Silje Nergaard
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Norwegian singer & songwriter Silje Nergaard is Norways best sold jazz artist ever on the official sales chart in Norway. She has released more than 12 albums. From the age of 16 she established herself as one of Norways strongest songwriters, and her first hit single "Tell Me Where You´re going" made it to no. 1 in Japan, and great success in Norway and the UK amongst other countries. Silje´s album "At First light" is by far still the most sold norwegian Jazz album ever entering the official sales chart in Norway at no 1 in its first week at the start of the millenium. Silje has recorded and performed songs with Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, Toots Thielemann, Morten Harket of A-ha and many more. Silje is touring all over the world with her trio or band. The album "A Thousand True Stories" that she recored with the Metropole Ochestra of Holland in 2008 and was a great success in both Europe and Asia and received a Grammy Nomination in the US for best arrangements by legendary Vince Mendoza. In Spring of 2012 Silje will release her new album "Unclouded", based on recordings with her two great guitarists Hallgrim Bratberg and Håvar Bendiksen. For "Unclouded" Silje has also invited the great american guitarist John Scofield to contribute along with Jojje Wadenius, Knut Reiersrud, and Nils Petter Molvær amongst others. Silje is one of few Norwegian artists to have been commercially released all around the globe, on most continents and major music markets including Japan, Brazil, Germany, the U.S., and the United Kingdom.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Tell Me Where You're Going (1990)
- Silje (1991)
- Cow on the Highway (1995)
- Brevet (1995)
- Hjemmefra - From Home (1996)
- Port of Call (2000)
- At First Light (2001)
- Nightwatch (2003)
- Darkness Out of Blue (2007)
- A Thousand True Stories (2009)
- If I Could Wrap Up a Kiss (2010)
[edit] Compilation album
- Be Still My Heart - The Essential (2005)
[edit] Live album
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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19 June 1966 |
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Steinkjer, Norway |
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