Finn Coren: key obituary facts
Is Finn Coren dead? Yes. Finn Coren died on November 11, 2026, at age 65.
Cause of death: Finn Coren's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Finn Coren known for?
He was a Norwegian singer, songwriter.
More about Finn Coren
Born: 28 March 1961.
Place of birth: Herøy Municipality.
Gender: male.
Occupation: musician, songwriter.
Nationality: Norway.
Finn Coren, the Norwegian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, died November 11, 2026, aged 65.
Born in Herøy Municipality on March 28, 1961, he became known for albums that set poetry by William Blake, W. B.
Yeats and Olav H. Hauge to music. His debut, The Echoing Green, consisted of songs he wrote and composed; its title came from Blake. Coren’s second album, Love’s Loneliness, appeared in 1990 and drew on Yeats’s sequence “Words for Music, Perhaps.” He later released two albums setting Blake’s words to music, in 1997 and 1998. Cancer temporarily halted his career, but he returned in 2008 with a double album devoted to Hauge. Titled I draumar fær du, it was his first album in Norwegian and the opening release in a series focused on Nordic poets. In 2011, Coren released Mitt hjerte, which set poems and other texts by Norwegian poet, novelist and screenwriter Jens Bjørneboe. Across these projects, his work brought together songwriting and musical interpretations of poetry from Norway and beyond.