2020 recap
2020 is the year Angelina turned 14. She received much attention for her original arrangement of "Bohemian Rhapsody", performed on America's Got Talent: The Champions. Many plans were scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her signing with Republic Records was announced and she started releasing material on that label.
Recap
America's Got Talent: The Champions
In early January Angelina's audition at America's Got Talent: The Champions was aired, where she performed her own stripped down version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" 🞂 ↗. Even the legendary group Queen, who created the groundbreaking original with lead vocalist and the song's author Freddie Mecury, shared the performance on her socials, with the words "Wow! What a rendition of #BohemianRhapsody @angelinajordanA 👏👏 #AGTChampions"[1]
She received the "golden buzzer" by Heidi Klum, and thus proceeded directly to the final, where she performed Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 🞂 ↗, as well in a stripped down version, which was similar to that of Sara Bareilles. While again receiving big praise from the judges, she was not voted into the final five contestens by the 50 so called "superfans" in the voting body.
She nonetheless had another final performance of Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" 🞂 ↗, joined by fellow contestant violin child prodigy Tyler Butler-Figueroa and illustrated live by sand artist Kseniya Simonova.
Even though she did not win the show, it led to her biggest viral sucess yet, especially in regards to her US audiance. She later commented several times, e.g. before performing the song at concerts, that this rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsoday" had "changed [her] live in so many beautiful ways". One major reason for that assessment will be seen in he next chapter.
Recording
On 2020-01-24, a different recording of her version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released as a digital single 🞂 ↗.
A week later, the "Above the Water" digital single was released by TRXD, featuring Angelina on an EDM track. 🞂 ↗
Stargate collaboration
Her rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was noticed by the successful songwriting/producer dou Stargate, who then contacted her. This lead to the creation of several songs, including "Million Miles". This was played by one of the producers for Republic Records co-founder and CEO Monte Lipman, who then got interessted in signing Angelina to his label.
Republic Records
In late August it was announced that she had signed with Republic Records.
In early November, "Million Miles" was released as the first single with the label. It was initally augmented with a lyrics video 🞂 ↗ with visual illustrations by her and Mery, and then followed by an "Live in Studio" version 🞂 ↗ in December, and a music video 🞂 ↗ for the single in late January of 2021, featuring her sister and her uncle as actors.
Other activities
Due to the COVID-19+ pandemic, there were no concerts this year.
The "Smile" documentary movie about late Norwegian poker player Thor Hansen was published in November, featuring her recording of the song "Smile"(here in the trailer video 🞂 ↗).
In summer, the Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz channel by Mery stopped posting after about a year of activity. This might have been related to Angelina signing with Republic Records. Also Angelina herself practically ceased the posting of songs or song snippets to her YouTube cover channel and to her social media accounts.
