Marit Elisabeth Larsen (born 1 July 1983) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She began playing violins at age of 5, and played it until the age of 8. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. More recently she has pursued her own music career releasing her solo debut album, Under the Surface, in 2006. Her second album, The Chase, was released in Norway in October 2008. The third album, entitled Spark was released in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark on 18 November 2011 and Germany, Austria, Switzerland on 16 December 2011.

Recognizable as the lighter-haired of the two musicians of M2M, Larsen played the guitar, while Raven played the piano, and did half of the vocals and songwriting. After touring the world and producing two albums with hits such as "Don't Say You Love Me", "Mirror Mirror", and "Everything", M2M was dropped by Atlantic Records in September 2002. Larsen made a guest appearance in the American television series Dawson's Creek, 100 Light Years From Home episode. The episode also featured M2M performing "Everything".

Thomas Numme (born 28 February 1970) is a Norwegian television personality.

He was born in Sandefjord as a son of Yngvar Numme, and took media education at Volda University College. He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in P3 radio and with juvenile shows before switching to TV 2 in 2003. Together with Harald Rønneberg he hosted the first season of Idol in 2003, and then the Friday night show Senkveld. The duo has also hosted the Spellemannprisen award show.

In both 2006 and 2007 Numme and Rønneberg were awarded the Se og Hør readers' TV personality of the year award.