Bitter and sweet

by Petar PLAMENOV

25 May (Wednesday)
21:00 - Cæcilie Norby, Danmark 15/20BGN
Sofia Live Club
Wireless internet
Address:
Sofia, 1 Bulgaria Square,
NPC, subway with the fountains
Working time: 20:00–07:00


Cæcilie Norby likes to challenge herself all the time as she states herself: With her new album "Slow Fruit", Caecilie Norby casts off again—her voice ever so soulful, mature and expressive. The 43 years-old Danish singer, privately and professionally closely associated with bass player Lars Danielsson likes good songwriting with strong lyrics that she calls "self biographical fiction". The Music criticism is generous to her and enthusiastically wrote about her voice: "Cæcilie Norby's voice is lyrical and subtle. Improvisations and scats are done with elegance. Her phrasing can be both down-to-earth and romantic. She can radiate anything from sweet and vulnerable to the crude and powerful ".



The famous Danmark vocalist was born on 9 September 1964 in Fredriksberg, Denmark, into a musical family: her father, Erik Norby, is a renowned score composer, and her mother, Solveig Lumholt, an opera singer. The family's only record with rhythmic music was one with the singer Nancy Wilson, and together with the Beatles tapes it became well worn. She went to the singing school of Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, and then followed a year at a folk high school with theatre as her main subject.
In the summer of 1982, when she participated at a jazz festival at Brandbjerg, she was one of the founders of Street Beat, and she was the vocalist in this group for the next 18 months. From 1983 she was part of the jazz/funk group Frontline, which was awarded the Ben Webster Prize in 1985 and in the same year recorded the album Frontline. In the former Danish music magazine MM, a readers' poll bestowed prizes on the orchestra for "Jazz Act of the Year", "Live Act of the Year", "Most Promising Act", "Album of the Year" and Cæcilie elected "Soloist of the Year". She has also toured with various groups and has performed several times with the Danish Radio Big Band.

Cæcilie Norby has been celebrated by fans, critics and many of the world's greatest musicians. In Europe she was one of the very first who contributed to bridge the gap between Jazz and the young traditionally rock oriented audiences. She has released 4 of her 8 solo albums on the prestigious BLUE NOTE Records, received awards and selling thousands of albums in Europe, US, Japan and South Africa.

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