Not bad for a 9 year old. Take a fifties classic song by Screaming Jay Hawkins, arrange the music and then sing like a 40 year old jazz singer. This girl is a gift to us all. Welcome to Angelina's world.
You have now started... Down the "Rabbit Hole" you go - ENJOY the Ride!!! You will soon find (as you continue to react more & more to her) who ANGELina is! Her beautiful soulful sound Touches the soul of many a listener. That is = Angelina Jordan. And a sidetone: Take a note of your current sub numbers then - if you continue to record your reactions to her other songs and renditions - Your Sub Numbers will skyrocket!
Maybe you fast forward to “Bohemian Rhapsody” AGT iconic song, and then the most recent her own “Now I’m the fool”, so you get a view of her capabilities. Then you step back to Norwegian Got Talent (and the studio record at 6 yr.) watching from where it all started. Then you have 200 more amazing songs to admire. Angeline never compromise and every word that comes over her lips she places vocally with a purpose. Well, see for yourself and you’ll agree to most what now is feed backed to your reaction.
Thanks for a great reaction, my first time on your channel and subscribed. Also, a fellow Canadian form southern Ontario. I have just read every comment below and can say with conviction that every commentator here has likely drastically held back their feelings about Angelina so as not to overwhelm you with their love and positivity of her. You have heard about the 500 roses given to Angelina at Portsmouth; I can tell you that I am the originator of that rose drive. After deciding I wanted to do this, I contacted a florist in Portsmouth and the theater, then gave the marketing job to James Theil who did an amazing job putting it all together. Angelina responded with "What are you guy's doing to me, what a surprise, I Love youuuu". If you want to hear more, let me know. 😀
Welcome to the birth of a legend. Here’s a little background info on Angelina. “When I sing I go to another world. The world is endless. It's like, full of happiness. I love it. It's amazing. And when I am on stage, I don't want to go [leave the stage]. [laughing]. I just want to be on stage" A snippet of Skaylan’s interview of Angelina Jordan (age 12) on Norwegian TV - November 2018. ♥👣👸🏻🎷 What you will soon realize is that Angelina today at 17 Angelina is already the best Jazz singer on the Planet! IMO Soon to be one of the Best Vocalists of All Time. ♥👣👸🏻 Angelina won Norway's Got Talent when she was 8 yrs old after starting the competition at 7 yrs old. The youngest winner of any Got Talent show on the planet. She had to wait two years because you had to be 7 yrs old to enter. She started with a rendition of Billie Holiday's 'Gloomy Sunday' which she just infused with Billie's soul. She followed this by another Billie classic with a pitch perfect rendition of 'I'm a Fool to Want You' acapella. Her next performance was a beautiful rendition of 'Bang, Bang' by Sonny & Cher and performed most famously by Nancy Sinatra. She won the competition with what I consider her first Masterpiece performance of 'Summertime' by George Gershwin. Shortly after winning she was designated a National Treasure by the Norwegian people. ♥👣👸🏻 There is video of Angelina recorded by her mother Sarah Astar singing a couple of lines of "I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston when she was 18 months old. She started studying all the greats of Jazz soon after under the guidance of her Iranian Grandmother Mery Zamani a child prodigy in her own right as an artist and poet. English is Angelina's 3rd language behind Norwegian and Farsi along with Japanese and some German and perhaps more. She did this from 2 & 3 yrs old by scrolling thru UA-cam of all their most Iconic performance. Angelina doesn't just mimic these greats, she reinterprets them and then simply sings them the way they were meant to be sung. She makes them her own. Angelina was begging her mother to go on "that Simon show" when she was 3 yrs old. encouraged to sing children songs, she would have none of that. Angelina chooses her own songs and she is absolutely fearless. No song is too big and no artist is too Iconic. All the most Iconic songs by the most Iconic singers in music history. Angelina has said singing to her is as important to her as breathing. ♥👣👸🏻 She will sing anything Acapella at any time and often does. Her Tic-Toc is full of these impromptu performances wherever she might be whether in the car, walking around the neighborhood or in a parking Garage. Accompanied by most often a simple guitar or piano her performances are always incredible. Add a band or even a full orchestra as in her performance for Quincy Jones at his request singing his arrangement of 'Fly Me to the Moon'. The same arrangement he did for Frank Sinatra. This opened for his 