2014 recap
2014 is the year Angelina turned 8. It was a very big year for her, as she became known around the world following the broadcast of her audition for Norske Talenter (commonly known as Norway's Got Talent) on 2014-03-08. She also had a guest appearance in the Netflix/NRK TV series Lilyhammer and recorded and published her first digital release, the maxi single My Christmas.
Recap
First TV appearances at age 8
Norske Talenter
In early 2014, Angelina auditioned 🞂 ↗ for with "Gloomy Sunday" for Norske Talenter, which is the Norwegian version of the Got Talent TV show franchise. This was only aired on 2014-03-07, after she had already sucessfully performed 🞂 ↗ "I'm a Fool to Want You" in the second round a month earlier. Her audition was then also uploaded to YouTube and went immediately viral. It became also a topic on international news media.
Angelina performed 🞂 ↗ "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" in the live semi-final. In the final show, she peformed 🞂 ↗ "Summertime", and won the competition with 46% of all votes spilt among the 10 finalists.
Background stories and interviews
Due to the huge public interest to the airing of her audition, she was two weeks later invited to the Senkveld med Thomas og Harald (short: Senkveld) late night show, where she was interviewed by the hosts, and performed 🞂 ↗ "Fly Me to the Moon".
During and after the competition, she also appeared in more TV features, e.g, in this segment 🞂 ↗ from 2014-03-29, where a clip of her singing Whitney's version of "I Will Always Love You" at an age of just 18 month, was shown. Also it showed a fragment of her performing "I (Who Have Nothing)" at the Bjerke Lydstudio, which must have been recorded just a couple weeks earlier.
Subsequent TV appearances
In early summer, she had guest appearances at the Sommerkveld Med Redningsskøyta show on 2014-06-23, where she performed 🞂 ↗ "Summertime", and at Allsang på Grensen, were she premiered 🞂 ↗ What a Diff'rence a Day Made, which was aired the day after on 2014-07-03.
US debut
In September, Angelina was shown on US national television 🞂 ↗ in the ABC show The View, where she was interviewed by Rosie O'Donnell and performed "Fly Me to the Moon".
Kongsberg Jazz Festival
On 2014-07-03, the day after her Allsang på Grensen performance was recorded, she performed 🞂 ↗ "Summertime", "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", and "Fly Me to the Moon" at the Barnivalen [The Children's Festival] of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival. She was supported by the guitarist and the trumpet player (for "Summertime" only), who had already accompainied her to these songs at Senkveld and on the live shows of Norske Talenter.
Later the same day, she performed the same three songs 🞂 ↗ with the same musicians at a 40th anniversary celebration of one of the festival's main sponsors, FMC Technologies.
My Christmas maxi single
On 2014-12-14, her My Christmas maxi single gets released, containing "White Christmas", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", and "Silent Night". While she promoted these songs with small snippets showing her in the recording booth, the full tracks were not officially released on YouTube, but are only available on dedicated music streamig and purchasing platforms, such as on Spotify↗ or Apple Music↗.
She did, however, present all three titles on (different) TV shows, and there are recordings from those performances availalbe, see further below.
Even more TV appearances
In December Angelina had again several TV apperances, in Norway, Sweden, and Germany. The earlier ones where mainly charity related, while the later ones were on Christmas shows, where she presented songs from her just released My Christmas maxi single.
- Ein Herz für Kinder+ (Germany) with "Fly Me to the Moon" 🞂 ↗,
- Svenska Hjältar+ (Sweden) with "I'll Be There" 🞂 ↗ (she also sang "White Christmas"[1], but that wasn't aired), and
- TV 2's Artist Gala+ with "At Last" 🞂 ↗.
Noble Peace Prize event
Angelina sang at the Redd Barnas Fredsprisfest [Save the Children Peace Prize Party], broadcast live on NRK on 2014-12-10,[2] a few hours before the Nobel Peace Prize↗ was awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai. The event took place at Rådhusplassen [City Hall Square], a plaza in front of Oslo City Hall. She sang "What a Wonderful World" twice in the same location, once at 11:17 a.m. and again at 11:49 a.m. 🞂 ↗. For the first performance, sung only for the crowd (as the prize winners had not arrived yet), she was backed by a live band. Her second performance, sung in front of — and dedicated to — the prize winners, was sung over a prerecorded instrumental track.
