CATHRINE LEGARDH

Cathrine Legardh (b. 1973) born in Denmark out of Danish / Norwegian / Swedish parents. She was educated to be a music teacher, but left her day job in 2006 to go for a professional singing career; studied independently in the UK (Fionna Duncan e.g.) and New York (Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton e.g.). She performs in Denmark and abroad - Scandinavia, UK, USA, Iceland, Thailand and also China, where she represented Denmark at the World Expo in Shanghai. Legardh sings jazz standards - mainstream, cool and bebop - along with a selection of old Nordic tunes as well as her own compositions. She also composes and performs jazz for kids in the ensemble ‘NullerNix’ and launched two CDs and a book in relation to this. Legardh is signed to Storyville Records, who provides a worldwide distribution of her CDs. Her third album ‘Land & Sky’ (original music co-written with the read more...