85th birthday celebration at the 02 Arena in London. ♥👣👸🏻 She is well known worldwide in the industry. Her family and Angelina have been holding back turning down many of the biggest in the industry while she finishes school. Remember she just turned 17 January 10th. They finally signed with Republic Records about three years ago after getting a deal that gave her control of her artistic vision and has since released 2 originals, 'Million Miles' & '7th Heaven' plus the opening soundtrack for the New Movie "The Hating Game" with her song 'Mercy' performed most notably by Duffy. Republic has labeled her their Highest Priority and assigned a team to her including Rob Christy a multiple Grammy Winner, often on the piano in many of her performances and a whole team of equally qualified professionals. She has worked with some of the best musicians in the industry and always get exactly what she wants. Some call her the Boss and have immense respect for her. She is due to release her 1st album promised by Angelina to be soon. She has been diligently perfecting her craft since winning Norway's Got Talent singing all over the world, Germany, Japan, Korea as well as TV appearances such as The View, Little Big Shots and most notably America's Got Talent where she premiered her Iconic Performance of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which Queen gave her the copyright for. Her version is available on iTunes and Spotify & is included on her Album 'Magic' which she released on her own along with a Christmas Song collection. After Heidi's golden buzzer for her audition of BR, Angelina went directly to the finals where she sang YBR. After the "secret voting", she placed 6th in the competition and was eliminated from the competition. After first refusing to sign with AGT because of contract demands, a re-worked contract was eventually signed which freed Angelina from any commitments or record deal if she performed. She has also sung for Many Heads of State including Barack Obama and a couple of songs opening for Norah Jones in Korea. She also sang at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert at 8 yrs old for Malala and another recipient. Mostly she has sung for charities helping raise millions for children charities and climate change. The great part is that most of it has been well documented often by herself and her family. Her Grandmother who introduced her to Jazz at 3 & 4 yrs old is behind the camera more than anyone else. Love the reactions. Get ready for a deep dive. She is worth it! Love from the Land of Vikings ♥👣👸🏻 Why Angelina always performs barefoot♥👣 For those who do not know. At age 6, while traveling in the Middle East with her mother and grandmother, Angelina noticed a girl around her age standing on the side of the road asking people to step on her bathroom scale to be weighed in hopes of getting some money. Angelina took off her shoes so as to not get the scale dirty and stepped on the scale many times to make the girl feel better. Angelina befriends the girl who was not wearing shoes and has scars on her feet, and learns she is an orphan. The orphan girl tells Angelina how beautiful she thinks her shoes are. Angelina says her shoes don’t fit her well and she wants to give her shoes to the orphan girl who thanks Angelina for giving her the shoes. Angelina asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and the girl replied, “I want to become a doctor, but that will never happen since I have no parents and I have siblings so I have to do whatever is necessary for us to survive.” Angelina told the girl to never give up on her dreams. The poor girl asked Angelina what she wanted to be when she grew up and Angelina replied that she wanted to sing for the whole world. The poor girl said she would pray every day so Angelina’s dream would come true. Angelina says she still thinks of that homeless girl every day and has always performed barefoot to remind her of all the children who are less fortunate. At age 9, she became the youngest published author in Norway’s history by writing a book about this encounter in the Middle East. 'Between Two Hearts' Angelina Jordan interviewed by Anne Lindmo, NRK TV "Lindmo" 14/11/2015 (eng & esp sub) ua-cam.com/video/-cCLDY0CSZ8/v-deo.html ♥👣👸🏻🎷
