Diamonds from Bj\u00f8ro H\u00e5land<\/p>\n
During his 40 year career, Bj\u00f8ro H\u00e5land has become one of Norway\u00b4s most prominent and beloved artists. The release Diamonds Are Forever testifies that this is a position he will retain in the years to come. The album is considered by many as one of his strongest releases. Here we find newly composed material, but also wonderful versions of earlier classics such as Marty Robbin\u00b4s “Devil Woman”. Other highlights include “Somewhere Down The Line”, “Hank Williams Blues,” “Manana” and the title track “Diamonds Are Forever”. The album was recorded in Nashville and is a joint project between H\u00e5land and Todd Cerney, Casey Kelly and Lesley Ellis. Cerney, Kelly and Ellis are all musicians and songwriters from Nashville who has toured with H\u00e5land for many years. Over the years they have delivered a number of hit songs for, among others, Kenny Rogers, Dottie West, Tanja Tucker and George Strait.<\/p>\n
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Bj\u00f8ro H\u00e5land: Diamonds Are Forever<\/p>\n
Diamonds Are Forever is Bj\u00f8ro\u00b4s 22nd release, and yet another example that his signature voice just gets better with the years. The album was recorded in Nashville and is a joint project between Bj\u00f8ro and the legendary trio Cerney, Kelly & Ellis, three singer\/songwriters from Nashville. The trio is expected to Norway as guests of Bj\u00f8ro’s album release tour in June.<\/p>\n
Todd Cerney and Casey Kelly has provided a number of top hits for among others, Kenny Rogers, Dottie West, Tanja Tucker and George Strait. Cerney was Grammy Nominated in the category for best country song with “I’ll still ask for loving you”, recorded by Restless Heart. He won the ASCAP Country Song of the Year, for the same song in 1987, and ASCAP Most Performed Song in a Movie 2002 with “Good Morning Beautiful”, recorded by Steve Holy. Leslie Ellis has been working on songs for Barbara Streisand, among others, and has received Grammy Award for backing vocals on Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on”. The trio, who play everything from mandolin and harmonica to guitar and keyboards, has toured with Bj\u00f8ro in the U.S. for many years, and has also participated several times at the Dark Season Festival in Kristiansand. They are all looking forward to touring together. Many have been waiting for a new Nashville-release fro H\u00e5land. Diamonds are Forever has become a 12 tracks long record full of vitality, energy and high quality music.<\/p>\n
The album was recorded in Nashville and is a joint project between H\u00e5land and Todd Cerney, Casey Kelly and Lesley Ellis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[6],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-571","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-grappa","7":"product_shipping_class-cddvd-shipping","8":"uni_artist_tag-andy-hull","9":"uni_artist_tag-bill-nash","10":"uni_artist_tag-bjoro-haland","11":"uni_artist_tag-bobby-hart","12":"uni_artist_tag-casey-kelly","13":"uni_artist_tag-charlie-mccoy","14":"uni_artist_tag-cyril-rawson","15":"uni_artist_tag-dan-dugmore","16":"uni_artist_tag-eddie-kilgalton","17":"uni_artist_tag-jennifer-kimball","18":"uni_artist_tag-jett-williams","19":"uni_artist_tag-john-d-loudermilk","20":"uni_artist_tag-kent-robbins","21":"uni_artist_tag-kim-nash","22":"uni_artist_tag-leslie-ellis","23":"uni_artist_tag-lewis-anderson","24":"uni_artist_tag-marty-robbins","25":"uni_artist_tag-mighty-moe","26":"uni_artist_tag-oddvar-hogetveit","27":"uni_artist_tag-per-kolstad","28":"uni_artist_tag-sonny-throckmorton","29":"uni_artist_tag-todd-cerney","30":"uni_artist_tag-wood-newton","31":"uni_main_artist_tag-bjoro-haland","32":"uni_artist_genre-country","34":"first","35":"outofstock","36":"taxable","37":"shipping-taxable","38":"purchasable","39":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}