Noora is Norway's soul sensation. Usually referred to as the Scandinavian queen of soul, her first album "Curious" sold around 50.000 in total and won Noora the Norwegian Hit Award for Best Female Artist. Her hit "Need you" was one of the first Nordic videos to spin on The Lick / MTV and was Stargates first success. Noora also won the prize for Best Live Artist after her first Norwegian tour.
Her next album, recorded in London and New York took a while to finish as Noora got ill and had to stop all recording for 2 years. Noora is now busy recording her third album. The album titled “Ocean of me” will be out this year.
In 2005 Noora participated in Nelson Mandela's 46664 Concert and she is now an ambassador for the 46664 Aids Awareness program.
Noora Noor was collaborating with Mike Scott from the Waterboys on the single “In The Beginning Was Love”, a song Mike has written for One People – the peace organisation. Noora also released a new single with renowned hiphop producer Tommy Tee and Jojo Pellegrino last Autumn. The song was called “Feelin it”. Noora also participates and has co-written a song on the new MadCon album.
Here is her own story:
At the age of five I was thrown on to the stage to perform at my local school in Dubai. Since then I’ve always loved being on stage, and the stage is where I was discovered and offered a record deal at the age of sixteen. Growing up, there was always music in our house. Anything from Aretha Franklin to Arabic folk music. My aunt had an amazing voice, but conformed to Muslim tradition and was never able to pursue a professional career. Luckily my parents have been supportive of my choices, but I still try to be respectful of my faith and family.
My father is from Somalia, but had to flee to the United Arabian Emirates when he was only seventeen. That’s where he met my mother, who was born in Yemen. I was born in Dubai, and had a very happy childhood, but we were forced to move away when my father became ill and couldn’t support us there. Coincidence led us to Norway, which despite everything we’d heard and feared was both welcoming and warm.
Having three different languages and cultures to relate to by the age of nine wasn’t always easy. And there were hard times, especially when my father returned to Somalia to fight in the civil war. But I prefer to think of my experiences, both good and bad, as an opportunity to learn and overcome. I chose Curious as my first album title because I feel that my curiosity and openness have taught me invaluable lessons, and have made me the person I am today.
I had a close working relationship with the StarGate team and Tim Blacksmith on the first album. As this was near to a starting point for both StarGate and me, we learned a lot from each other and managed to record an album I was very happy with.
After a couple of Norwegian tours I got a role as Maria in Jesus Christ Superstar from the director Bentein Baardsson. It was a great experience and was performed outside in great surroundings of Agder Theatre's stage in Grimstad. Doing a musical and having to sing everyday rain or shine taught me some good lessons on the use of the vocal chords.
When recording a second album I wanted to have more control of the writing process on my own. The songs on “All I Am” were written by me in collaboration with some great songwriters in US and UK who I really have been thrilled working with. All I Am was a steppingstone for me into writing my own material and being more confident in my own writing.
My third album is very much in process now. This time I have written all the music by myself. I have been collaborating with a lot of talented Norwegians in this process, Tommy Tee. Johnny and Kim from DSound, Hittesh, my own band and Magnus Beite at Espionage have all been participating in parts of this new album.
Noora is my real name, it’s Arabic and means ”God’s light” – a guiding light or beacon to help you along. Hopefully my music can bring some light and happiness into peoples lives in spite of sadness, surrounding threats of violence, terror, racism or even just too much stress in peoples lives..
Tusen takk for adden, kjæreste Noora!! Du er så utrolig dyktig, har alltid vært bergtatt av stemmen din, en av Norges desidert beste!!! Håper du får en fantastisk fin helg i like godt vær som vi har her nå i Bergen - SÅ SKJØNT!!! Sender med et par traller, håper du ikke har noe i mot det og at du til og med kanskje kan like det?!;D
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Gracias amiga! We are honored to be included among your friends. May there be ' PEACE ' and JUSTICE and LAND for all Indigenous Peoples. And may there be no more campaigns of terror and genocide in the state of CHIAPAS, Mexico. Please hold our cause in your heart!
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Hei Noora Noor! Takk for 'adden'! Din støtte betyr mye for oss c",)
Malaria Fakta:
- Malaria tar livet av 3,000 barn hver eneste dag i Afrika, eller - ett barn hvert 30. sekund.
- Malaria er fullt mulig å forebygge og å behandle, noe som gjør alle dødsfall p.g.a. malaria fullstendig unødvendige.
- Malaria smitter mellom 350 and 500 millioner mennesker hvert år.
- 90% av malaria tilfellene opptrer i Afrika, og majoriteten av de som dør av malaria på verdensbasis (1-3 millioner hvert år), er afrikanske barn under 5 år. (40% av verdens befolkning, i over 100 land, lever i konstant risiko for å få malaria!).
- Malaria kan føre til koma, hjerneskade, livstruende anemi (blodmangel) og død.
- Malaria er en blodsykdom forårsaket av en parasitt overførsel fra person til person av en spesiell type mygg.
OG VIKTIGST AV ALT…
- For bare US $5 kan du sørge for at livreddende myggnett til barn i risikosonen beskytter barna fra å få malaria i opp til 5 år!
Gå til Team Scandinavia's side, du kan også redde et barn i dag.. c",)
Noora is Norway's soul sensation. Usually referred to as the Scandinavian queen of soul, her first album "Curious" sold around 50.000 in total and won Noora the Norwegian Hit Award for Best Female Artist. Her hit "Need you" was one of the first Nordic videos to spin on The Lick / MTV and was Stargates first success. Noora also won the prize for Best Live Artist after her first Norwegian tour.
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