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Sampda Sharma (born 1979), better known by her stage name Samsaya, is a Norwegian singer and actress.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Norway
- Active from
- 1979
Discography
- Shedding Skin2004
- Jaywalking (Remixes)2011
- Stereotype2013
- Samsaya2014
- Bombay Calling2015
- ADHD Love Me Not
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- Listeners
- 16,958
- Total plays
- 126,651
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Samsaya (born Sampda Sharma) is a Norwegian singer and actress. As a child, she lived in India with her Sri-Lankan-Indian family; and moved to Oslo, Norway when she was 11 months old. She felt like she didn't fit in with her surroundings, and her parents weren't happy with her having Norwegian friends. Therefore, she used music - rap specifically - as an escape path, and would record her own music on tapes in her bedroom. She cites Dinah Washington's Mad About the Boy as the song that influenc
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Sampda Sharma (born 1979), better known by her stage name Samsaya, is a Norwegian singer and actress.
==Background== Samsaya was born Sampda Sharma in Hamirpur to a Norwegian father and an Indian mother, Aruna Sharma, in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. She lived in India with her family and moved to Norway at the age of only eleven months. She grew up on Ellingsrud in Oslo and went to Ellingsrudåsen skole and played football.
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