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TBD: include some sort of songs listing in each year? Like notable performances, new titles introduced, or else?

2013

Starts recording in a studio at age 7

Angelina started to record songs in the Bjerke Lydstudio in spring of 2013, when also the first video of her performing↗ (or at least the first of those still available and known) was uploaded to YouTube on 2013-06-04. This sound studio is not a commercial studio, but is part of a municipal supported offering of performing arts type education to children and juveniles.[1]

A couple of more videos from this time and location were uploaded years later on the Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz YouTube channel, which was apparently started by her grandmother Mery. Note, that although some of these video titles state that Angelina would be six there, they are more likely all from about the same time in spring 2013, when Angelina was already seven years old.[2]

Has her first festival appearances

In a later interview, Angelina's mother Sara stated, that Angelina had been performing at small jazz festivals and the Melafestivalen before her Norske Talenter appearence.[3] So this was very likely also in 2013, where the latter started on 2013-08-16.

The only known footage↗ of her performing at one of those earlier festivals is from the VAD-festivalen of 2013-12-01, where she performed "Hurt".

Auditions for Steven Van Zandt

Likely also around this time, she auditioned↗ with "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" for Steven Van Zandt, who is not only the main actor, but also the producer and the director of the Lilyhammer episode in which she played a bar singer in a guest role in the following year. Also, his advice was likely relevant for Sara's decision to let Angelina audition for the next season of Norske Talenter.[4][5]

2014

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, 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.

Charity related

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,[6] 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.[7] 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

Lilyhammer

Angelina 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.[8][9] 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.[10]

While the whole season became available at Netflix on 2014-11-21, Angelina's episode was aired by NRK only on 2014-12-17.[11]

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.[12][13] Here she was accompanied for the first time by Egil Clausen[14], 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 "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.

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.

2015

Angelina Jordan – The EP activities

As Angelina had explained in a radio interview in late 2024, 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:

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 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:

Mellom to hjerter childrens book

It then took another couple of months, before the 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.

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[15] and performing – for the first in public – "Feeling Good" solo.[16]

2016

Social media activities early in the year

On 2016-01-24, Angelina celebrated reaching 100k subscribers on Facebook with a livestream, where she performed "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". And three weeks later, on 2016-02-14 Valentine's day, she had an Instagram live, singing "My Funny Valentine". At the time, her earlier performances from the 2015 live events had not yet been uploaded to YouTube yet, so these were basically the Internet premieres of these two titles.

Angelina Jordan – The EP activities

On 2016-04-22, she recorded with musician's from KORK (NRK's radio orchestra) a cover of "Back to Black", though with her own, improvised lyrics. The performance was broadcast and uploaded to her YouTube channel the next day. Which makes the song the last title she recorded for her later EP, and the first which was published.

She released two more covers from the upcoming EP that year: "I Put a Spell on You" as a music video in late September, and "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" as a lyrics video December, just before Christmas.

International travel

In May Angelina performed at two charity releated events in the USA, and at another one in early June in South Korea.

USA

South Korea

Concerts

Kongsberg Jazz Festival

In July, she performed on four different stages at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival. She played at the first and last occassion with a small jazz band, while for the second and third gigs she was accompanied by the amateur Kongsberg Big Band:

  1. performed on the first day at the Barnivalen scene (no known video footage),
  2. sang on the second day "Summertime", "What a Difference a Day Makes", "Fly Me to the Moon", and "Feeling Good at a "Gulljazz" event at the Skavangertun nursing home,
  3. sang two days later in the afternoon "Summertime" and "Fly Me to the Moon" at an outdoor stage
  4. sang later the same day "Every Time We Say Goodbye", "What a Difference a Day Makes", "Fly Me to the Moon", and "Feeling Good" in the Kongsberg Musikkteater (main auditorium), opening for Melody Gardot

Alan Walker Is Heading Home concert

In December, just before Christmas, she performed two Alan Walker songs – "Sing Me to Sleep" and "Faded" – with him in restrung versions at his Alan Walker Is Heading Home concert in Bergen. This was also offered as a livestream.

TV appearences

In spring

In April, she appeared the second time on US television, again with "Fly Me to the Moon", now on the Little Big Shots show.

As we had already mentioned above, she was also seen a week later on Norwegian NRK TV, performing "Back to Black" with KORK.

In summer

At the end of June she peformed "Feeling Good" at Allsang på Grensen, which was broadcast the next day. A couple days later, she sang "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" at God Sommer Norge from a rooftop, accompanied again by Tommy Kristiansen.

In August, her performance of "Summertime" at the Ønskekonsert [Wish Concert] by KORK was broadcast, which was already recorded in June.

In December

Similar to 2014, she appeared in December on several charity and/or Christmas releated shows:

2017

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[17], 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

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".

Cover Channel started

In September she started to upload to her new, second YouTube channel, the Angelina Jordan CoverChannel. By the end of the year she had posted 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".