Hi Angel D 👋 Welcome of the world from our Angel 😇Angelina ?? Angelina is in n this song 9 years young and the Band call She The "Boss" This is a song from original screaming Jay Hawkins 1956! Angelina sings crazy 🤪 good! She is a natural talent! and prodigy girl and magical! now beautiful young Lady Queen ofJazz 👸🎺🎸!!! Angelina call 😯 us all her Angels 😇 not (Fans) that is special and unique!!! I am a new subscriber to your channel and a true loyal Big, Big Angelina Angel 😇(Fan) !! Angelina enchanted me in this song 💫 I was speechless 😶 at the end of the song!! If you close your eyes you think a 40 year old black, experienced jazz singer is singing the song incredibly mature!!! I am now 67 years old and have been a music expert in all styles of music for over 40 years 🎸 🎹 but I have never heard 😲 or seen 👁 anything like Angelina in my musical career! We have to support you! support financially! and protect! She is unique! and specially! and magical! Angelina gibt mir always chills 🤯 lächeln 😊 und tränen 🥲 in meine Augen bei Ihren Liedern so! beautiful! so heartwarming♥️and soul ✨️touching! Angelina ist Life noch besser unglaublich magisch! Sie singt mit Herz♥️blut🩸I Love♥️♥️♥️ it She is magical💫 Angelina sings 😲 cover from Billy Holiday, Etta James, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Adele, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Elvis, Freddy Mercury, Denis Joplin, Nina Simone, Jay Hawkins, Rhianna, Aretha Franklin, from all these great singers!!! Angelinas soulful,💫 mature, emotional, smooth, warmth, breath, powerfull, extremely raspy, sassy, old soul ✨️Voice 😲 is out of this world 🌍 She will be become a Legend 100% sure !! I love ♥️♥️♥️ it! Nobody is like Angelina! She is untacheboul! magical! so unique!!! Great, great, reaction and comments "Angel 😇 D" 👍👌👏 love ♥️ and peace ✌️☮️ and kindness 😀 have a great Week, time, work, and music time 👌👌greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭 🇨🇭🇨🇭 😇👣👰👸🎙 🎺🎷 🎸 🎼❤️🔥💥🔥💎👋💁♂️ Ps: "Angelina" and "Dimash" two true ones! real! loving ♥️! emotional❤️🔥! passionate💥 angel! 😇 😇 who always tell a story when they sing like angels 😇 😇! with heart ♥️ and soul ✨️🌟 The 2 best singers in the world 🌍 !! Angelina is a generational talent 😲💥 Something never seen before! She is the truth 💫 and a gift to all of us Angels 😇 and every person 🌍! Always supports you! so that your dream of creating a loving ♥️ world 🌍 comes true, with your love ♥️ and voice 😲! tell all your friends! Please🙏support Angelina our Angel😇! in your You Tube Original and Covers channel thank you 👏👌 very much!! Give a👍thumbs up and write a comment📝 in AJ's Channels thanks🙏 👏 She deserves it a thousand times over! This helps Angelina a lot to become even better known 😀!!
She has the power and Energy from the beginning of her life 🧬now Old Enough to break out with her new Ep of this name 💕💯 Also her new Single.. Our Time is out now on the way to a New Album ✌️
Angelina Jordan 17 years, the best among the best, an outstanding vocalist, totally unique and original style, she is also an extraordinary composer, she demonstrated it with her 7 new songs from her new LP, Mexico
Hello! This is my 1st time seeing you and your channel, and I really loved your reaction. I have a very strong feeling that we will be seeing you again, reacting to this VERY special singer. Today she is 17 years old, (she will turn 18 on January 10th) and I have already for a couple of years considered her to be the best female singer in world. That's a very subjective opinion, but one that I know that I share with a LOT of other people as well. I have been following her ever since she auditioned on a Norwegian talent show when she was 7 years old, a competition that she won. By that time she had just turned 8. Now, if you react more to her, I'm extremely curious to see what you think. I trust that my fellow fans have already put you in the right direction for your next reaction. Needless to say, I have subscribed to your channel for more reactions to her! Have a great Sunday and take care. Greetings from Norway 👍
Seriously, mark your calendar and next year do a year in review. With over 200 videos you can watch the life of a prodigy and see the impact she has. Her voice makes the day better❤ it never diminishes.
A barefoot princess with a hypnotic voice. She was only 9 years old when she performed this song. It is her tribute to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, an American singer/songwriter. He wrote and performed it in 1956 and Angelina based her performance on the original, although she did make some subtle alterations to both lyrics and melody. As you continue your journey of discovering Angelina, you will come to realise that she does her own arrangements of most of the cover songs she sings. The differences may not be immediately discernible on first listening to them, but they are there. There may be a subtle change in tempo or tone, or more inflexion on some words, or a phrase may differ in pitch from the original. The amount of control that Angelina has over her voice cannot be measured. She never hurries a song. She sings in such a way that the emotions in the lyrics are felt by the listener. In this video did you notice:Angelina finishing some notes and handing them to the pianist, who smiled as he read them? They were her wishes (instructions) to the band how she wished therm to play the music. In the band, she was called a boss.
