Cast In Steel" which ended up #7 in the UK and #4 in Germany to name some.- IMDb mini biography by: VVN
- SpouseCamilla Malmquist(February 11, 1989 - 1998) (divorced, 3 children)
- Children
- RelativesHåkon Harket(Sibling)
- Chiselled features
- Wide vocal range
- He has a 5 octave voice and he tends to forget his lyrics on stage.
- He reunited with a-ha in 1998.
- His former personal assistant, Inez Andersson, has been his girlfriend since 2005. They have 1 daughter together, Karmen Poppy, who was born on 16th September 2008.
- (1985-1986) Had a relationship with Bunty Bailey, the girl in a-ha's video clip of their first hit 'Take on me'.
- Started playing piano at the age of 4 - his roots are firmly set in classical music.
- For us you have to make peace with that song because it's stronger than you in a way. It's not going away.
- It's incredible how quickly you fall back into where you left off, one of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.
- I have always been a recluse really and to bring me out in the open like that is not easy, i think it has a lot of good things to it.
- To light up a cigarette in a room with non-smokers is like farting straight into peoples' faces. Most people don't do that. But farting is less of a risk to your health.
- 'Forever Not Yours' is one of those songs that sums us up. Melancholy, and at the same time uplifting - soaring.
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