Nora Brockstedt (20 January 1923 – 5 November 2015) was a Norwegian singer. In her last years, she focused more on the

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

genre, with successful albums like ''As Time Goes By'' (JazzAvdelingen, 2004) and ''Christmas Songs'' (JazzAvdelingen, 2005). She sang jazz in the 1960s, but was more known for her 'conventional' pop songs. She died after a short illness at Ullevaal Hospital in Oslo on 5 November 2015.Norwegians mourn Brockstedt’s death
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brockstedt, Nora 1923 births 2015 deaths Musicians from Oslo Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1960 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1961 Melodi Grand Prix contestants Melodi Grand Prix winners Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Norway Norwegian women jazz singers 20th-century Norwegian women singers 21st-century Norwegian women singers 21st-century Norwegian singers

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