Hi Angel, the name fits because she calls her fans Angels, nice that you took a little look into Angelina's rabbit hole. She was 9 years old when she heard this song and she arranged it herself based on the original by Screaming Jay Hawkins from 1956. She won Norway's Got Talent at the age of 8 with songs by Billie Holiday, Nancy Sinatra, and the song Summertime by Gershwin. You are at the very beginning and I hope that you embark on the further journey because there is a lot to discover, she is the best singer in the world in my opinion) but you will find out for yourself and believe me, you are just as addicted to her voice as all other fans (Angels), she is also called the barefoot angel with the 1000 voices, why she always performs barefoot is another story, she can adapt and improve her voice to any song and also convey a lot of emotions and not only does she have around 200 covers but also 12 originals written by her as well as 2 written for her, all of which are amazing and even now legendary and there's a lot to talk about, her new EP all originals I can't decide which is the best song is. The whole EP is such a masterpiece and so well written by her, all I can say is she is outstanding and by far the best singer of this decade or century and Diamond is an even bigger surprise I have never experienced one in my entire life EP only contains number 1 songs, each of the 6 songs is a hit and grammy worthy. I hope that Republic Records will finally start the promo engine and it will be played on the radio and TV, only UA-cam is not enough. The crazy thing is that she said that the EP with 6 songs is a small selection of over 100 songs that she has already written, that gives hope for the future, that we will be surprised with even more beautiful songs. I look forward to further reactions and have now subscribed to you, by the way, she is now 17 years old, greetings from Germany,
Great reaction to a vocal tour-de-force! You've done it now. You have fallen into the vortex of Angelina Jordan who arguably brings the most confident, versatile, seemingly effortless, and fearless vocal artistry found today (whether measured across artists, genres, or decades). You may think this an exaggeration but listen to a few more of her many performances (170+ covers plus original songs - all on YT) and you will see! She has been performing at a high level all over the world since age 8 when she won Norway's Got Talent singing Billie Holiday, Nancy Sinatra, and Gershwin. It is the rare singer that can, as Angelina has done, go from Queen to "Screamin" Jay Hawkins to Adele to Elvis to Whitney Houston to Michael Jackson to Etta James to James Brown to Amy Winehouse to the Beatles (and many others in between) and do them all justice! If you want to hear music, listen to anyone. If you want to feel music, listen to Angelina. She will stagger you with her ability to find and bring forth the 'essence', the emotional message of nearly any song. You have far to go with Angelina. She is equally comfortable and equally able to impact us whether singing a cappella, accompanied only by a piano or guitar, in front of professional studio musicians or a 40-piece military band. With her immense vocal toolkit, arranging ability (yeah, that too, since about 8yo or so) and the work ethic to make what she does only 'seem' effortless, she will hopefully be touching hearts for a long time to come. Why God has performed the miracle of touching the world with one of such talent, musical IQ, commitment, and generosity as Angelina we can wonder but we must all marvel. Welcome aboard the AJ train! Please react to more of her impressive library. It is truly a conundrum when we try to rationalize how it is possible that this tiny sweet-faced 9yo Norwegian girl can step up to a microphone, flip some switch within her, become this "beast-mode" version of herself (most probably named "AJ don't play"), deliver an extraordinary and musically and socially sophisticated performance, then just-like-that return to the pensive young lady once again... There aren't words for this! "I Put a Spell On You" has been covered many times and is recognized as a classic, yet almost never is the tone of the original 1956 "Screamin" Jay Hawkins version captured. This is because Hawkins was the original shock rock guy (think Ozzy Osbourne-type craziness) and his style is difficult to emulate and also because his dated delivery is uncomfortable and stereotypical to our modern sensibilities. Yet Angelina respectfully sings his own song in a manner that exceeds his (Hawkin's image is on the candle she holds at the start of her video). You must go and listen to Hawkins' original (and throw in a couple of "famous" covers as well) to see the true genius in how AJ incorporates many of his vocal elements [usually omitted by most singers]. This shows another aspect of her musical IQ and arranging genius (not to mention her masterful control of her vocal instrument equaled by few others regardless of age). "Screamin" Jay Hawkins original "I Put A Spell on You" ua-cam.com/video/orNpH6iyokI/v-deo.html