TV appearances

Little Big Shots UK and Germany

Angelina is 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 was 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.[18]

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

This year she also had some guest appearences that we know about, which were

Concerts

New Year concerts

From Jan 6th to 8th Angelina had a series of concerts, performing "What a Difference a Day Makes", "Feeling Good", "I Put a Spell on You", "Fly Me to the Moon", and "At Last" with the Oppegård Janitsjar amateur band, directed by Bjørn Morten Kjærnes, in Kolbotn to celebrate the New Year.

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 Summer concert tour 2017 with quite a big jazz band. They performed

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 "Can't Help Falling in Love", "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", "The Christmas Song", "Mary's Boy Child", "Crazy (Willie Nelson song)", and "All I Want for Christmas Is You" 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.

2018

Relocation to Los Angeles

By early March Angelina has relocated to Los Angeles, where she now got accompanied by Ivan Mendez on guitar until the end of summer, both for home studio covers, as well as other events, like the Gala de Danza+ in Mexico.[19]

According to Nico Cartosio, who composed "Song for A", she recorded her vocals in Los Angeles, likely in the 2nd half of 2018, after the instrumentals were recorded in Abbey Road Studios in summer.[20][21]

However, it was also said (and could be observed) that she still shared her time between Los Angeles and Norway.[22]

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"[23]

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.[24] These included her two new orignal songs "What Is Live" 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 many songs from her new album, she also premiered new covers, such as "Rehab" and "Unchain My Heart".

Already two days earlier she had perfomed a few songs 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 2018 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".

2019

Recording

(=> check to include this in overview, also Melting and ATW releases)

Guest appearances

Concerts

Other activities

2020

America's Got Talent: The Champions

TV: America's Got Talent: The Champions+

Recording

Stargate collab

Republic Records

Other activities

2021

Concerts & TV

Recording

  • Q1 Recording: "7th Heaven" released,
  • likely a lot of unknown background activities (cover channel see next section)

Other activities

Cover channel

Movie soundtrack

Online Christmas Show

2022

Recording

Concerts

TV

Other activities

2023

TV

Recording

Headlining Concert

Other activities

2024

Collab with Toby Gad+

Recording (courtesy of Republic Records):

Guest appearances

Headlining Concerts

TV

Other activities

2025

no TV, no concerts

Recording

Other activities

2026

Recording

Concert

  1. ↑ Informasjon↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Information]. Nysirkus Bjerke. Accessed 2026-03-02.
  2. ↑ in all of those videos, where her teeth are visible, it can be seen that they are in the same state as in this first uploaded video, which was uploaded when she was 7, and stated in the title screen that she would be 7
  3. ↑ Se Angelina (8) smelte dommerne med jazz-melankoli↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Watch Angelina (8) melt the judges with jazz melancholy]. VG.no. Accessed 2026-01-24.
  4. ↑ Elise Alexandra Gulbrandsen (2016-06-30). Little Steven om Norge: –⁠ Mitt andre hjem↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Little Steven about Norway: - My second home]. VG.no. Accessed 2026-02-15.
  5. ↑ Borghild Maaland (2014-03-28). Enorm interesse for sangtalentet↗ [in Norwegian] [English: Enormous interest in the singing talent]. VG. Accessed 2026-02-15.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Angelina Jordan - What A Wonderful World - 2 performances - Nobel Peace Prize Concert - Oslo - 2014↗. YouTube. Accessed 2021-01-14.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Angelina Jordan on red carpet for "Lilyhammer" By Netflix↗. Angelina Jordan Official on YouTube. Accessed 2026-02-15.
  11. ↑ List of Lilyhammer episodes↗. Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-02-24.
  12. ↑ Angelina Jordan have concert for Prime Minister (Erna Solberg) and members of the Cabinet↗. Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz on YouTube. Accessed 2024-02-07.
  13. ↑ 2014-06-13 Facebook post by Angelina Jordan Offical↗ with picture of the event
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Angelina Jordan & Mia Gundersen - interview and rehearsal "What A Wonderful World" (eng sub)↗. Yozhik v Tumane on YouTube. Accessed 2021-04-11.
  16. ↑ Angelina Jordan - Feeling Good Live↗. Majestic Mochan on YouTube. Accessed 2021-01-26.
  17. ↑ 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
  18. ↑ Such a beautiful cathedral in Cologne! ❤️ Thank you 🇩🇪 for amazing show and trip!↗
  19. ↑ The Angelina Jordan Story- Ivan Mendez Interview (LA guitarist)↗. Alan Papier on YouTube. Accessed 2026-03-08.
  20. ↑ nico.cartosio↗
  21. ↑ INTERVIEW: Five Minutes with Nico Cartosio↗. The Playground. Accessed 2026-03-08.
  22. ↑ Angelina Jordan (12) interviewed by Skavlan before performing «Shield» in November 2018↗
  23. ↑ Angelina Jordan on Tangerudbakken↗. Angelina Jordan Official on YouTube. Accessed 2022-07-16.
  24. ↑ Angelina Jordan and Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps - It's Magic - Oslo - 16.06.2018↗
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