Paulsberg started playing saxophone at the age of fifteen, after listening to a cd with American saxophone player Stan Getz. The year after, she started the music program at "Kirkeparken videregående skole" in Moss, where she got her Examen artium in 2009. Later she became a graduate of the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium in 2011,[1] and released her debut album Waltz For Lilli (2012), including Trygve Waldemar Fiske (double bass), Oscar Grönberg (piano) and Hans Hulbækmo (drums).[2]
Hanna Paulsberg is the initiator and songwriter for the vocal trio GURLS including Rohey Taalah and Ellen Andrea Wang. In 2018 they released the album Run, Boy, Run. The album won the 2018 Norwegian Grammy award in the jazz category. They opened for a-ha in a sold out Oslo Spektrum for two nights in a row in February 2018, and they performed at the Norwegian Grammys the same year.
Honors
2011: Titled "Young Nordic Jazz Comets"
2011: Trondheim Jazz Festival Young Talent Award
2015: Titled NTNU Jazzambassador 2015
2018: Spellemannsprisen (Norwegian Jazz Grammy) for Run boy, run with GURLS.
2019: Rolf Gammleng prisen
2020: Ella prisen (Oslo Jazzfestivals hederspris)
2021: Spellemannsprisen (Norwegian Jazz Grammy) for Velkommen Håp with FlUkten.