Absolutely phenomenal performance from our barefoot princess, Angelina actually arranges this herself at 9 years old, she is paying tribute to the original artist Screaming J Hawkins a blues musician from the 1950s , Angelina is commanding the performance she is the boss , welcome to Angelina Jordan Astar , Angelina won Norway’s Got Talent at 8 years old,Angelina’s Grandmother Mery Zamani who is a talented Iranian artist and poet, is Angelina’s greatest inspiration and influence Mery introduced Angelina to the old classic songs and Jazz when Angelina was 1 1/2 years old, Angelina has around 200 upgrades of covers, and original songs to , Angelina signed with Republic Records at 14 years old and her Uncle Mike is her manager, I’ve been following Angelina for many years now and have attended live concerts in her home country Norway 🇳🇴 one concert when Angelina was 12 years old and another live concert in 2022 , also I attended Angelina’s latest live concert this year in Portsmouth USA 🇺🇸, Angelina is a present 17 years old, And is a stunning singer songwriter, my advice is to follow Angelina’s journey from 6 years old to present day , great reaction thanks 🙏
I've been a music fan since the 60's, but I had never seen/heard anything like Angelina when I stumbled on her nearly 6 years ago when she was 12 yo & had just moved from Norway to LA where she currently resides. I see the other "Angels" have filled you in with her backstory, so I will just like & subscribe for your discovery journey of Angelina & I predict in 5 years she will be a "household name" around the World. Congratulations, you just won the Music Lottery!
Please continue the Angelina Jordan journey I promise you will truly enjoy it and be surprised there’s a lot out there for you to listen to!! We have truly been blessed with this young lady. She’s truly God’s creation ,I’m 68 listen to tons music over my lifetime and when I pass, I know I will with a smile on my face because I have been lucky enough to witness Angelina Jordan!!
Angelina is a gift to all of us, of love, beauty, compassion, and her once-in-a-generation vocals. All this talent, and a heart to match. For me, she is the epitome of what we can be, should be, even if we couldn't sing a lick. I like her a lot. I wish we had more of her.
That top notch professional studio production is one of the best early indications of the enormity of how fortunate Angelina was to have everything imaginable available to go with her extraordinary talent. Thankfully her family had the means and wisdom to provide all of best for Angelina.
It’s obvious that Angelina was genetically endowed with highly advanced and evolved musical intuition, instincts, intelligence, feel and and ear for perfect pitch. She is a force of nature that we not only listen to her other worldly talent, but she is a life altering experience.
Born Angelina Jordan Astar on January 10, 2006 in Oslo, Norway to her Norwegian mother, Sara Astar and her Swedish father, Gerry Christian Slattman. Angelina started singing around 18 months of age, after listening to Whitney Houston on UA-cam. She quickly became obsessed with listening to music videos and her maternal grandmother, Mery Zamani got Angelina interested in classic jazz. Mery Zamani is Iranian and was a prodigy as an artist and poet while growing up in Iran. Angelina attended the Oslo Waldorf School and participated in the Oslo School of Music and Performing Arts after-school program, where starting around age 4, she had training in music but no vocal training. Her teachers were smart enough to not attempt to change what she was doing vocally. More recently she along with her grandmother have designed and made the clothing she wears on stage. Why Angelina always performs barefoot At age 6, while traveling in the Middle East with her mother and grandmother, Angelina noticed a girl around her age standing on the side of the road, asking people to step on her bathroom scale to be weighed in hopes of getting some money. Angelina took off her shoes so as to not get the scale dirty and stepped on the scale many times to make the girl feel better. Angelina befriends the girl who was not wearing shoes and has scars on her feet, and learns she is an orphan. The orphan girl tells Angelina how beautiful she thinks her shoes are. Angelina says her shoes don’t fit her well and she wants to give her shoes to the orphan girl who thanks Angelina for giving her the shoes. Angelina asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and the girl replied, “I want to become a doctor, but that will never happen since I have no parents and I have siblings so I have to do whatever is necessary for us to survive.” Angelina told the girl to never give up on her dreams. The poor girl asked Angelina what she wanted to be when she grew up and Angelina replied that she wanted to sing for the whole world. The poor girl said she would pray every day so Angelina’s dream would come true. Angelina still says she thinks of that homeless girl every day and has always performed barefoot to remind her of all the children who are less fortunate. At age 9, she became the youngest published author in Norway’s history by writing a book about this encounter in the Middle East. PLEASE PURCHASE Angelina’s book from her merchandise store on her official website, angelinajordanofficial Angelina, at age 6 and 7, did record a few songs in a recording studio at her school, most notably “I Who Have Nothing”, a truly remarkable performance for a 7 year old. At age 7, Angelina’s audition on Norway’s Got Talent, was a cover of Billie Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday”, a song which was banned by a number of European countries during World War II because authorities worried the song