Jørn Christensen
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Jørn Christensen is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

. He is known as a prominent and original guitarist of many leading Norwegian bands. Some of the more important projects have been those in conjunction with Ola Snortheim
Ola Snortheim
Ola Snortheim is a Norwegian artist and record producer.Snortheim is the son of the folk-musician Olav Snortheim...

, the force behind Langsomt Mot Nord
Langsomt Mot Nord
Langsomt Mot Nord is a Norwegian synth-duo, founded by rock-drummer Ola Snortheim. The music of Langsomt Mot Nord is derived from Norwegian traditional music...

, which Christensen came up with the name for. Christensen is also a producer, and has worked with popular Norwegian bands like deLillos
DeLillos
deLillos is a Norwegian rock band formed in Oslo in 1984. They are regarded as one the "Four Greats" in modern Norwegian pop music, i.e. one of the four 1980s groups that founded a new tradition for rock music with lyrics in Norwegian...

.

He had a leading role in the Norwegian movie X (1986), directed by Oddvar Einarson
Oddvar Einarson
Oddvar Einarson is a Norwegian movie director. He made his debut with the film Time i nyttelære in 1967 and has since directed a number of films, some of the best known being: Kampen om Mardøla , Prognose Innerdalen , X , Karachi and Havet stiger .In 1987 he won the Norwegian movie award Amanda...

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Jørn Christensen has been a member of the following Norwegian bands:
  • Can Can
  • CC Cowboys
    CC Cowboys
    CC Cowboys is a Norwegian Rock band from Fredrikstad. Their members are the vocalist and guitarist Magnus Grønneberg, their guitarist Jørn Christensen their bassist Per Vestaby and their drummer Agne Sæther....

  • Cirkus Modern
  • De Press
    De Press
    |De Press is a Polish-Norwegian rock band founded in Oslo in 1980.They were among the leading Norwegian new wave bands, and also gained a following in Poland.The original De Press had the following line-up:*Andrej Nebb - vocals and bass...

  • Langsomt Mot Nord
    Langsomt Mot Nord
    Langsomt Mot Nord is a Norwegian synth-duo, founded by rock-drummer Ola Snortheim. The music of Langsomt Mot Nord is derived from Norwegian traditional music...

  • Mercury Motors
  • Norske Gutter
  • Thinkerbell
  • Young Neils
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