Morten Harket: A-Ha singer is ill with Parkinson’s

In a longer article on your website, the Norwegian pop band A-Ha announces that front man and singer Morten Harket is ill. “It is not the kind of message that you want to tell the world, but it is there,” it says. Harket had had to fight with his body for the past few years.

“I have no problem accepting this diagnosis. On the way there, I found moral support in the view of my 94-year-old father that the organism resigned over time: ‘I take, what works,’ he says.

“Some of me wanted to go public with it. As I said, it was not problematic for me to recognize the diagnosis; what prevented me from doing so was the need for peace of mind,” Harket explains. “I try to do what is best countered by the decay of the system. It is a demanding balancing act between medication and side effects,” said the 65-year-old.

Various treatment approaches have alleviated harkents symptoms, it is said that Parkinson’s is not curable. “In June 2024, he underwent a neurosurgical procedure in which electrodes were implanted deep in the brain on the left,” explains Omdahl in his article on the band website.
“The electrodes are connected to a small, pacemaker -like device that is implanted under the skin of the chest and sends high frequency current into the brain via the electrodes,” he writes.

As for its musical future, the disease is a problem. Because Harket’s voice is affected. “Parkinson’s Morten meets very hard as a stage personality and singer at A-Ha. His singing technology places high demands on strength, nuances and technical control, and pål [Pål Waaktaar-Savoy, Anm. d. Red) und Magne [Magne Furuholmen, Anm. d. Red] Have almost made it a sport to write music, the Morten’s skills to the border, “said Omdahl.” I don’t feel like singing, and that’s a sign for me, “says Harket himself.

He has a clear message for his fans: “Don’t worry about me.”