Angelina Jordan
Angelina Jordan is a Norwegian child singer whose audition for the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent at the age of seven, singing "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday, became a viral video online, and led to worldwide press coverage. She went on to win the competition with her performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime". Since then she has worked to raise millions of dollars on behalf of environmental causes and children's charities around the world. She always performs barefoot, after befriending a young shoeless girl while traveling when she was six years old. Jordan wrote a book about the experience and became the youngest published author in Norway.
Jordan has released multiple digital singles, two EPs, and one album called It's Magic, but has refused offers to be signed to any record label while she is still growing up. She appeared on the first season of Little Big Shots in 2016, and the second season of in 2020.
Performing career
After Jordan's performances on Norway's Got Talent went viral online, she was featured in People, Time, The Mirror, and other news outlets around the world. She also realized a personal ambition by performing for Peace Prize recipients Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert.In September 2014, she performed "Fly Me to the Moon" on the US television show The View, bringing her wider fame in the United States. She also performed on several TV 2 programs in Norway over the next few years, including multiple appearances on Allsang på Grensen and on TV4 in Sweden.
Jordan had a small guest role in the final episode of the Netflix series Lilyhammer, playing a girl who sings in a bar.
In April 2016, she performed "Fly Me to the Moon" on the first season of the noncompetitive children's talent show Little Big Shots. A year later she performed "What a Difference a Day Makes" on the UK version of the show.
In December 2016, she performed on Alan Walker is Heading Home, a live concert broadcast from Bergen, Norway, where she sang Walker's songs "Sing Me to Sleep" and "Faded".
On 27 June 2018, Jordan performed "Fly Me to the Moon" for Quincy Jones in The O2 Arena in London, as part of his 85th birthday celebration.
In 2019, Jordan performed for former president Barack Obama and other public figures at the Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm.
In 2020, she competed in the second season of . Her first appearance on the show, singing an original arrangement of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", received a "golden buzzer" from judge Heidi Klum. As with her Norway's Got Talent audition six years earlier, the video of Jordan's performance began to go viral, and garnered praise from Queen's official Twitter account. Shortly afterwards, the video was taken down from the show's official YouTube channel and Jordan released a studio version of the same arrangement under her own copyright. Jordan's second performance, a similarly reworked "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", was also well received, but she did not make the top 5.
Other work
In 2014, Jordan created her own YouTube channel to which she has posted TV appearances, official music videos, and live concert performances. She created a second YouTube channel in 2017, to present performances of cover songs. Several of her most popular videos have surpassed one million views.Jordan's recording debut, the three-song maxi-single My Christmas, was released in December 2014. The six-song Angelina Jordan – The EP was released on November 27, 2017. A full album of recordings with Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces, called It's Magic, was released on 15 June 2018.
In 2015, Jordan published the book Mellom to hjerter, illustrated by her grandmother, Iranian artist Mery Zamani. The book tells the story of her meeting a poor motherless girl in Asia who has no shoes. After a long conversation in which they discuss their dreams in life, she gives the girl her shoes and the girl promises to pray for Jordan to fulfill her dream to become a successful singer. According to Jordan the book is based on a real incident which she cites as the reason for always performing barefoot.
Personal life
Jordan has lived for extended periods in both Oslo and Los Angeles. She has a younger sister who was featured in one of her music videos. Her father is Swedish. Her Norwegian mother, Sara Astar, is the daughter of Iranian artist Mery Zamani and a Japanese father.She attended the Oslo Waldorf School and participated in the Oslo School of Music and Performing Arts after-school program, where she received vocal training. In addition to singing, Jordan plays the piano, violin, guitar, and flute, and also paints.
Discography
Albums
Singles
Featured in| Title | Year | Album |
| "Above the Water" TRXD feauring Angelina Jordan | 2020 | — |