Girl In Red

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About
Marie Ulvein Ringham, known by her stage name Girl In Red (stylized in all lowercase) is a Indie-pop singer from Norway. She was born February 16, 1999.

Early Life
She was born in Horten, Norway. She grew up with sisters and her parents were divorced. In a interview with Triple J she says her opinion on the town is that it was pretty boring there. Her mom worked with technology and her dad was a policeman. Her grandfather knew piano but she didn't grow up with any instruments in her house. At 14 years old she was introduced to songwriting and the guitar, she thanks her grandfather for introducing her.

"I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend/Soundcloud" (2015-2017)
She first released music under the name "Lydia X", she released Norweigan music to sound cloud. She got her stage name "Girl In Red" after an attempt to identify herself in one crowd to one of her friends by a text. She decided to use that stage name and release music under "Girl In Red". In 2016, she published the single "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend." The single blew up in a few months.

Chapter 1/Chapter 2 (2018-2019)
Her singles "summer depression" and "girls" gained a lot of views online. She won a "Norwegian Music Of The Year" award in 2018. After the release of Marie's debut EP, Chapter 1, on 14 September 2018. "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend" was listed at number 9 on The New York Times list of "The 68 Best Songs of 2018". Marie opened for another indie pop singer called Clairo in Dublin and Paris in September 2018 and released "We Fell in Love in October" in November 2018 which peaked at 14 on the US Rock Charts in October 2019. In October 2018, the song "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend" won "Årets Urørt" at the P3 Gull awards. She performed the song as an interval act at the award ceremony in 2018, alongside names like Astrid S, Dagny, and Emilie Nicolas. Marie embarked on her first North American tour supporting Conan Gray in March 2019. She released her second EP, Chapter 2, as well as Beginnings, a compilation of her entire single catalogue into one exclusively vinyl album on September 6, 2019 under AWAL in September 2019. She embarked on her first international headlining "World in Red" tour in October 2019, performing in cities such as Dublin and San Francisco.

In November 2019, announced that Girl in Red would be leading their Hype List of 2020, meaning that she will be making her first ever front cover appearance in December 2019. Marie was nominated for "Newcomer of the Year" at the 2019 P3 Gull awards.

World in Red (2020-Present)
She told Billboard and NME that she aims to be releasing her debut album, World in Red around October 2020. The non-album single, "Midnight Love" was released in April 2020, when Marie told NME, "[the COVID-19 pandemic] ain't gonna stop World In Red, baby!" In May 2020, Marie was included in the annual Dazed 100 list after her single "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend" clocked 150 million streams. In late August, Marie released "Rue" as the lead single off of her upcoming debut studio album. In November, she released "two queens in a king sized bed" as the second single off of her upcoming debut studio album. The album also has been renamed to If I Could Make It Go Quiet, and will be released on April 30, 2021.

Tours
Headlining


 * The World in Red Tour (2019)

Supporting


 * Fall Tour (2018) (Clairo)
 * The Sunset Shows (2018–19) (Conan Gray)

Trivia

 * In mid 2020, she became a popular symbol of queer identification on the online platform TikTok, where users would adopt the common phrase, "Do you listen to Girl in Red?".
 * She is part of the LGBTQIA+ Community and is lesbian
 * girl in red made the front cover of both Gay Times and Dork in December 2019, as well as the cover of NME in January 2020
 * . She provided the single "Kate's Not Here" for the original soundtrack of the 2020 supernatural horror film The Turning.
 * She has a website called world in red.
 * Her zodiac sign is an Aquarius.