Magne Furuholmen
| Magne Furuholmen | |
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Magne Furuholmen with a-ha in 2010.
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Magne F, Mags |
| Born |
November 1, 1962 Oslo, Norway |
| Genres | Synthpop, new wave, alternative rock, indie rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, artist, singer, songwriter & painter |
| Instruments | Keyboard, vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, bass guitar, percussion |
| Labels |
Passionfruit Polydor ZYX |
| Associated acts |
A-ha Timbersound Apparatjik |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
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Roland Juno-60 Roland Juno 106 Yamaha DX7 |
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Magne Furuholmen (born November 1, 1962) is a Norwegian musician and visual artist. Furuholmen, better known to music fans by his stage name Mags, is the keyboardist of the synthpop/rock band A-ha, and co-wrote many of the band's hits including "Take on Me", "Stay on These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", "Cry Wolf", "Forever Not Yours", "Analogue (All I Want)", and "Foot of the Mountain".
Furuholmen is also an visual artist with solo exhibitions held in Norway, the UK, and elsewhere in Europe. His work is represented in private and public institutions and museums worldwide, among them The Norwegian State Archives, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and others.
Furuholmen was born in Oslo, the son of jazz trumpeter Kåre Furuholmen (1940–69) and Anne-Lise Furuholmen (b. 1940). He was raised in Manglerud, Oslo (along with A-ha colleague and co-writer Paul Waaktaar-Savoy). He has one sister, Line, and two half brothers, Thorstein and Trygve Christian. His father, a jazz musician who played trumpet with Bent Sølves Orkester, was killed in an aeroplane crash over Drammen, south of Oslo in 1969, when Magne was just six. Remarkably, this very accident was witnessed by a nine-year-old Morten Harket, thirteen years before the two were to meet for the first time.
Furuholmen married Heidi Rydjord, his high school sweetheart, on August 8, 1992, in the garden of their Nesøya home. They have two sons, Thomas Vincent (born April 20, 1990) and Filip Clements (born October 2, 1993).
Furuholmen also revealed in an interview published by Norway's third largest newspaper Dagbladet (in its additional magazine Magasinet) that he suffers from a heart disease. The news was picked up the same day by Side-Line music magazine.
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