User:Lilduff90/Randi Karin Rusten

Randi Karin Rusten (born December 11, 1975, in Sandvoll, Norway) is a Norwegian country music artist.

Biograhy
Rusten was born in 1975 to Steinar Rusten and Rita Skålevik. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother later remarried. She is the oldest of two children, and also has a younger half brother from her mothers second marriage. According to family, she began singing at very young age, but never took it seriously. In 2004, she joined the local band Pearl as lead singer, and toured with them for several years. In 2007, on the insistance of the bands manager, Per Ove Kviteberg, she entered the studio to record her first album, alongside several professional studio musicians. The resulting album, Heartfelt Country, was released later that same year, and entered the Norwegian music charts as number twelve in early 2008, which was its highest charting. In June 2012, the album was re-released digitally on Spotify, with a pending iTunes release.

Rusten lives in Høylandsbygd, Norway, with her husband and two children. She suffers from multiple sclerosis, which she was diagnosed with in early age.

Discography

 * 2007: Heartfelt Country (NOR: 12)