Solveig Leithaug

Solveig Leithaug
(pronounced Sol-vey Light-houg)

Dove Award-winning recording artist, Solveig Leithaug, is known all over the world for her gentle-yet-powerful gift for communicating a song. This gifted singer-songwriter and masterful guitar player from Norway has been recording and performing internationally for thirty years. With fourteen solo recordings and three best-selling children’s recordings to her credit, Solveig consistently breaks new ground with each release as she allows life’s joys and challenges to refine her spiritually and artistically.

Gospel music icon Gloria Gaither says this about her newest release:
"From a lullaby to faraway children she can't tuck in at night to a tribute to a loved one on the slow Alzheimer's journey who can only be present "when she plays" the piano, Solveig's FINDING HOME gently opens all the closed places of the heart with her melted butter voice. Peace and pathos dance together all through this amazing collection of songs of comfort and courage."

Raised in a musical family where faith and the arts were central, Solveig was still a high school student in Norway when she released her debut solo recording of all original song. That recording promptly launched her onto the Scandinavian gospel music scene, and she has since performed around the world in no less than seventeen countries as a bilingual solo artist with a unique capacity for connecting with live audiences of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life. She was an original member of the wildly successful Oslo Gospel Choir, a choir that went on to sell 1.5 million recordings.

Brilliantly blending heart and art, Solveig performs at a wide variety of venues and events. She has served as a guest artist at official Parliament functions, national conferences, international television broadcasts, cathedrals, prisons and inner-city outreach events. She is featured on the Billboard chart-topping Gaither Homecoming Series and her live performance of “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” was featured on the Gaither Homecoming DVD entitled How Great Thou Art and her original song "Everything Has Its Season" on the DVD "Women Of Homecoming Volume 1".



Discography:

NORWEGIAN PRODUCTIONS
1985 Askepott (Storm Production)
1988 Lys i eit vindu (God Musikk)
1993 Mi stjerne (Mudi Records)
1994 Vindens veg (Mudi Records)
1995 Min båt er så liten'(Children's CD/DVD) (Lynor AS)
1996 Hvem er jungelens konge? (Children's CD) (Lynor AS)
1998 Deilig er den himmel blå (Children's CD/DVD) (Lynor AS)
2004 Tilbe Deg (Mudi Records)
2006 Fagert er landet (Mudi Records)
2008 Julefred (Mudi Records)
2012 Klassikere (Mudi Records)

ENGLISH PRODUCTIONS
1986 In the World (Day Spring, WORD)
1988 First Step (Day Spring, WORD)
1995 The Way of the Wind (Simple Saints Music)
2000 Surrender (Simple Saints Music)
2006 Worship You (Authentic Records, London)
2009 Christmas Peace (Kingsway, London)
2013 Finding Home (Apple Cake Records)
2017 Time (Apple Cake Records)
2019 Riverside - Hymns & Spiritual Songs (Apple Cake Records)


Contributing writer to publications such as Gaither Homecoming Magazine, Homecoming Bible (Thomas Nelson), and Women of Destiny Bible (Thomas Nelson).
Founding board member Compassion Nordic.
Artist Advocate for Compassion International and Stefanusalliansen (Stefanus Alliance International,
a Norwegian mission and human rights organization, with special focus on Freedom of Religion and Belief (FORB)
Publishing: Arctic Blue, ASCAP. Admin. in North America by Music Services and elsewhere by TONO.
Member: NOPA, (Norwegian Composer's Society) and TONO, ASCAP.
Original member Oslo Gospel Choir
Department of A.C.T. International
Booking/ Management: Chaffee Management Group

AWARDS:
GMA's Dove Award as "International Artist of the Year".
Årets artist/ "Artist of the Year" by the magazine Treff, Norway.
Fyrlysprisen (The Lighthouse Award), Lifetime Achievement Recognition 2018
Silver Telly Award
Angel Award
Gold Records for "Min båt er så liten" and "Hvem er jungelens konge?"