Ina Wroldsen
Quick Facts
Biography
Ina Wroldsen (born 28 May 1984) is a Norwegian singer/songwriter. She is half of the electropop duo Ask Embla, with fellow Icelandic producer and songwriter Arnthor Birgisson. Wroldsen lives in London.
Career
Wroldsen's career started solely as an artist, but soon turned to writing music for others. As a songwriter, she has had great success, and today, she is internationally considered one of the most sought after in her field. She has won several BMI/ASCAP awards for her work, among BRIT award and Spellemannprisen nominations. Her songs have been used by the likes of Calvin Harris, Shakira, Jess Glynne, Clean Bandit, Sean Paul, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, Tinie Tempah, Tinashe, Anne-Marie, The Pussycat Dolls, Shontelle, James Arthur, Leona Lewis, Little Mix, The Saturdays and One Direction.
In recent years, Ina has also taken up an artist career. As part of Scandinavian duo "Ask Embla", together with Icelandic born, Arnthor Birgisson. They, in 2013, released the album Northern Lights, in Norway, where it was one of most downloaded/streamed album that year. She has since continued her artist career under its own name. She released "Aliens (Her Er Jeg)" (2014), "Rebels" (2015) and in April 2016 "Lay It On Me". The latter was released as a collaboration with the Norwegian producer duo Broiler and quickly climbed to No. 2 on both Spotify and VG-Lista.
In 2015, Calvin Harris & The Disciples chose to release Ina's song "How Deep Is Your Love" using her vocals. This was one of the year's most streamed/downloaded/played songs worldwide.
In 2016 she was the featured vocalist on various worldwide acclaimed DJ’s records, including Sigma and the latest Martin Solveig single “PLACES”.
Ina has in the last year also made her mark as a judge in the Norwegian version of Idol. .
Since 2013, the publishing interest of Ina Wroldsen’s catalog has been represented by Reverb Music/Reservoir Media Management.
Discography
- Bold indicates her own vocals.
Year | Artist | Album | Song | Co-writers |
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2017 | Tinie Tempah feat. Tinashe | Youth | "Text From Your Ex" | Jax Jones, Tinie Tempah |
2016 | Anne-Marie | TBA | "Alarm" | Steve Mac, Wayne Hector, Anne-Marie Nicholson |
Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie | TBA | "Rockabye" | Steve Mac, Ammar Malik, Sean Paul | |
Ina Wroldsen & Broiler | Lay It On Me | "Lay It On Me" | Arnthor Birgisson, Broiler | |
Sofia Carson | TBA | "Love is The Name" | Steve Mac, Ewald Pfleger, Günter Grasmuck, Peter Niklas, Gruber Herwig Tremschnig, Kurt Plisnier | |
Anna Naklab | Whole | "Whole" | TMS, Wayne Hector | |
Ina Wroldsen | Mary's Story | "Mary's Story" | Steve Mac | |
Olly Murs | 24 Hrs | "Flaws" | Steve Robson, Olly Murs, Coffee, Jr. | |
"Better Without You" | ||||
Martin Solveig | N/A | "Places" | Featured vocalist | |
Ina Wroldsen | St. Peter | "St. Peter" | N/A | |
2015 | Calvin Harris and Disciples | N/A | "How Deep Is Your Love" | Uncredited vocalist |
Ina Wroldsen | Rebels | "Rebels" | Jarrad Rogers | |
Sigma | Life | "Feels Like Home" | Featured vocalist | |
Demi Lovato | Confident | "Lionheart" | Steve Mac | |
Jess Glynne | I Cry When I Laugh | "Hold My Hand" | Jess Glynne, Jack Paterson, Jin Jin | |
Jasmine Thompson | Adore | "Adore" | Steve Mac, Paul Gendler | |
Fleur East | Love, Sax and Flashbacks | "Like That" | Fraser T Smith, Fleur East | |
Chris Loco | See No Evil (EP) | "Human" | Featured vocalist | |
2014 | Adelén | N/A | "Always On My Mind" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi |
One Love, One Rhythm – The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album | "Olé" | |||
Girls' Generation-TTS | Holler | "Adrenaline" | Lucas Secon, Mich Hansen, Jonas Jeberg | |
BoA | Who's Back? | "Close To Me" | N/A | |
Maude Harcheb | #HoldUp | "Hold Up" | Mich Hansen, Jonas Jeberg | |
Baby Blue | Bump | "Bump" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi | |
Ina Wroldsen | Aliens (Her Er Jeg) | "Aliens" | Steve Mac | |
Cher Lloyd | Sorry I'm Late | "Bind Your Love" | Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk, Shellback | |
"Sirens" | Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk | |||
Sanna Nielsen | 7 | "Breathe" | David Kreuger, Per Magnusson | |
"Rainbow" | ||||
Professor Green feat. Tori Kelly | Growing Up In Public | "Lullaby" | Chris Loco, Stephen Manderson | |
Aneta Sablik | The One | "You Make Me Whole" | Tom Barnes, Ben Kohn, Peter Kelleher, Wayne Hector, James Reynolds | |
Shakira | Shakira | "Empire" | Steve Mac | |