Christmas songs
- Nyhetsmorgon+ (Sweden) with "White Christmas" 🞂 ↗,
- Julemorgen+ with "White Christmas"[3] and "Silent Night" 🞂 ↗, and
- God Morgen Norge+ with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" 🞂 ↗.
Lilyhammer
Angelina also had a guest role as a bar singer in the last episode of season 3 of the Netflix/NRK dark comedy series Lilyhammer.
Her bar scene 🞂 ↗ performing "I'm a Fool to Want You" was likely filmed in the last week of May 2014.[4][5] She also contributed "Gloomy Sunday" as background music for a scene 🞂 ↗, which was only part of the Norwegian Netfilx version of the episode.
Her participation was only made public when she appeared at a red carpet event for the new season at the end of October that year, which was also in the news on TV.[6]
While the whole season became available at Netflix on 2014-11-21, Angelina's episode was aired by NRK only on 2014-12-17.[7]
Other activities
Many more small concerts or guest appearances
Angelina did have a lot more guest appearances or tiny concerts that year, most of which only got visible years later when her grandmother Mery published many video she took on her Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz YouTube channel. For many of these videos, the exact event, location and/or date is unknown. What is remarkable, is that she played with lots of different musicians for accompainment, as these were likely in many cases a given event band.
Here we only discuss the most notable ones. More are listed in the 2014 event listing of the performance database.
Concert for the prime minister
By mid of June, so within a couple of weeks after she won Norske Talenter, Angelina performed 🞂 ↗ "Bang Bang", "Fly Me to the Moon", and for the first time the full version of "Summertime" for Norway's prime minister Erna Solberg and members of her cabinet.[8][9] Here she was accompanied for the first time by Egil Clausen[10], in addition to Eivind Hannisdal, who was the trumpet player at the Norske Talenter final.
Orkla Growth Awards
In November she sang "At Last" 🞂 ↗ and likely also "My Funny Valentine" at the Orkla Growth Awards (a consumer-goods industry event). There are videos of a series of takes at the on-stage rehearsal with the band that showcase Angelina's hard work to achieve the best result for her performances, both for "At Last" 🞂 ↗ and "My Funny Valentine" 🞂 ↗.
Radio appearance
Angelina has been interviewed 🞂 ↗ on the P4s radiofrokost [P4's radio breakfast] radio program on 2014-12-17, where they talked among other things about her recent appearence on the German Ein Herz für Kinder benefit TV show, her recently published "White Christmas" cover (which was also played), and that she would be already working on a jazz record, which would feature a big band and a strings orchestra. The jazz record mentioned later turned out to be her first EP named "Angelina Jordan – The EP", which was only released in late 2017, and which we will be discussed further below.
References
- ↑ Angelina Jordan concert White Christmas↗. Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz on YouTube. Accessed 2026-03-12.
- ↑ Discussion by Yozhik v Tumane and Bernard Goubin in the comments of Angelina Jordan - New Discovery - What A Wonderful World - Oslo - Nobel Peace Prize Concert - 2014↗. YouTube. Accessed 2021-01-14.
- ↑ Julemorgen: Angelina synger↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Christmas morning: Angelina sings]. 2014-12-19. NRK.no. Accessed 2025-12-17.
- ↑ Felicia Alvsing (2014-05-29). Little Steven og Angelina feiret sammen i Oslo↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Little Steven and Angelina celebrated together in Oslo]. VG.no. Accessed 2026-01-25.
- ↑ A picture of a clapperboard with the date 2014-05-27 at the bar set is shown in this article: Jon Selås (2014-10-29). Her er Bruce Springsteen i «Lilyhammer»↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Here is Bruce Springsteen in «Lilyhammer»]. VG.no. Accessed 2026-01-25.
- ↑ Angelina Jordan on red carpet for "Lilyhammer" By Netflix↗. Angelina Jordan Official on YouTube. Accessed 2026-02-15.
- ↑ List of Lilyhammer episodes↗. Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-02-24.
- ↑ Angelina Jordan have concert for Prime Minister (Erna Solberg) and members of the Cabinet↗. Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz on YouTube. Accessed 2024-02-07.
- ↑ 2014-06-13 Facebook post by Angelina Jordan Offical↗ with picture of the event
- ↑ Egil explaind this when being interviewed by Alan Papier, see Angelina Jordan - Behind Every Great Singer, There's a Wonderful Musician-Egil Clausen↗. Alan Papier on YouTube. Accessed 2026-03-04.
