Sissel Kyrkjebø
Norwegian soprano · Norway · On the map · Musicians · Born 1969 · age 57
She sang the Olympic Hymn to open and close the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games, lent her voice to the Titanic soundtrack, and has moved 10 million solo albums in a country of 5 million people. Norway's crossover soprano made a mononym out of her first name for everywhere else.
Sissel Kyrkjebø is read about 293 times a day, in 32 languages.
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Oscar Peterson Duets: I skovens dybe stille ro
Warren G Duets: Prince Igor (1997)
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Duets: I skovens dybe stille ro
Dario Campeotto Also in Flyvende farmor and The Flying Granny
Espen Lind Duets: Where the Lost Ones Go (2001)
Jytte Abildstrøm Also in Flyvende farmor and The Flying Granny
Peter Jöback Duets: Gå inte förbi
Jesper Langberg Also in Flyvende farmor and The Flying Granny
Nicolaj Kopernikus Also in Flyvende farmor and The Flying Granny
Odd Nordstoga Duets: Strålande Jul (2009)
Jørn Hoel Duets: Drømmeslottet - Svein Gundersens originalmusikk fra filmen (1986)- Trygve Hoff Duets: Drømmeslottet - Svein Gundersens originalmusikk fra filmen (1986)
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Sissel Kyrkjebø was born 24 June 1969 and rose in Norway in the late 1980s and early 1990s, her cover of Ole Paus' "Innerst i sjelen" spreading wide in the '90s. The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer put her voice on a global stage, followed by duets at Christmas in Vienna that year with Plácido Domingo and Charles Aznavour, then Carreras, Bocelli, Groban, and a lengthening list across pop, classical, and folk. Her 2006 concert with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir earned two US Grammy nominations in December 2007. She and Odd Nordstoga share the rare distinction of an 11-times-platinum Norwegian album for Strålande Jul, and though she sings mainly in English and Norwegian, she has worked in at least 17 languages. Abroad she dropped the surname - Kyrkjebø means "church farm" - and answers to Sissel.
