Lauren Savoy Informations

Lauren Savoy is an American composer, director and writer. She is married to Paul Waaktaar-Savoy from the band a-ha. In 1999 they had a son together.

The a-ha song "Angel In The Snow" was written for Savoy by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and he played it to her on their wedding day. He was too shy to make a speech, so he wrote a song instead.

Upon graduation from the London Film School, Lauren started directing music videos and commercials. She has original songs in the movie "Hawaii, Oslo" as well as "A Night at Mcool's."

In 1995, Savoy and her husband formed the band "Savoy" with drummer Frode Unneland. Lauren is credited as co-writer on all Savoy albums.

Lauren appeared on the a-ha track "You'll Never Get Over Me" from the album Minor Earth Major Sky, providing backing vocals. She also has co-writing credits on a-ha songs, including "Between Your Mama and Yourself", "Cold River" and "The Sun Never Shone That Day".

Lauren directed the short film "Scent of a Woman" which appeared in many festivals and won "Best of Fest" at the Broad Humor short festival as well as the audience favorite at DC shorts and Holly shorts film festivals. She directed the documentary "A-ha live in South America" as well as several music videos and commercials. Among her videos are:

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