Cæcilie Norby

Cæcilie Norby ( born September 9, 1964 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish singer, who is primarily active in the field of jazz today.

Life and work

Norbys parents, the mother was an opera singer, her father a composer, promoted early musical development Norbys. She attended among others the renowned as a singing school "Santa Annae school ". 1982 turned Norby is the pop music too, founded the group " Street Beat", but it seemed in 1983 as a singer in the fusion band "Front Line", which was awarded the " Ben Webster Prize ." First commercial successes it achieved from 1985 with the pop-rock group " OneTwo ", to which it belonged until 1993 alongside Nina Forsberg and with which they scored several radio hits. albums are sold more than 250,000 times in Denmark and placed very well in the local music charts.

After leaving " OneTwo " Norby is focused on jazz and worked as a singer in Ray Brown, Mike Stern, John Scofield or Dianne Reeves. Your Jazz debut " Cæcilie Norby " (1995) with contributions by guest soloists such as Chick Corea was the first Blue Note album by a Danish woman. It became the Danish "Jazz Album of the Year ", but also sold well in Japan. On the next album, " My Corner of the Sky " played Mike and Randy Brecker, Terri Lyne Carrington and Lars Danielsson. After it sold more than seventy thousand times, Norby was regarded as one of the ten most popular jazz singers of 1996. Their third album, "Queen of Bad Excuses ", was developed in close collaboration with Lars Danielsson and was published simultaneously in Australia, South Africa and Japan. The fourth album "First Conversation" ( 2002) Crossover cables; there is embedded in her voice string sounds and the play of Carsten Dahl and Jon Christensen. Then the live album "London / Paris " was created ( 2003). On the Jazz Baltica Festival 2004, she has performed with Nils Landgren, Ulf Wakenius (guitar), Lars Danielsson (bass) and Wolfgang Haffner ( percussion ), also in a further concert with Dianne Reeves. In the same year there was a one-off reunion of OneTwo, when she appeared on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Skanderborg Festival with Nina Forsberg and backing band with the hit " Midt i en drøm " live.

In 2006 she met at the same location on Curtis Stigers. In collaboration with Curtis Stigers and Lars Danielsson album "Slow Fruit" (2005) was, among other information, Randy Brecker, Ulf Wakenius, Carsten Dahl and the Danish Radio Concert Orchestra were involved. the more than twelve thousand have been sold in Germany.

In 2007, she cried with Nina Forsberg again OneTwo to life, joined with their Pop-/Rockklassikern at the Skanderborg Festival in the same year and was available from April 2008 with the One-Two - repertoire on tour in Denmark.

Norby, which has now been nominated ten times for the Danish Music Awards, in the Scandinavian press is considered the grande dame of jazz singing in Denmark.

CD

• 2011: Arabesque, with pieces among others by Eric Satie and Maurice Ravel, ACT 9723-2