Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko te tamahine a te kaieke pahikara a Thorvald Ellegaard rāua ko Karen Kirstine Nicolaysen, i whānau mai ia ki Paris. I ako a Ellegaard i te Conservatoire o Paris, a, i whakaatu i tana whakaaturanga tuatahi i Denmark i Copenhagen i te 1927. I puta ia puta noa i Scandinavia me nga taone puoro o Europi. Whai muri i te whakaekenga a Tiamana ki Rānana
I te tau 1940, i noho tonu ia ki Denmark, kātahi, i te tau 1943, ka haere ki Huitene hei rerenga tōrangapū. I marenatia ia ki te kaitoi Finnish a Birger Carlstedt i te 1949 ka noho hei taangata Finnish. Mai i te 1961 ki te 1965, i mahi ia i roto i te tokotoru me Anja Ignatius me.