would increase the suicide rate. Truly bizarre that this is the song to launch the career of a child musical prodigy. One of the judges on NGT cried. Angelina had turned 8 years old for her next performance on NGT, covering Billie Holiday’s “I’m a Fool to Want You” singing acapella which was required by NGT unless the singer also played an instrument while singing. This was the Judge’s cut round of the competition and was not performed in front of an audience. In the Semi Final round of NGT, Angelina sang “Bang Bang” which was written by Sonny Bono and was first performed by his wife Cher but is best known sung by Nancy Sinatra. The improvement in each performance is incredible even though there were only a couple months between them. In the Finals, Angelina did a cover of George Gershwin’s, “Summertime” and won the contest, capturing 46% of the votes from the ten finalists. When asked what she would like to do with the prize money she won (500,000 kroner or about $80,000), Angelina replied, “I want to give it to the poor children”. Angelina had become a star in her native Norway and her videos on UA-cam went viral. She gave a few concerts during the summer of 2014 while 8 years old. In December 2014, Angelina realized a life-long desire to sing at the Save the Children's Peace Prize Celebration which is part of the Noble Peace Prize celebration. Angelina’s family took her to United States, Brazil, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Singapore among other corners of Earth, to perform for heads of state and to help raise money for charity. All before Angelina turned 14. At age 9, Angelina recorded a music video covering the 1956 Jay Hawkin’s classic, “I Put a Spell On You”. The video begins by showing Angelina writing her “wishes” for how she wants to perform the song. Angelina has always created her own arrangements for her cover songs. At age 10 and just a week before her 11th birthday, Angelina recorded a demo of “I’m Still Holding Out for You”. Her family never pursued having that recording officially released but someone leaked it on a UA-cam video. Thankfully, everyone involved with that song is now ok with the leaked version. Many angels (fans) believe this is one of Angelina’s best performances. When Angelina was 11, she performed a number of concerts in Norway with a jazz/rock band. Those concerts included up to 14 songs, each remarkably performed. Angelina seems to be at her best when on stage, never nervous, only 100% confident. Also at age 11, Angelina recorded her “It’s Magic” album which has, at times, been in the top 10 best selling jazz albums. On June 27, 2018, at age 12, Jordan performed Frank Sinatra “Fly Me to the Moon” for Quincy Jones in The O2 Arena in London. She has said that was the high point of her young career which was already in it’s 6th year. During 2018, Angelina lost her paternal grandfather, her friend Avicii and one of her idols, Aretha Franklin. She did a moving tribute for each. In 2019, Angelina accepted an invitation to compete in the 2nd season of America’s Got Talent (AGT), The Champions. She had, since age 3, wanted to perform for Simon Cowell and she earned his praise with her genius arrangement of “Bohemian Rhapsody”. The surviving members of Queen loved it so much they put a link to it on their Twitter. Angelina was eliminated after covering Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. Angelina’s family refused to sign any agreement with AGT. Angelina, before age 14, had covered more than 130 songs from 80 different artists, spanning at least 8 genres, all of which are available on UA-cam. Angelina has always made changes to each song she covers and often her version is preferred over the original. On UA-cam, search on The Complete Works of Angelina Jordan as Rusty Shackleford has put all songs in one file and has a complete playlist in the description of that video. The pandemic hit shortly after her performances on AGT and likely caused a change of plans by her family, most notably her Uncle Michael who is her manager. Her family agreed to a contract with Republic Records in August 2020. Republic Records declared Angelina Jordan their highest priority new artist. Reportedly her family requested Republic to allow her as normal a childhood as possible and therefore have yet to fully promote her. During the pandemic, Angelina was often seen buying meals for the homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. In November 2020, Angelina released “Million Miles” which she wrote after the passing of her beloved maternal grandfather. She dedicated the song to anyone who has ever lost a loved one. Angelina had previously released, 3 other original songs: “What is Life”, “Oslo” and “Shield” In April 2021, her original “7th Heaven” was released. A jazzy, danceable, inspiring song. Angelina has posted numerous short performances on Tik Tok and Instagram. Angelina had concerts in Norway in July 2022. In December 2022, Angelina performed at the Asian American Awards in Los Angeles. On 2/27/23, Angelina performed at the FIFA Awards ceremony in Paris, France, with a viewing audience in the millions. On May 5th, 2023, Angelina released her original "Love Don't Let Me Go". On July 23th she released her orginal EP “Old Enough”. Angelina perform Concert at the Music Hall in Portsmouth New Hampshire on Sept 22nd, 2023. It Was a great concert, who was not and could regret it, a big mistake.
