"VIBEY, INSPIRATIONAL POP WITH ARRESTINGLY SOULFUL VOCALS“
„VIBEY, INSPIRATIONAL POP WITH ARRESTINGLY SOULFUL VOCALS“
„It’s something I’ve never seen before. She’s amazing. A huge star of the future, I guarantee it.
”British songwriter Lee Horrocks offers up the kind of superlatives that seem to be following Yohanna wherever she goes these days. The 18 year old singer has been a multi-platinum star in her native Iceland since the age of nine, but in the last few years some of the biggest names in music have lined up to work with her. What do they see in the young singer? Horrocks cuts right to the chase:
„It’s all about the voice. It’s very pure, very original. She’s a star.”
But maybe it’s more than that. How does a girl from a tiny island nation catch the attention of some of the biggest names in music, both in America and Europe?
That is, of course, the million dollar question, although it shouldn‘t be surprising that the land of Björk and Sigur Rós has produced yet another unique talent. Certainly it starts with the voice and that amazing purity of sound. Maria Björk is a well-known performer in Iceland and runs its premier singer’s school:
„Yohanna has an amazing voice; you can hear that immediately. But what sets her apart as a singer, and especially one so young, is the complete control she has.”
But along with the sound is an intangible magic not often seen in someone so young. Onstage, she blooms, seemingly inhabited by a soul much older than her own. Veteran recording engineer Thomas Yezzi, who‘s been mixing the new cd, has his own take on the transformation:
„She’s a 17 year old, white Icelandic girl with the soul of a 50 year old black woman. She’s really amazing.”
It‘s something everybody seems to be saying: Amazing. Pure. Unique. As with all great artists, it may be impossible to understand the “why.” And in the end, all that matters is the voice. That voice. Listen for a few seconds, and you realize, as Maria says:
„She can do anything!”
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Dear Yohanna, please come to us to Dublin, Ireland I know that you probably have different plans, but come on we did give you 12 points. I bet that if I would go into town right now, I would be able to find at least one thousand people that would want you to perform here.
yours truly, Niko
btw, I wanted to ask you: "What was the biggest crowd in front of which you have sung?" ( I just want to know 'cause my biggest crowd was four thousand people and that was in the irish parliament )
Hi Yohanna, okay? Thank you for adding me and sorry for the delay in responding. I heard their music on Last.fm, are wonderful. You have a beautiful voice and a pretty face too. Keep it up. Well, for now that's it. Good luck and a great week for you. You're beautiful!!! "An angel-like women." Do not forget that.
Heeeey, Yohanna - it’s been a while :) - and how are you, hope things are good, are they?... Listen, I have a favor to ask you, could I? Since my picture won at the monthly level & Round 1, I got nominated for the LongHair Hawtie of the Year. Round 2 ends in a few days and... - was hoping for those 6 votes from you ;)
So... this is where you would cast a vote. Yeah, you do need to get accepted as a friend before you can vote, but they’re nice girls (the hawtie folks), no harm whatsoever :) http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=188240006&albumId=1967536
Just look for my profile picture on the last row
Thank you so much already, In appreciation, - Armand
PS. a very 'evil' thought - maybe you can tell your friends to vote too? ;)
Tune into Ready for the Weekend on Friday at 4.30pm which includes an interview and music from Yohanna which will be online on www.wdar.ie West Dublin Access Radio.
Hi Yohanna, I've first heard you as million people while watching to the last ESC, and your performance had been like a huge slap on my face, I had never heard such a voice, and I'm deeply certain you have a so brilliant carrier ahead... I love your album, every song is fantastic, don't change anything to your way of singing, I especially love your voice on the verse of "the river is dry" Just one question : do you have any idea, even approximately, about when will "Butterflies and Elvis" be released in other european countries, and especially in France ? Thank you so much for all the magic vibrations that echoes on my ears !
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! hope I could congratulate you in person with hugs!! lol Hope you had an awesome day,hope your whishes come true, stay sweet,elegant,kind,elated....and stay as everything that describes an ANGEL!! :D god bless Yohanna my dear!! you rock!! :D
YOHANNA, I WANT THAT YOU ALWAYS WERE HAPPY THIS VERSE FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!)))))))
In our life sizes are variable: All changes are habits, addresses, We are more reasonable and stepenny. Here and again anniversaries bar. Anniversaries, anniversaries - after each other, Kind occasion, that going at the table, Bring a result losses and merits, to Talk traditionally about passing. Children become on feet, maturing, Life streams, as if blood on the river-beds of veins. But, probably, main sense at an anniversary - It the quite not chainlet of changes. Strews age news abundantly Only to life all attach us not they - and, that always and stably, That gives us forces and durability stocked. Kindness and joint participation unchanging, And to this day warm us, keeping, Those friends, that found in a school class, Now for us - not less than, than bringing together. With a birthday, with an anniversary, dear! Give us God to be alongside many the years. Let a fate keeps you, guarding From large and even smallest misfortunes!
Happy birthday, northern princess Yohanna! I and other your admirers from www.yohanna.ru wish you happiness, love, health, creative success and victories in different song contests. You are the best.
Song of love Star night in a taiga, Tents stand at the river. Do you want, will sing you Song of the love? I long searched words – By sinful land walked, Rose for clouds, Searched, but did not find. A backpack bent my back, I had fallen a stone from rocks, I sank in the rivers of mountain – about love searched Words. I know a secret now – So long searched because words these far from it - Quite they it is not good. I long on light Ot fermented at home in the distance knowingly, I the soul opened it – Without words you will understand me. Fog stands above the river, sunset will climb Soon, Quietly at night Song of love sounds my.
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
