Nina Kreutzmann Jørgensen

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Nina Kreutzmann Jørgensen (also known as Nina ; born July 17, 1977 in Nuuk ) is a Greenlandic singer and writer .

life and career

At the grammar school in Nuuk, Nina met Julie Berthelsen , Malik Hegelund Olsen and Nuka V. Petersen, who together founded a music group that sang English and Greenlandic classics. From 1995, Nina also appeared more often alone with Julie and both of them were often guest musicians in other bands. In 1997 the band Qulleq was founded, whose lead singer Nina was. After working on three albums, she later left the band before they split up completely in 2010. In 1998, Nina's school quartet, together with Ole Kristiansen and his band with Sarsuasut, published a number of well-known Greenlandic songs, which they had transformed into a musical by the traditional theater group Silamiut , which is famous in Greenland . Sarsuasut was also played in Iceland and Denmark . In 2001 Nina was part of a twelve-member choir that accompanied the Icelandic singer Björk on her world tour. In the same year it was part of the album Zedna , which went gold and was recorded by many famous musicians in Greenland.

In 2003 she planned to start her solo career, but her debut album Eqqissineq didn't come out until 2008 for various reasons. The album also achieved gold status in Greenland and Nina performed with it in Greenland and Denmark. In 2010 she was the lead singer of Julie's choir with Mads Lumholdt on the Danish TV music show AllStars , which eventually won. In 2016 she released her second solo album, but it is in Danish, which is rather unusual in the Greenlandic music scene. The album contains fictional stories by ten Scandinavian women, for whom she also published the collection of novels Hun står i nordenvind .

At the end of January 2019 it was announced that Nina and Julie would take part in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2019 with her English-Greenland song League of Light . Nina has long been a big fan of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and the Eurovision Song Contest . Both reached second place behind Leonora , who was finally allowed to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 .

Although her everyday language is Danish , she prefers to sing in Greenlandic .

In addition to her music career, Nina is a teacher at the private school in Nuuk. She is married to her former bandmate Malik Olsen (* 1979), with whom she has two children. She is the older sister of the director Pipaluk K. Jørgensen (* 1981).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nina at greenlandicpopularmusic.com
  2. ↑ Ti kortprosastykker at sagatid.dk
  3. ↑ Julie & Nina 'League of Light' at dr.dk
  4. ↑ a b c Nina at greenlandtoday.com
  5. ↑ Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2019 at ogae.de
  6. ↑ With a little help from my friends in Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Jørgensen, Nina Kreutzmann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic singer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuuk