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Erlend Øye is a Norwegian composer, musician, producer, singer and songwriter from Bergen, best known for being part, together with Eirik Glambek Bøe, of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience. He was the leader of the band The Whitest Boy Alive and he is the founder of the independent label Bubbles Records.

Erlend Øye was born on 21 November 1975 in Bergen. Grown up listening to Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths, during the high-school in the middle of '90s, he formed together with some friends the band Skog ("forest" in Norwegian), taking inspiration from the famous song A Forest by The Cure. In 1996 he joined the band Peachfuzz as electric guitarist, playing several times in London between 1996 and 1998.