REBEKKA BAKKEN
Genres: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk • Norway

If it was up to Rebekka Bakken, people would not talk about her music, but rather just listen to it. The singer-songwriter with the deeply touching three-octave range is an “Anti Drama Queen” – a restless soul and at rest within herself at the same time. Constantly pondering and appeasing, she does not like to have people make a fuss about herself or her art. “I need the music more than it needs me”, she says accordingly. “I like to put everything to life in my music. It’s no big deal.” Hearing is feeling is living, when it comes to this emotional artist. But maybe it is also because her songs are so poetic and meaningful and her melodies speak so clearly and beautifully, that the curiosity to find out what is behind them is so enormous. With her fifth album the Norwegian singer, who was living in New York read more...