Girl in Red

Not to be confused with Sexyy Red.
girl in red
Onstage, a young woman with long bleached hair and a nose ring holds an electric guitar while dressed casually in a t-shirt and jeans
Girl in Red in 2019
Background information
Birth nameMarie Ulven Ringheim
Born (1999-02-16) 16 February 1999 (age 25)
Horten, Norway
GenresAlternative pop[1]
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • music producer
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • piano
  • synthesizer
Years active2017–present
Labels
Websiteworldinred.com

Marie Ulven Ringheim (born 16 February 1999) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer, known for her indie pop project Girl in Red (stylised in all lowercase). Her first EPs Chapter 1 (2018) and Chapter 2 (2019) were recorded in her bedroom and feature songs about romance and mental health. Released majorly through AWAL, her debut studio album If I Could Make It Go Quiet (2021) was a critical and commercial success, and won three Norwegian Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. She then signed to Columbia Records and released her second major-label album, I'm Doing It Again Baby!, to moderate success in 2024.

Girl in Red has been cited as a queer icon by Paper,[2] and "one of the most astute and exciting singer-songwriters working in the world of guitar music" by The New York Times.[3] She has sold over five million certified digital units in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[4] She was awarded the Telenor Culture Prize in 2022 for her "artistic distinctiveness and explicit messages of boundless love".[5]

  1. ^ Murray, Robin (9 February 2024). "girl in red's 'Too Much' Is Deliciously Barbed". Clash. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  2. ^ Kaplan, Ilana (17 July 2019). "Meet Girl in Red: The Queer Artist Writing Teen Love Songs". Paper. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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  5. ^ Sande, Stian Kristoffer (8 September 2022). "Girl in Red awarded the Telenor Culture Prize 2022". Telenor (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2023.