Rebekka Bakken
Rebekka Bakken (born 1970 in Oslo, Norway ) is a attributable to the wider jazz Norwegian singer. Her voice ranges over several octaves.
Life
Already in childhood growing up near Oslo Rebekka Bakken within the family in touch with music. The father is a neurologist, her mother a teacher. She played violin and piano and sang Norwegian folk and hymns. In her teenage years, she had experiences as a singer in the Norwegian band rhythm and blues, rock and funk scene. After the demolition of their philosophy and economic studies, she moved to New York in 1995, to devote himself to her singing career. She began to write his own compositions and lyrics. The influence of jazz music took while getting stronger. End of the 1990s she met the Austrian jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel know. The 2001 and 2002 resulting in a duo with him publications they made known to a wider circle of listeners. Also still in New York met Rebekka Bakken together with the German pianist Julia Hülsmann. From this encounter, the 2003 published CD Scattering Poems, in the Bakken to the music of Julia Hülsmann Trio interpreted texts of American poet EE Cummings was born. In the same year she left New York and found a new home in Vienna.
The label Universal took the singer under contract, according to studio recordings in Oslo in Bugge Wesseltoft 2003 she published her first solo CD, the second followed in 2005. Both images show popular singer / songwriter influences, but without completely turning his back to the Jazz. During the recording sessions for her third solo album I keep my cool, which appeared in September 2006, Bakken was also supported by her compatriot Eivind Aarset. Your 2009 posted fourth album Morning Hours was produced by Craig Street. Bakken today lives in Sweden.
While Bakken always working with jazz musicians, their music is often influenced by elements of jazz and this is often associated with put them in interviews repeatedly discovers that they are not regarded as a jazz singer and has never sung standards or about scat.
Awards
Your recorded with the Julia Hülsmann Trio CD Scattering Poems was awarded in 2003 with the German Jazz Award. 2006 was first nominated for an Amadeus Austrian Music Award Rebekka Bakken in the category "National Jazz / Blues / Folk Album of the Year ". In 2007 she won this in the same category.
Discography
Solo albums
- 2003 - The Art of How to Fall
- 2005 - Is That You?
- 2006 - I Keep My Cool
- 2009 - Morning Hours
- 2011 - September
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 Ladies - Ludwig Hirsch