Lionheart

Lionheart/Stein Håkon Hilstad is a 24 year old singer/songwriter from Northern Norway. He was born in Mo i Rana, and grew up in a small place called Hilstad, in Rødøy municipality. In 2015, he moved to Nesna, where he studied for 5 years, before moving to Levanger to study Music & Production for one year.
Stein Håkon started playing guitar at the age of 9. He soon bagan taking guitar lessons through music school, and got his first guitar for his 11th birthday. Already at a young age, he started reflecting on life and writing poems, but it was in 2013, at the age of 14, he wrote his very first complete song; &#34;<a href="spotify:track:2zL6rpSrYVeJwSng14DaIq" data-name="Rings of Saturn">Rings of Saturn</a>&#34; - the first track of his debut EP; &#34;<a href="spotify:album:3sj8oVBtNvw624oHLUbW6d" data-name="Sometimes ...">Sometimes ...</a>&#34; Since then, he kept on writing songs. Though, it was not until 2018 he began performing any of them for people - the first time being in his little sister&#39;s confirmation, performing &#34;<a href="spotify:track:5iOwdsqdPrpKMR6Jb4oFQo" data-name="River">River</a>&#34;.
His goal in life is to create something that can help people in the same way other musicians have helped him - to give something back to the world, and contribute with what he knows. With songs about different worlds, journeying the universe, finding your inner call, and how it is to be human, he hopes to inspire people to reach for their own goals.
His greatest influences are <a href="spotify:artist:0gadJ2b9A4SKsB1RFkBb66" data-name="Passenger">Passenger</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1WgXqy2Dd70QQOU7Ay074N" data-name="AURORA">AURORA</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3gd8FJtBJtkRxdfbTu19U2" data-name="Mumford &amp; Sons">Mumford &amp; Sons</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4dwdTW1Lfiq0cM8nBAqIIz" data-name="Of Monsters and Men">Of Monsters and Men</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2Tb1NWMeHK8NrL1at6Jxfp" data-name="Øystein Sunde">Øystein Sunde</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5AtaIPdNKyEwJmCmspTw63" data-name="Anders Jektvik">Anders Jektvik</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5l8VQNuIg0turYE1VtM9zV" data-name="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:163tK9Wjr9P9DmM0AVK7lm" data-name="Lorde">Lorde</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6eUKZXaKkcviH0Ku9w2n3V" data-name="Ed Sheeran">Ed Sheeran</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3IYUhFvPQItj6xySrBmZkd" data-name="Creedence Clearwater Revival">Creedence Clearwater Revival</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0MeLMJJcouYXCymQSHPn8g" data-name="Sleeping At Last">Sleeping At Last</a>.