The following is a list of musicians who have toured and or recorded with the Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha, which was founded in Oslo in 1982 by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (guitars and vocals), Magne Furuholmen (keyboards, guitars and vocals), and Morten Harket (lead vocals). Current touring musicians include drummer Karl-Oluf Wennerberg & programmer/keyboardist Erik Ljunggren (both of whom first joined in 2009) and bassist Even Ormestad (since 2015). Former members have included Leif Karsten Johansen, Mike Sturgis, Randy Hope-Taylor, Matthew Letley, Per Hillestad, Per Lindvall and Sven Lindvall.[1]
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions | |
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| Karl-Oluf Wennerberg[2] | |||||
| Erik Ljunggren | |||||
| Even Ormestad | 2015–present[3] [4] | ||||
| Kjetil Bjerkestrand | on occasion |
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
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| Lindsay Elliott | 1985[5] | drums | "Take on Me" music video, Top of the Pops, "The Sun Always Shines on TV" music video | |
| Gina Schock | 1986 | US TV appearances on American Bandstand, Soul Train and Solid Gold.[6] | ||
| Mike Sturgis[7] | 1986–1987[8] | Scoundrel Days (1986) | ||
| Leif Karsten Johansen | ||||
| keyboards | none | |||
| Ian Wherry[9] | 1988–1989[10] | |||
| Randy Hope-Taylor[11] | bass | Stay on These Roads (1988) | ||
| Rafael Gayol [12] | percussion | none | ||
| Matthew Letley[13] | drums | |||
| Per Hillestad[14] | 1990–1994[15] [16] [17] | |||
| Jørun Bøgeberg[18] | ||||
| Sigurd Køhn | 1991–1994 | saxophone | none | |
| Øivind Madsen | 1994 [19] | bass | ||
| 2000–2007[20] [21] [22] | ||||
| drums | ||||
| Christer Karlsson | ||||
| Anneli Drecker | 2000–2002 [23] | |||
| 2002 | none | |||
| 2006 [24] | bass | |||
| Tini Flaat Mykland | 2016 | backing vocals | ||
| 2017–2018[25] | ||||
| Morten Qvenild | keyboards | |||
| Madeleine Ossum | ||||
| Emilie Heldal Lidsheim | MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice (2017) | |||
| Tove Margrethe Erikstad |
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sondre Lerche | 2002 | vocals | Lerche performed with the band on "Locust" at the bands reunion concert in 2002.[26] | |
| Erin Hill | 2008 | harp | Opening act in 2008 in Europe and London and at Royal Albert Hall.[27] | |
| Kygo | 2015 | Kygo performed with the band at The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert on a remixed version on "Take on Me" | ||
| Ian McCulloch | vocals | McCulloch sang on two songs, "The Killing Moon" (by his band, Echo & the Bunnymen) and "Scoundrel Days", with the band at both MTV Unplugged concerts at Øygardshallen (Giske Harbour Hall) on the island of Giske in 2017,[28] [29] as well as at the O2 Arena, London in February 2018 on the same songs.[30] [31] | ||
| Alison Moyet | 2017 | Moyet performed at the MTV Unplugged concert, on the second show, on "Summer Moved On". | ||
| Lissie | Lissie guested on “I’ve Been Losing You” at both MTV Unplugged concerts. | |||
| Ingrid Helene Håvik | Håvik guested on “The Sun Always Shines on TV” at both MTV Unplugged concerts. | |||
| Susanne Sundfør | 2018 | Sundfør performed on "I've Been Losing You" and on "The Sun Always Shines on TV" at the Oslo Spektrum in February 2018.[32] [33] |
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| 1982 – 1985 |
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| 1986 |
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| 1986 – 1987 |
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| 1988 – 1989 |
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| 1991 – 1994 |
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| 2002 – 2007 |
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| 2009 – 2010, 2011 |
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| 2015 – 2016 |
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| 2017 – 2018 |
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| 2019 – present |
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| Image | Name | Years active | live performance / studio session | Release contributions |
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| Hollywood Bowl Orchestra | 2022 | Live performance | Live concert at the Hollywood Bowl | |
| Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra | 2022 | Studio / Live session | Featured on the album True North | |
| Macedonian Radio Symphony Orchestra | 2015 | Studio session | Featured on the album Cold As Stone | |
| Norwegian Radio Orchestra | 2011 | Live performance | Memorial service | |
| Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | 2010 | Live performance | Only one show at the Royal Albert Hall in London and one show at Oslo Konserthus in Oslo | |
| Norwegian Radio Orchestra | 1998, 2001 and 2015 | Live performance | Nobel Peace Price concert | |
| Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Norwegian Radio Orchestra | 2001 | Studio session | Used on recordings on the A-ha album Minor Earth Major Sky | |
| London Philharmonic Orchestra | 1986 | Studio session | On the recording of the music video version of the song Hunting High and Low from the studio album of the same name | |