Angelina Jordan

Parents - Jerry Christian Slaytman and Sarah Astar. My father (a petroleum engineer by profession) lived and worked in the USA with his family for a long time, so his daughter speaks fluent English ^[1] . According to family tradition, she first showed musical abilities in a year and a half, when she began to sing along to Whitney Houston 's song “ I Will Always Love You ” ^[2] . She began to sing, arranging karaoke concerts for family members, carried away by the work of Johnny Holliday and Whitney Houston ^[3] . In 2014, she took part in a major television project - the national competition “Norske Talenter” and became his winner. Angelina Jordan became the youngest performer to ever win this contest (with a result of 46% of the vote) ^[4] . In the first round, Norske talenter earned a standing ovation for the song “ Gloomy Sunday ” (composed in 1933, known by Billy Holiday ). In the finale she performed the aria “ Summertime ” from the opera “ Porgy and Bess ” by George Gershwin . For the victory, the girl received 500,000 crowns ^[5] . “I become a different person when I sing. It was like a wonderful dream, ”she said in an interview with TV 2 ^[6] .

The victory brought her the attention of the largest media outlets in Europe and America: People , Time magazine , The Daily Mirror , Daily Mail , The San Francisco Globe , The Hollywood Reporter , CNN , O Globo (Brazil) ^[6] . Critics compared her to Amy Winehouse ^{[7] [8]} .

In the same year, Angelina performed at a concert in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize ^[9] . In September 2014, she performed on the American television show The View . She performed the song " Fly Me to the Moon ", which was written by Bart Howard in 1954, and she gained the greatest popularity in the performance of Frank Sinatra ^[10] . Angelina Jordan also performed on the Norwegian TV 2 (“Allsang på Grensen”) and TV 4 in Sweden .

Angelina Jordan played a small role in the last episode of “ Lillehammer ” (called “Loose Ends” ) - a television series from a Norwegian-American production about a middle-aged gangster from New York who surrendered his police boss and was forced to move to a small town on a witness protection program east of Norway. Played in the film a girl singing in a bar ^{[11] [12]} .

In December 2014 she released her first mini-album , which included three songs (“ Silent Night ”, “ White Christmas ”, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” ).). Currently, based on this album, he is working on his first full-length album ^[13] .

In April 2016, she performed at the Little Big Shots television talent show ( NBC ). In 2016, Angelina Jordan launched her own YouTube channel ^[14] .

In May 2016, she performed in New York at a concert organized by the Rainforest Alliance at the American Museum of Natural History ^[15] , in Los Angeles in the presence of fourteen American astronauts at a fundraiser for the Cosmonautics Museum in California, as well as at a concert in favor of Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA ^[2] . The singer also performed at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival along with popular American jazz singer Melody Gardo ^[16] .

The singer collaborates with the label PRMD ^[17] .

Angelina Jordan lives in Oslo with her family, she has a younger sister. She is studying at the Waldorf School of Oslo , and also attends the School of Music and Performing Arts, where he is engaged in vocals . In addition to singing, she takes piano , violin and flute lessons ^[18] .

In her free time she likes to listen to the recordings of Dina Washington , James Brown , Louis Armstrong , ABBA ^[18] .

At concerts, always acts barefoot. In 2015, Angelina Jordan published a book “Between Two Hearts” ( Norwegian “Mellom to hjerter” ) for children, illustrated by her grandmother Mary Zamani (poet and playwright Erling Kittelsen was a literary consultant in ). The book tells about the meeting of Angelina Jordan with a poor orphan girl from Asia, whom Angelina Jordan gives shoes to. In turn, the girl promises to always pray for her. The book is based on a true story that Angelina Jordan cites as the reason for this manner of speaking. In an interview, she said that once, when she was six years old, she saw a homeless child who did not even have shoes in the cold season. This impressed her so much that she decided that she would not wear shoes on stage ^{[19] [20]} .

• 2015. Angelina Jordan. Between Two Hearts ^[23]

• Camilla, Norli. Norske Angelinas stemme vekker oppsikt i hele verden (Norwegian) . Verdens Gang (March 12, 2014).
• Camilla, Storhaug. . Angelina vant 'Norske talenter': Jeg vil hjelpe barn som ikke har det bra (Norwegian) , VG . Date of treatment November 20, 2016.

• Official site of the singer (neopr.) .
• Angelina Jordan Astar on the Internet Movie Database
• Angelina Jordan Official on YouTube (unopened) .