2013 recap
2013 is the year Angelina turned 7. At this time she was living in Oslo and going to school there. This seems to be the year that she began recording vocals at Bjerke Lydstudio, and when she had her first public appearances at festivals.
Recap
Starts recording in a studio
Angelina started to record songs in the Bjerke Lydstudio in spring of 2013, when also the first video of her performing 🞂 ↗ (or at least the first of those still available and known) was uploaded to YouTube on 2013-06-04. This sound studio is not a commercial studio, but is part of a municipal supported offering of performing arts type education to children and juveniles.[1]
A couple of more videos from this time and location were uploaded years later on the Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz YouTube channel, which was apparently started by her grandmother Mery. Note that although some of these video titles state that Angelina would be six there, they are more likely all from about the same time in spring 2013, when Angelina was already seven years old.[2]
First festival appearances
In a later interview, Angelina's mother Sara stated that Angelina had been performing at small jazz festivals and the Melafestivalen before her Norske Talenter appearence.[3] So this was very likely also in 2013, where the latter started on 2013-08-16.
The only known footage 🞂 ↗ of her performing at one of those earlier festivals is from the VAD-festivalen of 2013-12-01, where she performed "Hurt".
Auditions for Steven Van Zandt
Likely also around this time, she auditioned↗ with "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" for Steven Van Zandt, who is not only the main actor, but also the producer and the director of the Lilyhammer episode in which she played a bar singer in a guest role in the following year. Also, his advice was likely relevant for Sara's decision to let Angelina audition for the next season of Norske Talenter.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Informasjon↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Information]. Nysirkus Bjerke. Accessed 2026-03-02.
- ↑ in all of those videos, where her teeth are visible, it can be seen that they are in the same state as in this first uploaded video, which was uploaded when she was 7, and stated in the title screen that she would be 7
- ↑ Se Angelina (8) smelte dommerne med jazz-melankoli↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Watch Angelina (8) melt the judges with jazz melancholy]. VG.no. Accessed 2026-01-24.
- ↑ Elise Alexandra Gulbrandsen (2016-06-30). Little Steven om Norge: – Mitt andre hjem↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Little Steven about Norway: - My second home]. VG.no. Accessed 2026-02-15.
- ↑ Borghild Maaland (2014-03-28). Enorm interesse for sangtalentet↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Enormous interest in the singing talent]. VG. Accessed 2026-02-15.
