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Trond Bersu

Norwegian drummer and producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ21284610
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Trond Bersu (born 4 January 1984 in Skjåk Municipality, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer and producer.

Career

During his music studies on the jazz program at the Trondheim musikkonservatorium Bersu started the band PELbO together with fellow students Ine Hoem and Kristoffer Lo. Their self titled debut album was nominated for the 2010 Open class Spellemannprisen. The second album release was Days of Transcendence (2011).

In Trondheim, he also collaborated with another fellow student Ingrid Helene Håvik and later on when established in Oslo, they started the band Highasakite together. Their debut album All That Floats Will Rain (2012) was well received and was nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the 2012 Spellemannprisen. The next album Silent Treatment received Pop Group of the Year at the 2014 Spellemannprisen.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2010, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-01-04. The account is most persuasive where Trond, Bersu and Norwegian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Trond Bersu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.