Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir

Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir ( born October 16, 1990 in Copenhagen), also known by her stage name Yohanna, is an Icelandic singer. She participated in the Euro Vision Song Contest 2009 in part in Moscow, where she Is Iceland with the English Post It True? represented and took second place.

Biography

Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir was born in 1990 in the Danish capital Copenhagen, but moved two years later with their parents to Reykjavík. At the age of eight years Jóhanna moved with her family to Hafnarfjörður. There her talent came to the fore in a singing contest. Among 700 children, she was discovered by the singing teacher Maria Björk, who brought her to a singing school for children and trained. Jóhanna Jónsdóttir became then in the following years in Iceland to the popular child star. Her very first album, which she recorded with nine years was granted in 2000 a great success in the year. A year later a second album.

After the release of their third album in 2003, she performed on the well-known carols, they withdrew on the advice of their parents back into private life. Far away from the public, they made ​​their college degree, continued to work on her singing career and graduated among other auditions in New York and Los Angeles. Later she lived for a time in Denmark. In 2008, Jóhanna Jónsdóttir was back with her first adult album Butterflies and Elvis as a singer for the British songwriter Lee Horrocks was responsible. She subsequently went on several times in Reykjavík and it was followed by a joint concert with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, which was broadcast live on Icelandic TV.

The album's success allowed the Icelandic producers and songwriters Óskar Páll Sveinsson attention to Jóhanna Jónsdóttir; with Chris Neil and Tinatin Japaridze he wrote the melancholy soul tracks Is It True? , with whom she won the Icelandic preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest in Reykjavik in mid-February 2009. On 12 May 2009 she performed under the stage name Yohanna in the first semi-final of the Euro Vision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, she could decide for themselves. In the final of the competition, the 18 -year-old finished second behind Norwegian Alexander Rybak. Yohanna was thus able to build on the success of Icelandic singer Selma, which had also occupied second place at the Euro Vision Song Contest 1999 in Jerusalem. In 2010 she read to the Islands scoring for the 55th Euro Vision Song Contest.

In addition to working as a singer Jóhanna Jónsdóttir taught as a singing teacher at her former school of music. Self studied the Icelander at the Reykjavík Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts.

In 2011, she participated in the Icelandic preliminary decision for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011 in Dusseldorf. With the Icelandic ballad Nott ( "Night" ) she reached the third place.

In January 2013, it again took part in the Icelandic preliminary decision for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö. With the Icelandic ballad Thu ( "You " ) but they did not reach the final.

Discography

Albums

• 2000: Jóhanna Guðrún 9
• 2001: Ég Sjálf
• 2003: Jól Með Jóhönnu
• 2008: Butterflies and Elvis

Singles

• 2009: Is It True?
• 2009: I Miss You
• 2010: Thessi Jól
• 2011: Nott / Slow down
• 2011: Really Over
• 2011: I Think of Angels
• 2012: Coming Home
• 2013: THU