Høgni Reistrup is a singer-songwriter and artist from Tórshavn

Tórshavn

Tórshavn is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn...

, Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

. His influences include Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

, and Kári P. Reistrup also has a background in classical music.

Discography

Reistrup released his debut album titled Hugafar á ferð in the summer of 2007. The first single from the album reached No. 1 on the official chart in the Faroe Islands.

His second album, Trý fet frá tilveruni, was released on 1 March 2010. The album was recorded in the Faroe Islands and mixed in Dublin.

Høgni is signed to the independent Faroese record label, Tutl.

Extern Links

• Hognireistrup.com
• Youtube.com
• Facebook.com
• Myspace profile
• Last.fm
• Planet.portal.fo, Høgni Reistrup á konsertferð.
• Portal.fo, Høgni er aftur nr. 1.