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Biography
BLP unsourced|date=March 2012tone|date=March 2012 Silje Nergaard is a Norwegian singer & songwriter and one of Norway's best sold jazz artists ever on the official sales chart in Norway. She has released more than 12 albums. She is born June 19, 1966 in Steinkjer, Norway) and is married with the singer Heine Totland. From the age of 16 she established herself as one of Norway's strongest songwriters, and her first hit single "Tell Me Where You´re going" made it to no. 1 in Japan, and great success in Norway and the UK amongst other countries. Silje´s album "At First light" is by far still the most sold Norwegian Jazz album ever entering the official sales chart in Norway at no 1 in its first week at the start of the millennium. Silje has recorded and performed songs with Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, Toots Thielemann, Morten Harket of A-ha and many more. Silje is touring all over the world with her trio or band. The album "A Thousand True Stories" that she recored with the Metropole Ochestra of Holland in 2008 and was a great success in both Europe and Asia and received a Grammy Nomination in the US for best arrangements by legendary Vince Mendoza. In Spring of 2012 Silje will release her new album "Unclouded", based on recordings with her two great guitarists Hallgrim Bratberg and Håvar Bendiksen. In Norway it was released on March 9 - and international in March 23. Silje has written 9 new songs for "Unclouded" and has two great covers on this album "Human" By The Killers and the classical and great tune "The Moons a Harsh Mistress". For "Unclouded" Silje has also invited the great American guitarist John Scofield to contribute along with Jojje Wadenius, Knut Reiersrud, and NilsPetter Molvær amongst others. Silje is one of few Norwegian artists to have been commercially released all around the globe, on most continents and major music markets including Japan , Brazil , Germany , the United States|U.S. , and the United Kingdom .
Discography
Albums
''Tell Me Where You're Going (1990)
Silje (1991)
Cow on the Highway (1995)
Brevet (1995)
Hjemmefra - From Home (1996)
Port of Call (2000)
At First Light (2001)
Nightwatch (2003)
Darkness Out of Blue (2007)
A Thousand True Stories (2009)
If I Could Wrap Up a Kiss (2010)
Unclouded (2012)
;Compilation album
Be Still My Heart - The Essential (2005)
;Live album
Live in Koln (2005)
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.siljenergaard.com/ Official web site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazz/reviews/silje_atfirstlight.shtml BBC's review on At First Light, with fan comments
http://www.silje.nl/ Unofficial website
Persondata | NAME =Nergaard, Silje | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 19 June 1966 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Steinkjer , Norway | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Nergaard, Silje Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Norwegian jazz musicians Category:Norwegian jazz singers Category:Jazz composers Category:Norwegian singer-songwriters Category:Norwegian female singers Category:Melodi Grand Prix contestants Category:Spellemannprisen winners Category:People from Hamar