WOW talk about someone singing their little heart out. This little girl absolutely slayed this song. Great reaction and I meet you down the rabbit hole 👍🙂💟
Another spell was cast by 9yo Angelina. Welcome to “The World Of Angelina Jordan Astar” (full name). “The Barefoot Princess With The Velvet Voice And A Mona Lisa Smile”. Born Jan 10, 2006 in Oslo Norway. From her audition on Norway’s Got Talent (2014 - age 7 - Gloomy Sunday "Billy Holiday") through the final on America’s Got Talent The Champions (2020 - age 13 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road "Sir Elton John") and the 130+ videos in between you will not be disappointed. This includes three originals song: “What Is Life”, “Oslo” and “Shield” Since then she has done many new covers and now her new singles "Million Miles" and “7th Heaven”, along with her movie soundtrack "Mercy" from the motion picture “The Hating Game”. As well as her brilliant version of Elvis’s “Suspicious Mind”. She released her latest album “Old Enough” and it is definitely some of her best stuff. My personal favorite is her cover of Lana Del Rey's "Born To Die". Although the soundtrack is really growing on me. Let’s analyze the video: 1st you see how small and cute she is. 2nd you see she is barefoot (story below) 3rd You see her making her “Wish List” of suggested changes to the song. 4th the band leader taking note of the changes. 5th Angelina is holding a candle with “Screemin’ Jay Hawkin’s (original artist 1956) picture on it. 6th the old soul in her voice. She is the youngest published author in Norway. Angelina wrote and her Grandmother illustrated a book about why she sings barefoot. She was on a trip to Iran where her grandmother is from and met a street girl weighing people for money. Angelina sat and talked with the girl. Angelina asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and the girl replied, a doctor but that it could never happen. Angelina told her to never give up hope. The girl complimented Angelina on her shoes and Angelina noticed her scarred bare feet so she gave them to her, and the little girl told Angelina she would pray for her every day. Angelina sings barefoot to this day to remind herself (and the world) that there are still children in need. All book proceeds go to charity.
She is Vocal Prodigy. Her Voice is so refereshing to hear. All the Covers and her Original Song "Million Miles" & her LP "Old Enough" too good and her new song "Our Time" Listen if you are treally Musically Inclined Angel D
The most surprising thing to find out about Angelina is non of her family are singers or musicians. She has perfect pitch we first see her singing with a mike at 18 months. Later in playgroup looking tortured by the other children's singing and refusing to join in the discordant cacophony. I watched her grow singing works by all the great vocalists. She was shy as a child but as a performer and singer she has always been fearless. We heard her tackling great songs from the earliest age. She was only 6 when we saw her in the recording studio for the first time singing I WHO HAVE NOTHING by Tom Jones.
Thank you for taking the time to listen & react to Angelina Jordan for the 1st time. Really enjoyed your great reaction to & appreciation of this incredible cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1950s classic by Angelina (which she also arranged) - at age 9. Angelina Jordan from Norway is now 17, has over 200 covers as well as some original songs readily available on UA-cam - & a huge, very loyal fan base. While you really can't go wrong with any of her performances - in order to better understand her musical roots & early influencers, I highly recommend going back to her Norways Got Talent audition singing the Billie Holiday classic Gloomy Sunday - at age 7. (And why did she go on NGT at age 7? Well - she actually wanted to go on when she was younger, but 7 was the minimum age. :) Be sure to select a video clip with English subtitles - because while Angelina sings in English, the narrator & judges are speaking Norwegian. Looking forward to more of your Angelina reactions. Thank you. And may GOD continue to watch over & bless Angelina Jordan.
