About Vaarin
Vaarin grew up in an old soulful house one hour away from Oslo, in a town called Hokksund. With a musically inclined family Vaarin would often sit down and write songs and melodies after school with her father. At the early age of 14 she produced a CD titled So Far with one of the songs featured on her first album Even If I Started Seeing Rainbows.
Since then she has contributed with opening acts for Aurora, Hellbillies, Bel Canto, Thomas Dybdahl and Fay Wildhagen, held her own concerts at the Norwegian embassy in Berlin and at the OverOslo festival at Grefsenkollen in 2018 and released a total of three albums.
Her latest album Heading Home is a tribute to her upbringing and was written on the train back home from the busy city life. Drawn from the reminiscence of her roots, childhood, and long-held memories, the album captures the longing to feel at home as an adult.
"Vaarin sings absolutely fabulously throughout Heading Home, which is her best album. So far!"
- Jon Vidar Bergan (Musikk Nyheter 14.03.2025)
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FAQs
Which artists inspires you the most?
Strong textualized voices, painters of emotion and identity in storytelling inspires me. My heroes are many, but some examples are Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Radka Toneff, Tori Amos, Björk and Thom Yorke.
How would you describe your own music?
For me it’s a planet. A different world with nuances of everything I’ve experienced in my life and I tell it through sound. My music is the soundtrack of my life. My life is heavy with intense earnestness and it flows through my voice and out on paper. If I have to give you a description of my music I would say it's filled with different colors of melancholy and contains the duality of both being heavy and light at the time.
Where would you say is the perfect place to listen to your songs?
I would say on the train or a bike ride around a park, waterfront og skyline view. Both city lights and nature would work. Or something more intimate and personal; at home with candles lit by your fireplace with no distractions. And of course, the most reasonable answer; at my show in a beautiful old church.
Why do you make music?
It’s like eating food for me, it’s like a general need that I have to write songs and sing them. It’s like a purpose or a function I feel I have to use. The music I make is a description of what I feel that day, that year, that moment – I never know what tomorrow’s song will sound like. I am a person who likes to search and wonder about meaning and the existential questions and in music I get the space to search and feel.
