Background
Samsaya was born Sampda Sharma in Hamirpur to an Indian mother in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. She grew up on Ellingsrud in Oslo and went to Ellingsrudåsen skole and played football.
Samsaya was born Sampda Sharma in Hamirpur to an Indian mother in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. She grew up on Ellingsrud in Oslo and went to Ellingsrudåsen skole and played football.
She lived in India with her family and moved to Norway at the age of only eleven months. Growing up she was influenced by Hip-hop and listened to Public Enemy. She appeared with her first band at the age of nineteen.
After several years of making music with other urban musicians in Oslo, she got her breakthrough as an actress in the Norwegian movies, Folk flest bor i Kina, the horror movie Villmark and Hawaii Oslo.
Movies and Television Samsaya has had several roles in Norwegian movies. She has also been on several Norwegian shows on television and radio.
In 2008 Samsaya was a VJ on the program Topp 10 on the television Channel The Voice television Norway. The popular show was seen by Norwegian teenagers on weekdays.
In 2009, Samsaya has been on the front cover of magazines such as Henne and television shows such as the Norwegian version of The Clash of the Choirs, 4-stjerners middag halv åtte on television Norge and Zebra Grand Prix on TV2.