Rebekka Bakken (born April 4, 1970 in Lier, near

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer who is often associated with

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 ...

, although she refuses to characterise herself as a jazz musician. Her voice reaches over three

octave In music, an octave ( la, octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is the interval between one musical pitch and another with double its frequency. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been refer ...

Career

Bakken began singing in various school bands, before beginning to sing with professional

soul In many religious and philosophical traditions, there is a belief that a soul is "the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being". Etymology The Modern English noun ''soul'' is derived from Old English ''sāwol, sāwel''. The earliest attes ...

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

and rock bands in 1988. She is known for her particularly expressive and varied voice, performing music that is a combination of folk, jazz and pop.

Honors

*2007: Recipient of the

Amadeus Austrian Music Award The Amadeus Austrian Music Awards is the annual awards ceremony for excellence in the Austrian music industry. It has been awarded to the most successful Austrian musicians since 2000, and has been held in the Volkstheater in Vienna each March sin ...

in the category jazz/blues/folk for her album ''I Keep My Cool''

Discography

Solo

* 2003: ''The Art of How to Fall'' (

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown ...

/Universal) * 2005: ''Is That You?'' (Boutique/Universal) * 2006: ''I Keep My Cool'' (EmArcy/Universal) * 2007: ''Building Visions'' (Universal) * 2009: ''Morning Hours'' (EmArcy/Universal) * 2011: ''September'' (EmArcy/Universal) * 2014: '' Little Drop of Poison'' (EmArcy/Universal) * 2016: ''Most Personal'' (EmArcy/Universal) * 2018: ''Things You Leave Behind'' (Okeh/Sony) * 2020: ''Winter Nights'' (Okeh/Sony)

Duo

with

Wolfgang Muthspiel Wolfgang Muthspiel (born 2 March 1965) is an Austrian jazz guitarist and record label owner. He is the brother of musician Christian Muthspiel. Music career When he was six, he began playing violin, and at fourteen he moved on to classical gui ...

* 2000: ''Daily Mirror'' (Material) * 2001: ''Daily Mirror Reflected'' (Material) * 2002: ''Beloved'' with Wolfgang Muthspiel (Material)

Collaborations

* 2003: ''Scattering Poems'' ( ACT), with Julia Hülsmann Trio * 2003: ''Heaven'' (ACT), with

Christof Lauer Christof Lauer (born 25 May 1953) is a German jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, born in Melsungen, Germany, perhaps most well known in Europe where he has done projects with various musicians, such as Palle Danielsson, Carla Bley,

& Norwegian Brass with

Sondre Bratland Sondre is a Norwegian masculine given name. The name began to become more common in the 1960s, and became roughly twelve times as popular from 1980 to 1990 before declining in popularity thereafter. As of 2017, there were 9,111 men in Norway with ...

Geir Lysne Geir Øystein Lysne (born 9 October 1965 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composer, arranger) and a famous Big Band leader. Career Geir Lysne is a Norwegian conductor, composer, produser and teacher, educate ...

References

External links

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Site at Universal

Rebekka Bakken – Same Kind (official Video) HD
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