Rebekka Bakken

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Rebekka Bakken in Oslo (2017)
Rebekka Bakken in Oslo (2017)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Art of How to Fall
  AT 64 10/12/2003 (5 weeks)
Is that you?
  NO 30th 13/2005 (1 week)
  DE 61 03/14/2005 (5 weeks)
  AT 19th 03/13/2005 (10 weeks)
I keep my cool
  DE 50 09/15/2006 (4 weeks)
  AT 19th 09/15/2006 (9 weeks)
Morning Hours
  DE 64 11/06/2009 (7 weeks)
  AT 19th 11/06/2009 (5 weeks)
September
  DE 31 09/30/2011 (3 weeks)
  AT 12 09/30/2011 (7 weeks)
Little Drop of Poison
  DE 43 06/06/2014 (1 week)
  AT 27 06/06/2014 (2 weeks)
Most staff
  AT 30th 09/30/2016 (8 weeks)
Things You Leave Behind
  DE 85 05.10.2018 (1 week)
  AT 24 October 12, 2018 (4 weeks)
Singles
Everything Can Change
  AT 53 06/02/2006 (3 weeks)

Rebekka Bakken (born April 4, 1970 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter who is often assigned to jazz music in the broader sense , although she refuses to characterize herself as a jazz musician. Her voice spans three octaves .

life and career

Rebekka Bakken, who grew up near her hometown, came into contact with music within the family as a child. The father is a neurologist, the mother a teacher. She played classical violin and piano and sang Norwegian folklore and church songs. In her teenage years she gained experience as a singer in bands on the Norwegian rhythm & blues , rock and funk scene. After dropping out of philosophy and economics studies, she moved to New York in 1995 to pursue her singing career. She began to write her own compositions and texts. The influence of modern jazz increased. In the late 1990s she met the Austrian jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel . The 2001 and 2002 publications with him as a duo made them known to a larger circle of listeners. Rebekka Bakken also met the German pianist Julia Hülsmann in New York . This encounter resulted in the CD Scattering Poems , published in 2003 , in which Bakken interpreted texts by the American poet EE Cummings to the music of the Julia Hülsmann Trio . In the same year she left New York and found a new home in Vienna .

The label Universal signed Bakken, after studio recordings in Oslo with Bugge Wesseltoft she released her first solo CD in 2003, followed by the second in 2005. Both recordings show popular singer / songwriter influences without turning their backs entirely on jazz. When recording her third solo CD I Keep My Cool , which was released in September 2006, she was supported by her compatriot Eivind Aarset , among others . Her fourth album Morning Hours , released in 2009, was produced by Craig Street .

While Bakken repeatedly works with jazz musicians, her music is often influenced by elements of jazz and is often assigned to them, she repeatedly stated in interviews that she did not consider herself a jazz singer and never sang standards or scat . According to the jazz book by Joachim Ernst Berendt and Günther Huesmann , however, she has the supposed “unique ability to slip into the different roles that her songs require.” It quotes the young artist with the sentence: “As soon as there is a text, it works all about him. We [singers] are just the girls from the delivery service. "

Bakken now lives in Sweden .

Awards

  • In Germany Bakken won three times in a row, gold record ( German Jazz Award ): 2003 for the album The Art of How to Fall , hereinafter for Scattering Poems and 2005 for the album Is That You? . For the album Little Drop of Poison, on which she interpreted songs by Tom Waits , accompanied by the Hr Big Band , she received another gold record as the German Jazz Award.
  • In Austria Bakken received a gold record in 2006 for the album The Art of How Fall , for which she was nominated for an Amadeus Austrian Music Award for the first time in the category National Jazz / Blues / Folk Album of the Year . In 2007 she won this in the same category for the album I Keep My Cool .
Rebekka Bakken (Oslo Jazz Festival 2017)

Discography (selection)

Solo albums

  • 2003: The Art of How to Fall
  • 2005: Is That You?
  • 2006: I Keep My Cool
  • 2009: Morning Hours
  • 2011: September
  • 2014: Little Drop of Poison (with the hr big band )
  • 2016: Most Personal
  • 2018: Things You Leave Behind

With Julia Hülsmann

  • 2003: Scattering Poems

With Wolfgang Muthspiel

  • 2001: Daily Mirror
  • 2001: Daily Mirror Reflected (Remixes)
  • 2002: Beloved

As a guest musician

  • 2002: Monolith - Enders Room ( Johannes Enders )
  • 2003: Heaven - Christof Lauer
  • 2004: Human Radio - Enders Room (Johannes Enders)
  • 2006: In Eternity Women - Ludwig Hirsch

Web links

Commons : Rebekka Bakken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: NO - DE - AT
  2. ↑ Interview, reproduced in Little Drop of Poison - Rebekka Bakken & hr-Bigband: The Bonus-Tracks , hr 2, July 13, 2014
  3. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 5, 2005
  4. ↑ a b Der Standard : The search for lightness: Rebekka Bakken , December 2, 2009
  5. ↑ Tom Waits songs by Rebekka Bakken in the advance stream: The Diva and the Poet Der Spiegel , May 18, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Bakken, Rebekah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo