The Norwegian Sweet Miracle - Charming and Cheerful interview!!!

Sissel Kyrkjebø - 2008-10-28 - Denmark, DR1, 'Aftenshowet' - 'Evening show'

Thanks my new Norwegian friend, Roar, for fine transfer of interview.
I am admired and happy!!!

This interview is done at Danmarks Radio and the interviewer is of course danish. I'll try make it short, just the highlights. She is asked if she is danish or norwegian (She has lived for some 20 years in Denmark). Her reply is that she is a firstly a 'Bergenser', secondly norwegian and then danish. Saying she is a Bergenser is a norwegian joke. People from Bergen come from Bergen, all others is from Norway :) n into English.

Then a video clip from Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, 1986 where she sung a song from Bergen at age 17. Telling briefly her life story, all famous singers she has worked with, the songtrack on the movie Titanic, married to the danish singer Eddie Skoller having to daughters.

And working with Placido Domingo was fantastic saying she was growing as a singer working with him. She have a lot of respect for him and his warm personality. Then the work with rock band Sort Sol and singer Steen Jørgensen (Elias Rising).

They then talk about her work with the american rapper Warren G. They made a song 'Prince Igor' where she sings in russian. Then she tell a very funny story about the work in studio on this song. She was on her way to the studio in New York in desperate need of a russian coach. She don't speak russian. She saw a sign in the cab "Igor" and asked him "Are you russian", he replies "yes, yes", Sissel asks "What do you do the next hours?". The russian taxi driver joined her to the studio and coached her. He was "insanely strict" she said and laughed. And they run out of time, but the coach wasn't satisfied and told her "Don't worry, I know the short cuts" when she said they had to leave for the airport.

Then they talked about how she blends different music styles together. How good she is to separate her private life from her official, keeping the press away. She want to have her own private life with her two daughters, it's very important to her. In the end he wishes her good luck with her upcoming tour in Denmark and she says she looks very much forward to the tour.

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Became quite long, difficult to write a whole interview in just a few words. Enjoy :)

Roar

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