Tenfjord was born on 9 January 1997 to a Norwegian mother and a Greek father.[4][5][6] According to her own statements, she was born in
Ioannina, Greece,[7] but this is contradicted by a reliable secondary source which states that she was born in the Central Hospital of
Møre og Romsdal in
Ålesund, Norway.[4] She was baptised in
Vatne in October 1998.[1]
Tenfjord lived her first years in Ioannina, before she and her family moved to
Tennfjord in Norway.[8][9][10] She attended Fagerlia videregående skole in Ålesund (at the same time as another singer,
Sigrid).[11] In 2015, she moved to
Trondheim to study
medicine at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[8] In 2019, she announced that she had put her studies on hold to focus on her musical career.[12]
Career
Tenfjord started taking piano lessons at the age of five.[8] Tenfjord's song "Run" won the Music Prize in 2015 and appeared in an advertising video for Personskadeforbundet LTN in 2014.[13] In 2016, she participated in the music competition The Stream on
TV 2, where she was placed among the top 30 participants.[14] In 2019, she appeared in a programme on
NRK P3 with the song "Let Me Think", and performed at the music festival Trondheim Calling.[15][16][17] Tenfjord has also toured with the Norwegian band
Highasakite.[18] Tenfjord was awarded the Haram Municipality Youth Culture Prize in 2019.[19] On 15 December 2021, she was announced as the Greek representative for the
Eurovision Song Contest 2022 where she finished eighth out of twenty-five.[20][21]
Tenfjord was the opening act for
Madrugada in September 2022 at the
Panathenaic Stadium in
Athens. Tenfjord received a price of honour from both the county governor in
Epirus, Alexandros Kaxrimanis, and from the Major of
Ioannina, Moisis (Moses) Elisaf, for her contribution for Greece in Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
On October 21, 2022 she released her debut album 'In Hindsight', featuring 13 songs.
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ab"Fødte; Sentralsjukehuset i Møre og Romsdal" [Born; Central Hospital of Møre og Romsdal]. Sunnmørsposten (in Norwegian Nynorsk).
National Library of Norway. 11 January 1997. p. 15. Retrieved 13 March 2022. 9. januar: Ei jente, Greta Tenfjord og Konstantinos Georgiadis, Tennfjord. [9 January: A girl, Greta Tenfjord and Konstantinos Georgiadis, Tennfjord.]
^"Artistslipp! 7 sterke til Trondheim Calling 2019". Trondheim Calling (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 February 2021. Blant artister som allerede er bekreftet finner vi 19 demoartister der flere spiller sin første konsert, og mer etablerte artister som The Dogs, Karin Park og dePresno. I tillegg kommer tidligere demoartister tilbake som headlinere, blant annet Pom Poko, The Fjords og Amanda Tenfjord.