Gro Anita Schønn

January 28, 1950 - April 24, 2001.

Norwegian artist born in Drammen Norway, but originally from Røyken in Buskerud.

She started her career at the age of 16 with the band Sandie And The Shakeman together with friends in Røyken. She debuted under her own name in 1967 and broke through with the song "En Enkel Sang Om Frihet" (A Simple Song Of Freedom) by Bobby Darin in 1970.

Her career took a downfall when she in 1976 announced in a newspaper interview that she planned to do a tour in South Africa, but after much negative press since the international boycott of the Apartheid regime was massive she eventually canceled the tour. She kept her career afloat with a few collaboration on theater musicals and Grand Prix contest but withdrew completely from the industry in 1981.

She lived a reclusive life until Pneumonia claimed her life in 2001, only 51 years old.

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