Who dated Mike Oldfield?

  • Anita Hegerland dated Mike Oldfield from until . The age gap was 7 years, 9 months and 16 days.

Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is a retired English musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield played a range of instruments, which included keyboards and percussion, as well as vocals. He had adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient and new age music. His discography includes 25 studio albums, nine of which have reached the UK top ten.

Oldfield took up the guitar at age ten and left school in his teens to embark on a music career. From 1967 to 1970, he and his sister Sally Oldfield were a folk duo, the Sallyangie, after which he performed with Kevin Ayers before starting work on Tubular Bells in 1971. The album caught the attention of Richard Branson, who agreed to make it the first-ever release on his new label Virgin Records. Its opening was used in the horror film The Exorcist, and the album went on to sell over 2.7 million copies in the UK. Oldfield followed it with Hergest Ridge (1974), Ommadawn (1975) and Incantations (1978). Like Tubular Bells, these albums consist of longform, mostly instrumental pieces.

In the late 1970s, Oldfield began to tour and release more commercial and song-based music, beginning with Platinum (1979), QE2 (1980) and Five Miles Out (1982). His most successful album of this period was Crises (1983), which features the worldwide hit single "Moonlight Shadow," with the vocalist Maggie Reilly. After leaving Virgin and signing with WEA, the 1990s saw him release Tubular Bells II (1992) and Tubular Bells III (1998) among other albums, and he experimented with virtual reality and gaming content with his MusicVR project. In 2012, Oldfield performed at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games held in London, while 2017 saw the release of his final album, Return to Ommadawn. Oldfield's label announced his retirement in 2023.

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Anita Hegerland

Anita Hegerland, née le à Sandefjord, est une chanteuse norvégienne, célèbre lors de son enfance en Suède et en Allemagne, avant de devenir pendant quelques années la compagne et une des chanteuses du musicien britannique Mike Oldfield.

Anita Hegerland devient célèbre en Suède à l'âge de neuf ans grâce à la chanson Mitt sommarlov (Mes vacances d'été) qui est un tube de l'été 1970, puis avec la chanson Trollkarlen Lurifix (« Le magicien Lurifix »).

Elle connaît ensuite son plus grand succès auprès du public allemand en 1971, en chantant en duo avec Roy Black (un chanteur romantique) Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein. Elle participe également à quelques films en Allemagne.

En 1984, elle rencontre le musicien britannique Mike Oldfield, lors du passage à Oslo de la tournée que fait ce dernier consécutivement à son album Discovery. Mike Oldfield la sollicite ensuite comme chanteuse pour son 45 tours Pictures in the Dark en 1985, et elle devient sa nouvelle compagne dans les mois qui suivent. Elle reprend, en public, la partie vocale du titre Moonlight Shadow sorti en 1983 sur l'album Crises.

Elle participe comme chanteuse à plusieurs albums de Mike Oldfield : Islands (1987), Earth Moving (1989) et Heaven's Open (1991). Dans la même période, elle a publié un album solo : Voices.

Le couple se sépare en 1991. Anita Hegerland retourne ensuite vivre en Norvège, avec les deux enfants qu'elle a eu avec le musicien : Greta (1988) et Noah (1990). Elle vit maintenant sur l'île de Nesøya, près d'Oslo, avec le père de son troisième enfant.

Elle parle couramment le norvégien, l'anglais, l'allemand, le suédois, et le danois.

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