In spite of her young age, Marion Raven has been a recording-artist for over 17 years. It all started at the age of 10 when she released an album with children songs on EMI Norway with her friend Marit Larsen. The album even ended up being nominated for a Norwegian Grammy. At the age of 14 Marion and Marit, now under the name “M2M”, signed with Atlantic Records and had big success in the US, Asia, South America and Scandinavia. They released 2 albums that sold over 2 million copies.
In 2005 Marion Raven released her first solo album on Atlantic Records in the US with success in countries like Japan where her song “Break You” was #1 for weeks.
In the summer of 2006 Meat Loaf released the song “It´s all coming back to me now” from his album Bat out of Hell 3, where Marion was his duet partner. She toured with both Meat Loaf and Pink around the world in 2007. In the fall of 2010 Marion was a judge on the Norwegian “X Factor” and 2011 she appeared as Norwegian “Idol” judge. Winter 2013 she is one out of seven artists on the Norwegian TV-success “Hver gang vi møtes”.
April the same year Marion released her 2nd solo album, “Songs from A Blackbird”. This album went to #3 on the Norwegian sales chart, the 2 singles “The Minute” and “Driving” raved the radio stations for months and Marion toured Norway for her first live solo tour. June 10th 2014 Marion releases her new single “In Dreams” in Norway. This song is from the upcoming album “Scandal” that is set for release September 22nd in Norway.
An international version of "Song from A Blackbird" is set for release world wide on digital platforms (download/streaming) August 8th 2014. Germany, Switzerland and Austria will release the album physically (CD/LP) the same day. Physical release date for other countries will be announced later.
First single out is "The Minute" and release date is July 25th 2014.