UNITED KINGDOM: NORWEGIAN SINGER SILJE NIERGAARD PROMOTES HER NEW SINGLE "BE STILL MY HEART"

Record ID: 548964

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: NORWEGIAN SINGER SILJE NIERGAARD PROMOTES HER NEW SINGLE "BE STILL MY HEART"
  • Date: 1st August 2002
  • Summary: LONDON, UK (RECENT) (REUTERS) SCU SOUNDBITE (English) SILJE NERGAARD SAYING: "I was twenty and I tried to get a record deal as everybody else and I didn't get a record deal as most other people so I kept knocking the doors and i was very determined that I would do... this was my life so I didn't really give up"
  • Embargoed: 16th August 2002 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UK
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA40GP5MRWYO6MGGTN8MJIPJZJM
  • Story Text: Norwegian Jazz singer Silje Nergaard was in the UK recently to promote her new single "Be Still My Heart" which appears on her latest album "At First Light". Despite this being Nergaard's seventh album, her success has been concentrated over the past year, seeing her popularity rising world wide.
    Silje Nergaard first impressed critics when she was 16 as she jumped on stage at Norway's Molde International Jazz Festival. In fact, she impressed guitarist Pat Methany so much that they ended up doing a duet together on her first album "Tell Me Why You're Going" in 1990.
    From that moment on she collaborated with many different musicians and artists, including Morten Harket from A-Ha. Her first single entitled "Tell Me Why You're Going" went into the top 40 of the UK charts, and stayed in the top 100 for 15 weeks.
    After recording her first three albums in English, she was drawn back to her roots and produced the next two ("Brevet"
    and "Hjemmefra") in her native tongue. "Brevet" was a mixture of country and pop as well as jazz and was produced with the help of several well known Norwegian lyricists, and "Hjemmefra" featured vocals from the internationally renowned Gli Scapoli male voice choir.
    On her latest album there are nine original songs as well as three cover versions - "Let There Be Love", "Two Sleepy People" and "Blame It On The Sun". Nergaard has had mainly positive reviews, but the singer has come in for some criticism.This doesn't seem to have had much of a negative effect at all - she has worked again with lyricist Mark McGurk, and the result, it seems, is going to be just as successful as, if not more than, her other albums. The album was released on 27th May 2002 in the UK.
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