2015 recap
2015 is the year Angelina turned 9. In this year she did record most tracks and filmed most music videos for the cover songs that later got published on her EP Angelina Jordan – The EP. She also became the youngest published author of Norway with her childrens book Mellom to hjerter and finished the year with a tour of guest appearancs, which brought her to Brazil, Qatar, and Singapore.
Recap
Angelina Jordan – The EP activities
As Angelina had explained in a radio interview in late 2014, she was working on a new jazz record and had already been in the studio for it. This later turned out to be named Angelina Jordan – The EP.
There are hints, that the filming of three music videos for its tracks was done by fall of 2015:
- a photo from the "I Put a Spell on You" 🞂 ↗ set was posted on 2015-02-03,
- the chalkboard in the "When You're Smiling" 🞂 ↗ video has "2015-06-16" written on it, and
- she posted a picture from the "Fly Me to the Moon" 🞂 ↗ set on 2015-09-23.
Further, her released lyrics video 🞂 ↗ for "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" uses the same backing track as her live performance at the Mediacorps Campus Opening of 2015-12-08. And the "Our Day Will Come" recording (there is only this low quality copy 🞂 ↗ available online) uses the same backing track that can be heard in a soundcheck at the Ajyal Youth Film Festival, which was done a couple days earlier.
Thus, assuming that the EP's audio tracks were recorded before these events, it is likely that all of the recording for the first five EP tracks was done between late 2014 and fall of 2015.
Live appearances in late spring/early summer
It seems as if – after she had been very busy towards the end of 2014 – Angelina was taking a five months break before she again started to performed in public.
Festivals
We know of three concerts of hers at festivals within a month in late spring/early summer.
For the last one, there is a recording of the whole concert of nine songs 🞂 ↗, plus a seperate one with the encore 🞂 ↗, which was a repetition of the first song performed. So besides the titles known from her before ("At Last", "Bang Bang", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Summertime", "What a Difference a Day Makes", and "What a Wonderful World"), she added with these concerts ""I Feel Good", "Our Day Will Come", "Unchained Melody" (at Nattjazz), and "When You're Smiling" to her known repertoire.
Charity events
Between the last two of these concerts, she also had two guest apperances at charity related events:
- Das kleine Herz im Zentrum+ (in Hamburg, Germany), and
- Hagekonsert på Aksept+ with "My Funny Valentine" 🞂 ↗.
Mellom to hjerter childrens book
It then took another couple of months, before she reappeared on TV, talking about her upcoming childrens book 🞂 ↗ Mellom to hjerter [Between Two Hearts] on the Lindmo+ talk show. Before they talked, she had performed a short version of "Unchained Melody" 🞂 ↗. This remained her only dedicated performance on Norwegian TV this year.
Her book was published two days after this talk show was aired. The book, based on Angelina's diary entries and illustrated by her grandmother, is about an experience she had when she was 6 years old, which is the reason she is always barefoot when she sings in public.
International travel
Brazil
In November she traveled to Brazil, where she performed↗ "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" and a short a cappella snippet of "Fly Me to the Moon" 🞂 ↗ at the Encontro com Fátima Bernardes+ talk show. She also performed these two titles and "What a Wonderful World" 🞂 ↗ at the Jotun plant opening+, which was also attended by Prince Haakon of Norway.
Qatar
In early December, she performed several songs at the Ajyal Youth Film Festival+ in Qatar, like "Our Day Will Come" at the soundcheck 🞂 ↗.
Singapore
Shortly after that, she performend "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" 🞂 ↗ at the Mediacorps Campus Opening+ in Singapore, which was also aired.
Christmas concert appearance
On 2015-12-21, Angelina joined the last concert of Mia Gundersen's Christmas tour at Victoria Scene in Oslo as guest artist, apparently singing "What a Wonderful World" in a duet with Gundersen 🞂 ↗ and performing – for the first in public – "Feeling Good" 🞂 ↗ solo.
