Sidsel Endresen

Sidsel Endresen

Background information
Born (1952-06-19) 19 June 1952
Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Vocal
Website www.sidselendresen.com

Sidsel Endresen (born 19 June 1952) is a Norwegian jazz vocalist, composer and actor. She was part of the Jon Eberson Group. Since 1987, Endresen has pursued a successful solo career, resulting in 13 records under her own name including several recorded for the ECM label.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Career

Sidsel Endresen

Endresen was one of the most pronounced female jazz musicians in Norway in the beginning of the 21st century. She is a versatile artist, who likes to challenge her voice with new experimental forms and combination of jazz and other artistic expressions. Her work has moved from "fusion" and "chamber jazz" in the 1980s and 1990s, to improvisational "new" musical forms in the mid 1990s until today. She has also moved from larger formats to explore solo, duo and trio formats. The last 15 years have her work mainly been concentrated on the genre of free improvisation music, both as a performer and as composer.[1]

Endresen studied English and Anthropology and stayed in the UK back in 1976, before settling in Oslo, where she started her artistic career.[2]

She worked as a singer, composer and songwriter with soul group «Chipahua» (1979- ), with Jon Eberson Group (1980–87). With Eberson, she made a series of musically strong albums at the interface between jazz and rock that was highly popular and acclaimed by a growing audience. The result of this cooperation was five celebrated CDs, awarded two times the Spellemannprisen.[1][2]

Endresen and Westerhus is followed by new experimental Norwegian musicians like Natalie Sandtorv and Torgeir Standal in The Jist duo.[7]

Honors

Discography

Solo albums

With Bugge Wesseltoft
With Christian Wallumrød & Helge Sten
With Stian Westerhus

Collaborations

Within Jon Eberson Group
With Jon Balke
With Nils Petter Molvaer
With other projects

(See External Links, below, for in-depth discography)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sidsel Endresen Biography". MIC.no.
  2. 1 2 3 Bergh, Johs. "Sidsel Endresen Biography". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  3. ↑ "Biography - Jazzland Records".
  4. ↑ "Biography - AllAboutJazz.com".
  5. ↑ "Sidsel Endresen Biography - Kalleklev.no".
  6. ↑ "Sidsel Endresen Biography". Cosmopolite.no.
  7. ↑ Hareuveni, Eyal (2014-05-02). "The Jist: The Jist (2014)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2015-11-07.

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Awards
Preceded by
No Jazz rock award		 Recipient of the Jazz rock Spellemannprisen
1981 		Succeeded by
No Jazz rock award
Preceded by
No Open class award		 Recipient of the Open class Gammleng-prisen
1991 		Succeeded by
Anne Grete Preus
Preceded by
First award in 1993		 Recipient of the Radka Toneff Memorial Award
1993 		Succeeded by
Kirsten Bråten Berg
Preceded by
Nils Petter Molvær		 Recipient of the Open class Spellemannprisen
1998 		Succeeded by
Krøyt
Preceded by
Bugge Wesseltoft		 Recipient of the Kongsberg Jazz Award
1998 		Succeeded by
Audun Kleive
Preceded by
Totti Bergh		 Recipient of the Buddyprisen
2000 		Succeeded by
Jon Eberson
Preceded by
Anja Garbarek		 Recipient of the Open class Spellemannprisen
2002 		Succeeded by
Niko Valkeapää
Preceded by
Ola Kvernberg		 Recipient of the Jazz Spellemannprisen
2012 		Succeeded by
Karin Krog & John Surman
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