Since he started in music almost 40 years ago, Jonas Fjeld has done everything from crazy comedy to heartfelt love ballads, from rough contry rock to successful variety theatre with [Norwegian poet, writer and singer] Ole Paus. Jonas Fjeld has seduced his listeners with an inspiration that comes from deep inside the roots of his heart and spreads like warm vibrations to the surroundings. Jonas Fjeld, 2006 From Texas to [central Oslo area] Grunerløkka, the melancholic and passionate Jonas Fjeld draws a landscape that is his and his alone. A landscape that may be dark as the river running his through his home town of Drammen, but also light as the tracks in the snow after the angels have raised up and flown away [a reference to the song "Angels in the Snow"/ "Engler i sneen", written by Ole Paus and later released in an English version on Danko/Fjeld/Andersen]. ...show more

Since he started in music almost 40 years ago, Jonas Fjeld has done everything from crazy comedy to heartfelt love ballads, from rough contry rock to successful variety theatre with [Norwegian poet, writer and singer] Ole Paus. Jonas Fjeld has seduced his listeners with an inspiration that comes from deep inside the roots of his heart and spreads like warm vibrations to the surroundings. Jonas Fjeld, 2006 From Texas to [central Oslo area] Grunerløkka, the melancholic and passionate Jonas Fjeld draws a landscape that is his and his alone. A landscape that may be dark as the river running his through his home town of Drammen, but also light as the tracks in the snow after the angels have raised up and flown away [a reference to the song "Angels in the Snow"/ "Engler i sneen", written by Ole Paus and later released in an English version on Danko/Fjeld/Andersen].

There is a rare intensity in his interpretation of lyrics. He conquers them and makes them his own. Big enough for him, and big enough for us [referring to Fjeld's brilliant 1989 album Svært nok for meg (Big/Tough Enough for Me)]. Jonas Fjeld [aka Terje Jensen] started his career listening to the radio and records as a child in Drammen.

At the age of 14 he did his first public performance with a friend at the local church. Naming themselves You and Me, they sang the Monkeys' "I'm a Believer" for an unsually believing audience. Inpired by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Jonas started his studies of flute playing. At an early stage he played the flute in Norwegian radio and later joined more or less local bands like the Ivy Group, Frosk [Frog], Kristoffer Børs and finally the group that gave him his artist name, inspired by a hero from a string of classic Norwegian detective stories, the Jonas Fjeld Rock'n Rolf Band. ...show less