Eivør Pálsdóttir

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Eivør Pálsdóttir at the Copenhagen Culture Night (Kulturnatten) in 2008
Eivør Pálsdóttir at the Copenhagen Culture Night ( Kulturnatten ) in 2008
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Human Child
  DK 39 09/14/2007 (1 week)
The Color of Dark (with Ginman )
  DK 32 09/19/2014 (1 week)

Eivør Pálsdóttir [ ˈaivœɹ ˈpɔlsˌdœʰtːɪɹ ] (born July 21, 1983 in Syðrugøta / Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese soprano , musician and composer .

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Eivør Pálsdóttir is often referred to as “Faroese Björk ”, referring to the Faroe Islands' geographical and cultural proximity to Iceland and the artistic level rather than a particular style. Their repertoire ranges from jazz to folk , ethnopop to trip-hop , but also classical and church music . Your target audience includes all generations.

At the same time, their songs are part of Faroese folk music, the roots of which lie in the Faroese ballads and the church Kingopsalms , which have been orally handed down over centuries . She sings in her native Faroese , but also in English , Danish , Swedish and Icelandic .

Along with the metal band Týr , she is the most important artist who writes her songs in the Faroese language. Song versions in other languages ​​are mostly translations for an international audience.

Life

Eivør Pálsdóttir is the first of three daughters of the teacher Sædis Eilifsdóttir and the manager Páll Jacobsen from Gøta . The name Eivør is another spelling of the Faroese name Eyðvør and means "constant guardian" or "someone who always protects you". The surname Pálsdóttir means "Paul's daughter" after the first name of the father Páll. She dedicated the song Far Away from the album Room to her father .

After school she went to Iceland to study music. She later lived in Copenhagen . She now lives again in the Faroe Islands in her hometown Syðrugøta . It is particularly successful in all three countries and appears regularly.

Other well-known musicians such as Petur Pólson and Jón Tyril , Pálsdóttir's friends , also come from Gøta . Around this scene there is the annual G! Festival in the Faroe Islands. Kristian Blak is one of the first mentors of this generation who, headed by Eivør Pálsdóttir, expanded Faroese culture with contemporary music.

Career

Eivør Pálsdóttir traveled to Italy as a 13-year-old soloist in a Faroese male choir . At 13, she had her first television appearance. She has been a professional musician since she was 16 and released her first solo album Eivør Pálsdóttir at the age of 17 . In 2001 she won the Prix ​​Føroyar with the rock band Clickhaze . In 2002 the first Clickhaze CD followed and another with Kristian Blak's jazz band Yggdrasil and Pálsdóttir as a singer. The following year, her second solo album, Krákan , was released in Iceland . That earned her two Icelandic Music Awards : Best Female Singer and Best Performer . Since then she has been “adopted” by the Icelanders as one of their own, so she is more of a local artist there and is sometimes mistaken for an Icelander even abroad.

Her third solo album eivør was released in 2004 with the Canadian folk singer Bill Bourne .

On February 9, 2005, Eivør Pálsdóttir was elected Ársins Føroyingur 2004 (Färinger / in of the year) in her home country . The reasons given by the jury from politics, science, culture and sport said: "With her songs she put the Faroe Islands on the world map in the most positive way."

Eivør at the Danish Music Awards - Folk on March 11, 2006

On April 23, 2005, at the Atlantic Music Event in Tórshavn, she was awarded the national AME Music Prize as the best Faroese singer . It was given for the first time. On June 16, she received the national theater award Grímur in Iceland for the play Úlfhamssaga in the categories of best composition and best singing . The play is based on the Úlfham rhymes from old Icelandic legends.

At the Danish Music Awards - Folk 2006 , which is awarded in twelve categories, she was nominated in six categories. At the awards ceremony on March 11th in Tønder / Tondern she was named Danish Vocalist of the Year , and her album eivør was named Danish Song Album of the Year .

On December 30, 2006 she was voted Musician of the Year 2006 by the listeners of the Faroese radio ( Útvarp Føroya ) (ahead of Teitur Lassen and Týr ). On January 27, 2007 she was named Best Faroese Singer for the second time in a row at the Planet Award of the newspaper Sosialurin . On March 22, 2007 she won the national songwriting competition of the Atlantic Music Event with the song Grát ei (“Don't cry”) .

The song appeared in 2007 with other compositions on the CD Human Child , which is available in two editions, in Faroese and English. All songs are otherwise the same. The title Mother Theresa is on both CDs in English and is a tribute to Mother Teresa . The song Elinborg og Elisabeth is dedicated on both CDs in Faroese and her two sisters.

Concerts

Pálsdóttir performs both solo and with a band, big band and symphony orchestras . Your own instrument is the guitar.

