Date of birth: September, 14, 1959
 Place of birth: Kongsberg, Norway
 Height: 182sm (5'11'')
Hair: dark blonde
Eyes: blue
Father: Reidar - director of medicine
Has 3 brothers (Gunvald, Kjetil, Haakon and sister (Ingunn)
Family: he was married to Swedish acress Camilla Malmqvist (1989-1998)
 Has two sons Jacob (1989) and Jonathan(1990) and two daughters:

Tomine (1993) and Henny (2003 with Anne Mette Undlien)
Voice range: 5 octaves
Timbres: baritone, tenor, falcetto

Morten Harket was born on September 14, 1959 in Kongsberg. He was second born to a family that would come to include four boys and sister. The father, Reidar, comes from Vennesla and is now a chief physician/director of medicine. His mother, Henny, comes form  Skien and is a newly educated home economics teacher after having been a stay-at-home mother for many years. The family moved to   Heggedal in Asker when Morten was five years old, but moved soon again to Gullhella in the same county. Morten's parents are personally Christian and active in chuch work.

Consequently, Morten grew up under a religious influence. Morten has needed security because life has not only treated him carefully. Morten's first big musical experience was in Kongsberg when he was three years old. He heard a local band play. With his sensitive l disposition, he took it all in - the intense music, the uniforms, the rhythm. He felt a kind of pillar of power bolt down his spine, (and) an roaring feeling in his chest. He laughed and cried in turns and entered into the music to such a degree that the band conductor responded (to him). He took Morten up onto his shoulders and let him conduct the band together with him. The whole of the little three-year-old's body was 'on fire.' Morten's father is musically gifted and chose between a classical pianist career and medical studies. Morten received piano lessons from the time he was a young boy but he didn't like the authoritarian style (of the lessons). Han practiced little and didn't learn the notes. But he composed and play with the instrument feely and with relish - without anything more coming from it than that his teacher gave up! Morten managed to live happily ignorant of pop music all the way to the summer before he was to begin high school. It was then that Jimi Hendrix and Uriah Heep changed his life.

"At that time I was collecting butterflies and cultivating orchids. I was completely besotted with this. Then I got a collection of Uriah

Heep records, and after that, there was only one band in the whole world! I immediately started my own band together with my brother, Haakon  (note from Ingerid: the co-author of Saa blaaser det paa jorden and the second youngest of the five children). I thought we were the only band in the whole of Norway. Completely genuinely - I had no idea there were other bands. In that band, I felt music as something theatrical, bombastic. The music entered me, and I sang. I could go for hours without any idea of where I was. It was unbelievable. I will wager that it beats every possible drug trip. Only the strongest lovemaking has something of the same strength." Morten was lead singer in a number of bands. "Soldier blue" was among of them. Morten Harket wanted to be a priest, but stopped his studies at the Theological Faculty. Together with Magne Furuholmen and Paal Waaktaar, he created the group a-ha in 1982. The video for 'Take on Me' took a-ha to the top of the Billboard charts in the USA, the first Norwegian group ever. Extensive tours and new hits established  a-ha as a big name in pop and rock.(To read about a-ha history go to the A-ha official site ) In 1994-1998 a-ha took a break but came back in 2000 and released 2 albums since then ("Minor Earth, Major Sky", 2000 and "Lifelines", 2002 - both have a success in Europe).

Morten Harket is now well underway with his own solo career, and is writing both the music and some of the lyrics himself. He released three solo albums and a number of singles. By nature Harket is an artistic type, with interests that range from drawing and painting to orchids,butterflies, music and cars."
 

Morten Harket is owner of unique 5 octaves range voice.He was awarded by Best european vocalist title in the 80s