2017 recap
2017 is the year Angelina turned 11. This year she recorded her first full jazz album It's Magic with the Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps, and she had her first big concert tour with the jazz band The Real Thing and Sigrid Brennhaug, performing at 16 locations within the course of three weeks for Christmas concerts in churches and town halls.
Recap
Recording & release activities
Early year recording
In early January she recorded the "I'm Still Holding Out for You" demo 🞂 ↗, which got leaked in late 2018. The song was co-writen by the authors of her later published original "Shield", and also was recorded with (parts of) them. This makes it likely that "Shield" 🞂 ↗ was also created around that time.
Likely by March[1], she recorded the Linked-in Ad 🞂 ↗ of "Fly Me to the Moon", which she posted to her YouTube channel on 2017-12-10.
Angelina Jordan – The EP release activities
Angelina continued to release the previously recorded music videos of songs on her upcoming EP, such as
- "Fly Me to the Moon" 🞂 ↗ in February, and
- "When You're Smiling" 🞂 ↗ in June.
The Angelina Jordan – The EP itself was released only as physical CD in late November. It also contained the previously unreleased cover of "Our Day Will Come". There is only this low quality copy 🞂 ↗ available online.
Cover Channel started
In September she started to upload to her new, second YouTube channel, the Angelina Jordan CoverChannel, the first one being "Can't Help Falling in Love" 🞂 ↗. By the end of the year she had posted a total of four cover songs accompanied by Egil Clausen on guitar.
It's Magic recording
In late November she spent two days in Rainbow Studio recording her first full length It's Magic with Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps. She sang on 13 of its 16 tracks (the remaining three being instrumental), including her first two original songs, "What Is Life" 🞂 ↗ and "Oslo" 🞂 ↗. They and the rest of the album were released in June of the next year.
TV appearances
Little Big Shots UK and Germany
Angelina was performing "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" 🞂 ↗ on the first episode of Little Big Shots UK, which premiered on 2017-03-01, while it had been recorded already by early November of the previous year.
She also appeared in April with "I Put a Spell on You 🞂 ↗ on the German version of the show, called Little Big Stars. That was likely recorded in early February, when she had posted a picture of her in front of Cologne Cathedral.[2]
Allsang på Grensen
In early July, she performed for the third time at Allsang på Grensen, now with two new titles in her repertoire, "It's Now or Never" 🞂 ↗, and "Something's Got a Hold on Me" 🞂 ↗.
Guest appearances & concerts
This year she also had some guest appearences that we know about, which were
- at the Nordic Business Forum+ with "Fly Me to the Moon"Twitter↗, and
- at the Nor Shipping conference+ with both "Fly Me to the Moon" 🞂 ↗ and "What a Wonderful World" 🞂 ↗.
New Year concerts
From Jan 6th to 8th Angelina had a series of concerts in Kolbotn to celebrate the New Year, performing several songs with the Oppegård Janitsjar amateur band, directed by Bjørn Morten Kjærnes. This included her likely first live performance of "I Put a Spell On You" 🞂 ↗.
Travel to Asia
In late March, she performed at the Dojima River Forum in Japan, where she also sang for the first time in Japanese, with "Kawa no nagare no yō ni" 🞂 ↗. Prior to this, she apparently was also interviewed on Japanese TV and radio.
A couple weeks later, she returned to South Korea, where she performed at the Muse in City festival 🞂 ↗.
Summer concert tour
In July, she had four concerts with quite a big jazz band. They performed
- in Sandjeford+,
- at Tydalsfestivalen+,
- in Larkollen+, and
- at Prøysen festival+.
With these concerts, she added "Cry Me a River" 🞂 ↗, "Diamonds Are Forever" 🞂 ↗, "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (as "I Just Want to Love You" 🞂 ↗), and "Strangers in the Night" 🞂 ↗ to her catalog.
Christmas concert tour
In December, she had a big Christmas concert tour with the jazz band The Real Thing and the singer Sigrid Brennhaug, which took her to 16 locations in churches and city halls, on 15 dates, over the course of three weeks.
Here she added "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" 🞂 ↗, "Can't Help Falling in Love" & "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (same clip 🞂 ↗), "The Christmas Song" 🞂 ↗ , "All I Want for Christmas Is You" 🞂 ↗, "Crazy (Willie Nelson song)" 🞂 ↗, and "Mary's Boy Child" 🞂 ↗ to her live catalog.
On 2017-12-15 she is interviewed on the Spillerom radio show on NRK P2, where she also performs the last three songs mentioned, accompanied by the band's guitarist Staffan William-Olsson.
References
- ↑ Angelina posted a picture on March 24th showing her in New York on Facebook: I ❤️NYC↗. Also, there is BTS footage of the filming availalbe, where a view from the window shows some small snow piles left. Another BTS showed, that her "I'm Still Holding Out For You" demo was played at the set
- ↑ Such a beautiful cathedral in Cologne! ❤️ Thank you 🇩🇪 for amazing show and trip!↗
