2018 recap

2018 is the year Angelina turned 12. This year she relocated to Los Angeles. She also premiered her first three original songs, and she was thrilled to perform for Quincy Jones at his 85th birthday party in the O2 arena in London.

Recap

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Relocation to Los Angeles

By early March Angelina had relocated to Los Angeles, where she now got accompanied by Ivan Mendez on guitar until the end of summer, both for live events, such as the Gala de Danza⁺ in Mexico, and home studio covers.

According to Nico Cartosio, who composed "Song for A", she recorded her vocals for that in Los Angeles, likely in the 2nd half of 2018, after the instrumentals were recorded with an orchestra in Abbey Road Studios in summer.

However, it was also said (and could be observed) that she still shared her time between Los Angeles and Norway.

Cover channel & socials

In early 2018, Angelina uploaded several covers, some of which were likely already recorded in 2017, like "All of Me" ^🞂 ↗" by Billie Holiday, and "Ain't No Sunshine" ^🞂 ↗ by Bill Withers.

In March she uploaded first cover with Ivan Mendez, "Always on My Mind" ^🞂 ↗, which she did as a tribute to her grandfather, who had passed just a few days earlier.

Some more of the remarkable covers she and Ivan did together include "Million Years Ago" ^🞂 ↗, "Stay" ^🞂 ↗, "California Dreamin'" ^🞂 ↗, "I'm Not the Only One" ^🞂 ↗, and "Wake Me Up" ^🞂 ↗, as a tribute to Avicii who had passed in April. Though the latter two were only uploaded later by Mery, as some other covers Angelina did at the time.

She also posted more covers she did with a backing track, like "Young and Beautiful" ^🞂 ↗, and "A Natural Woman" ^🞂 ↗ as a tribute to Aretha Franklin, shortly after her death.

Angelina also performed "Wicked Game", accompaining herself on a keyboard, and posted some short clips to Instagram. Later Mery posted the complete song with a slide show video, and a fan created a music video ^🞂 ↗ from that, incorporating the instagram clips.

TV appearances

In April, an episode of Tangerudbakken Borettslag was aired, in which Angelina meets Hege-Anette Havik at the Prøysenhuset and sings backup to Hege-Anette on "Jørgen Hattemaker". ^🞂 ↗

In November, she premiered her third original song "Shield" ^🞂 ↗ on the Skavlan talk show. Starting with this, she no longer performed in her traditional white dress appearance, but instead in very colorful outfits.

Concerts

Summer events

During late spring and summer, Angelina had several concert performances in Europe.

It's Magic album-release concert

First she premiered in mid June her album recored with the Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps at the It's Magic album-release concert at Karpedammen, singing all 13 songs she sings on the album. These included her two new orignal songs "What Is Life" and "Oslo", as well as some other titles she had not sung in public before, such as "Cheek to Cheek" ^🞂 ↗, It's a Man's Man's Man's World ^🞂 ↗, "It's Magic" ^🞂 ↗, "Mr. Lonely" ^🞂 ↗, and "Speak Softly, Love" ^🞂 ↗.

Quincy Jones' 85th Birthday Celebration

Late in June, she opened Quincy Jones' 85th Birthday Celebration with "Fly Me to the Moon" ^🞂 ↗ at London's O2 Arena, and later in the show sang in a joint vocal performance of "Man in the Mirror" together with other performers.

Kongsberg Jazz Festival

In early June, she performed at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival with a small jazz band in the Kongsberg Musikkteater. Besides performing several songs from her new album, she did more covers, including some done for the first time live, like "Born to Die" ^🞂 ↗ and "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (soundcheck ^🞂 ↗), and two completly new ones, "Rehab" ^🞂 ↗ and "Unchain My Heart" (soundcheck ^🞂 ↗).

Already two days earlier she perfomed a few songs ^🞂 ↗ (namely "Fly Me to the Moon", "What Is Life", and – for the first time – "Valerie") with the same band (but lacking the drummer) at the TechnipFMC JazzFest, which was a company event of one of the festival's main sponsor.

Christmas concerts

In December, shortly before Christmas Angelina had four Christmas Concerts on two consecutive days at the Prøysenhuset, where she was again joind be the same small jazz band as in Kongsberg that summer, except for a new drummer. She performed all three of her new originals, as well as many cover songs, including some new titles in her repertoire, such as "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ^🞂 ↗, and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" ^🞂 ↗.