2013 | Adelén | N/A | "Bombo" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi |
N/A | "Baila Conmigo" | |||
James Arthur | Recovery | "Recovery" | Tiago Carvalho, James Arthur | |
Rebecca Ferguson | Freedom | "My Best" | Tom Barnes, Ben Kohn, Peter Kelleher, Rebecca Ferguson | |
Ask Embla | Northern Light | "Fathers Eyes" | Arnthor Birgisson | |
"I Fell In Love" | ||||
"Cry Baby" | ||||
"Winter" | ||||
"Writings on the Wall" | ||||
"Crashing Down" | ||||
"Wires" | ||||
"Einn" | ||||
"Northern Light (Ida's Dans)" | ||||
"September" | ||||
"The Haunting" | ||||
"Grave" | ||||
"Children" | ||||
Inna | Party Never Ends | "In Your Eyes" | Steve Mac | |
"We Like to Party" | Wayne Hector | |||
"J'Adore" | Inna, Sebastian Barac, Marcel Botezan, Radu Bolfea | |||
"Dame tu amor (feat. Reik) [Spanish Version]" | N/A | |||
"Light It Up (feat. Reik) [English Version]" | ||||
Madison Beer | N/A | "Melodies" | Tom Barnes, Ben Kohn, Peter Kelleher | |
Wanessa | DNA Tour - Ao Vivo | "Messiah" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi | |
"Shine It On" | ||||
2012 | Cover Drive | Bajan Style | "Twilight" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi, Karen Reifer, Thomas-Ray Armstrong, Jamar Harding |
Tone Damli | N/A | "Look Back" | David Eriksen | |
One Direction | One Thing - Single | "I Should Have Kissed You" | Steve Robson | |
Leona Lewis | Glassheart | "Come Alive" | Fraser T Smith | |
James Arthur | James Arthur | "Impossible" | Arnthor Birgisson | |
Mandy Capristo | Grace | "Hurricane" | David Eriksen | |
JLS | Evolution | "I Like It" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi, Aston Merrygold, Jonathan Gill, Marvin Humes, Oritsé Williams | |
Little Mix | DNA | "We Are Who We Are" | Steve Mac, Wayne Hector | |
The Wanted | The Word of Mouth | "I Found You" | Steve Mac, Wayne Hector | |
2011 | Cobra Starship feat. Sabi | Night Shades | "You Make Me Feel..." | Steve Mac |
Dionne Bromfield | Good for the Soul | "A Little Love" | Bromfield, Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi | |
Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Make a Scene | "Synchronised" | Fred Ball | |
Melanie C | The Sea | "Weak" | Jez Ashurst, Melanie Chisholm | |
The Saturdays | On Your Radar | "Notorious" | Steve Mac | |
"Faster" | ||||
"My Heart Takes Over" | ||||
"White Lies" | Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub | |||
Britney Spears | Femme Fatale (Deluxe Edition) | "He About to Lose Me" | Rodney Jerkins | |
2010 | Alexandra Burke | Overcome (Deluxe Edition) | "Before The Rain" | Steve Mac |
Tone Damli | Cocool | "I Love You" | N/A | |
Leona Lewis | I Got You - Single | "Heartbeat" | Arnthor Birgisson, Leona Lewis | |
N-Dubz | Love.Live.Life | "Scream My Name" | N-Dubz, B. Reckless, N. Walka, M. Gousse, Z. Anderson | |
"Love Sick" | P. Ighile, K. Abrahams, D. Warde | |||
The Saturdays | Headlines! | "Higher" | Arnthor Birgisson | |
"Karma" | Steve Mac | |||
Shontelle | No Gravity | "Impossible" | Arnthor Birgisson | |
Tinchy Stryder feat. Alexis Jordan | Third Strike | "Together" | Kwasi Danquar, Fraser T Smith | |
Voe | N/A | "Don't Talk to Me" | David Eriksen, Thomas Eriksen | |
2009 | Natalie Bassingthwaighte | 1000 Stars | "Not For You" | Chris Braide |
"Turn The Lights On" | ||||
Tone Damli | I Know | "Here I Am (You Got Me)" | N/A | |
Jade Ewen | N/A | "My Man" | ||
Sarah Kreuz | One Moment In Time | "Broken Ground" | N/A | |
Leona Lewis | Echo | "My Hands" | Arnthor Birgisson | |
Pixie Lott | Turn It Up | "Gravity" | Jonas Jeberg, Mich Hansen, Lucas Secon | |
The Saturdays | Wordshaker | "Ego" | Steve Mac | |
"No One" | David Eriksen, Thomas Eriksen | |||
"One Shot" | David Kreuger, Per Magnusson | |||
"Wordshaker" | David Eriksen | |||
"Denial" | Chris Braide | |||
"Open Up" | David Kreuger, Per Magnusson | |||
"Not Good Enough" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi | |||
"Deeper" | Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White, Rochelle Wiseman | |||
"2 AM" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi | |||
2008 | Pussycat Dolls | Doll Domination | "Hush Hush; Hush Hush" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi, Nicole Scherzinger |
The Saturdays | Chasing Lights | "If This Is Love" | Vince Clarke, Alison Moyet, Joe Belmaati, Mich Hansen, John *Reid, Remee | |
"Up" | Andreas Romdhane, Josef Larossi | |||
"Keep Her" | David Eriksen, Thomas Eriksen | |||
"Lies" | ||||
"Work" | Harry Sommerdahl, Kalle Engström | |||
"Chasing Lights" | Chris Braide | |||
"Set Me Off" | David Eriksen, Thomas Eriksen | |||
"Fall" | Andre Lindal | |||
2007 | Maria Arredondo | For a Moment | "If You Could Only See Me" | N/A |