The artist has toured almost all of Europe and North America. For example, in 2002 she played with Clickhaze at the Roskilde Festival and in 2003 at the Rochester Jazz Festival .

Eivør Pálsdóttir as a participant in a concert of the big band of the Danish radio in Næstved , South Zealand, in 2005

On May 12, 2004, Pálsdóttir appeared in Germany at the Nordic Sound Festival in Greifswald as the very first Faroese woman. Announced as The Voice of the Faroe Islands , she performed songs and ballads.

On October 13, 2004, Eivør Pálsdóttir sang the Faroese national anthem live to mark the opening of the Faroe Islands - Ireland football match in Dublin .

2005 was dominated by the Denmark tour with the Danmarks Radio Bigband with the final concert in the Copenhagen Opera. The Canada tour with Bill Bourne went to various folk festivals. With Yggdrasil she visited Tübingen and St. Gallen , among others , while she had a successful solo appearance in Flensburg .

In January 2006, Eivør Pálsdóttir and Bill Bourne and others performed in the sold-out Vienna Konzerthaus . Her first solo tour in Denmark in February was sold out everywhere. In Iceland she sang with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Benjamin Pope . Because of her election as Danish Folk Vocalist of the Year , she was seen at the 2006 Roskilde Festival, among others. Other big performances were the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam together with the big band from Danmarks Radio, and the local G! Festival in Gøta , on her 23rd birthday, where she plays in front of a home audience every year.

On February 21, 2007 Pálsdóttir went to Memphis to give two concerts at the North American Folk Alliance music conference and to record the song Love Me Tender live for the new record. In 2007 she also had a solo appearance at the Roskilde Festival.

In September 2007 Eivør Pálsdóttir gave two concerts in Japan for the first time , while their new album Mannabarn landed at number 1 on the Icelandic album charts after 14 days.

Also in 2016 she is on the road, supported by musician friends. On July 31, 2016, she performed at the Bardentreffen in Nuremberg, which had the motto "Sounds of Islands". Here she had the final appearance of the festival on the island of Schütt .

photos

  • Eivør Pálsdóttir and Bill Bourne from Canada in 2004 on the G! festival

  • Concert with the big band of the Danish radio in Næstved in 2005

  • Eivør Pálsdóttir and Bill Bourne in August 2005 at the Tønder Folk Festival

  • Eivør Pálsdóttir and Sebastian at the Tønder Festival 2006

  • 2006 at a concert in Flensburg

  • Appearance at the G! Festival in her hometown Syðrugøta, Faroe Islands in July 2007

  • In September 2008 in Haderslev

  • At the Moers Festival 2009

Discography

  • 2000 - Eivør Pálsdóttir (Faroese and Danish)
  • 2002 - Clickhaze - EP (Faroese and English)
  • 2002 - Yggdrasil
  • 2003 - Krákan (Faroese and Icelandic)
  • 2003 - Crow (Krákan in English)
  • 2004 - Yggdrasil live in Rudolstadt
  • 2004 - eivør (Faroese, Swedish, Icelandic, English)
  • 2005 - Trøllabundin (Cope Records) (Faroese, Swedish and Danish)
  • 2007 - Human Child (RecArt Music) (English by Petur Pólson )
  • 2007 - Mannabarn ( Human Child in the Faroese original)
  • 2009 - Eivör Live ( TUTL ) (Faroese, Icelandic, English)
  • 2010 - Eivør - EP (CPH Records)
  • 2010 - Larva (CPH Records)
  • 2012 - Room (TUTL)
  • 2014 - The Color of Dark (Sony) (with Lennart Ginman )
  • 2015 - Bridges (TUTL) (English)
  • 2015 - Slør (TUTL) (Faroese)
  • 2016 - At the Heart of a Selkie (TUTL) (together with the DR Big Band )
  • 2017 - Slør (TUTL) (English)
  • 2018 - Soundtrack for The Last Kingdom series (with John Lunn )
  • 2019 - Live in Tórshavn
  • 2020 - Segl

Filmography

  • Screaming Masterpiece , Iceland 2005. u. a. with Eivør and Björk. Documentary . Ergis Filmproduction and Zik Zak Films
  • Yggdrasil - The Tübingen Concert , Art and Culture at the Klinikum, Tübingen 2005. 2 DVD (Info)

Web links

Commons : Eivør Pálsdóttir  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eivør in the Danish charts
  2. ↑ Website of the Jazz Festival ( Memento of May 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Portal.fo : Eivør aftur á Roskilde Festivalin (Eivør again at the Roskilde Festival) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), February 21, 2007 (Faroese)
  4. ^ Eivør (FRO). In: bardentreffen.nuernberg.de. Culture Department of the City of Nuremberg, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pálsdóttir, Eivør
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eivør
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Syðrugøta , Faroe Islands