Hella was born in 1975 on the island Radøy near Bergen, in picturesque Western Norway. She loved music already as a toddler and played her grandmother’s electronic home organ for hours on end. As a teen, she took her first vocal lessons and sang in a youth band somewhere between punk and grunge. Later she developed her voice autodidactically, far beyond the classical sound she had studied until then. Instead she was driven by a fascination for various traditional styles...