Norske Talenter

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Norske Talenter^↗

Norske Talenter (literally Norwegian Talents, but commonly known in English as Norway's Got Talent, or NGT for short) is Norway's edition of the Got Talent franchise^↗ of TV talent shows. Angelina won the sixth season of the show in 2014, becoming the show's youngest winner up to that time (still true as of 2022).

Background

Wikipedia articles:

• Norske Talenter^↗
• Norske Talenter (series 1)^↗
• Norske Talenter (series 2)^↗
• Norske Talenter (series 3)^↗
• Norske Talenter^↗
• Norske Talenter (sesong 1)^↗
• Norske Talenter (sesong 2)^↗
• Norske Talenter (sesong 3)^↗
• Norske Talenter (sesong 4)^↗
• Norske Talenter (sesong 6)^↗

Facebook pages:

• @norsketalenter^↗
• @tv2norge^↗

Norske Talenter first aired on 2008-02-22. The show follows the format of most Got Talent programs, with initial auditions followed by "judges' cuts", and then live semifinals and finals. The competition is open to all kinds of acts and to contestants of any age (above some minimum). By the 6th season, it had been won by a 16-year-old singer (Erlend Bratland), a hip-hop dance group of 17- and 18-year-olds (Quick), a 23-year-old rapper (Kristian Rønning, known as Sirius), an 11-year-old dancer (Daniel Johansen Elmhari), and a 17-year-old singer (Stine Hole Ulla).

Judges

The judges for the 2014 season were:

• Mia Gundersen – 52-year-old Norwegian actress and singer
• Omer Bhati – 28-year-old Norwegian dancer and rapper
• Lisa Tønne – 36-year-old Iranian/Norwegian comedian and actress
• Bjarte Hjelmeland – 43-year-old Norwegian actor, theater director, and musician

Performances

Audition

In her televised audition, which aired on 2014-03-07 but was recorded sometime before that, Angelina sang "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday over a prerecorded instrumental track. Video of the performance went viral online and led to coverage by media outlets around the world, including Time, CNN, The Mirror (in the UK), People, and The Hollywood Reporter.

Second round

In the second round, Angelina performed "I'm a Fool to Want You" a cappella, again in the style of Billie Holiday. While the song choice was almost certainly her own, the decision to sing it a cappella was not hers: all singers who did not play an instrument had to sing a cappella in the second round.

This was an "elimination" round, in which the judges saw groups of similar acts all in a row, one after another (as opposed to different types of acts being presented in a more or less arbitrary order, as in the first round). This was presumably so that a predetermined number of acts of each type could be passed into the next round, since that round was going to be broadcast live.

The session in which Angelina and the other solo singers performed apparently happened on 2014-02-07 in Oslo and was broadcast on 2014-03-28, in the 8th episode of the season (the first of two episodes covering this round of the competition). According to what was presented in the broadcast, Angelina performed last. Unlike in the other rounds, there was no live audience and the judges did not give each act feedback after they performed. Immediately following Angelina's performance (again, assuming the way the episode was edited matched reality), the contestants went backstage and the judges conferred in private to choose who would move on to the semifinals.

Semifinals

In the third round of the competition, the live semifinals, Angelina sang Nancy Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" accompanied by a live guitarist. This was in the first of multiple semifinal episodes (the 10th episode of the season), which took place in Oslo on 2014-04-11. Angelina was the first act to be voted into the finals.

Final

In the live final episode on 2014-05-23, Angelina sang "Summertime" accompanied by a live trumpet player and an instrumental track in the style of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's 1958 recording for their joint album, Porgy & Bess^↗.

Angelina won the competition with 46% of the audience vote, in a field of 10 final acts. The second- and third-place acts (announced in a random order), were a 20-year-old solo dancer, Daniel Grindeland, and a four-member dance ensemble, Juice Crew, aged 19–22.