In this one, strong is the Force! You have just entered the vortex of the black hole -- uh, I mean, rabbit hole -- of "The Angelina Jordan Effect"! I hope you'll continue the journey with us. I will subscribe! Angelina did this studio performance in March 2015 at age 9 years, 2 months! She was born in Oslo, Norway, on January 10, 2006 and began studying jazz and great jazz artists around age 3. She gave her favorite shoes away to a little homeless girl she met in the Middle East at age 6 (which led to her vow to never wear shoes while publicly performing until all children in the world had basic necessities -- a vow she still faithfully keeps to this day at age 17). She auditioned for Norway's Got Talent at age 7 with Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday," after which she during the competition the songs "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Holiday), "Bang, Bang" (Nancy Sinatra), and "Summertime" (George Gershwin), winning the season's competition at age EIGHT with 46% of the total votes! Also at age 8, she sang "Fly Me to the Moon" (Frank Sinatra) on "The View," and began to do charity events from that time forward, raising well over 20 million euros for children's and environmental causes. At age 9 (the same age as this performance), she wrote and published (!!) a book called "Between Two Hearts" about her experience with the little homeless girl, making her the youngest published author in Norway's history! Age 10 was what many of us consider to be her seminal year of showing phenomenal and exponential growth in her vocal talent, abilities, uniqueness of style, power, beauty, and ability to morph into any type of voice and genre, until she is where she lives today in the heavenlies above "mere mortal" talents. And at 17, she is just now getting warmed up! The more you uncover her music and her incredible portfolio of about 200 covers and originals, and the more you learn about her as the incredibly wonderful, loving, humble, empathetic human being she is, the more you will be captivated by this once-in-a-generational artist/genius! Thank you for your reaction and comments! Please continue!
"Welcome to the wonderful world of Angelina Jordan!" If you choose to join us from all over the world on her musical journey it will be an experience which will blow your mind. You asked a lot of questions and, believe me, you will get all the answers and a lot more! This particular performance stands alone because of it's incredible uniqueness but you will discover there is no particular genre you can associate her with, she sings it all. Is there a certain audience which enjoys her? Gender, age, color, language, religion, occupation, wealth, musical preference, it doesn't make any difference. She touches our heart with her love and once there it will never leave us. Crazy? No, she's the real deal. (Btw, you'll love how she sings 'Crazy' !) Get ready, your subscriber numbers are about to shoot up very quickly.
Her grandmother introduced her to the blues and jazz when she was very young. You can see her in this video if you look at the beginning. Her grandfather passed away a few years ago whom she was very close to and she wrote Million Miles in honor of him.
Welcome to the greatest talent on the planet. Been following her since 2015, and at 17 she has her own EP debut,mans it is amazing. 200+ covers and her original will keep you busy checking out all of her songs Best wishes to you.
Thanks, Angel - she was NINE here..(and supposedly did her own arrangements even at that age(!).. the candle she holds at the beginning has a pic of "Screamin' Jay Hawkins - the original artist) even though she's older now and doing her own stuff... and quite beautifully, this remains one of my favorites... appreciate your reaction!
Thanks for your reaction! She is only 17 years old today and from Norway. She signed with the label Republic Records just 14 years old, I think we can safely leave the promotion to Republic Record. Marketing will start when her full album is released later this year. There's only one EP with 6 songs she's released from RR now, and they haven't started marketing until the full album is released!. Republic Records know 100% what they are doing? I think a lot of people don't realize how much Angelina has done in her short life (17). She performed FIFA AWARD song, and performed in front of 40 000 people only 11 years old invited by Norah Jones. She was also specially invited by Quincy Jones to perform on his 85th birthday in the O2 arena / London. And so on goes the list... She has over 250 songs on UA-cam with cover songs and many originals. Angelina also plays piano and guitar. The truth is that within a year or two she will be the artist for the big occasions. and not a "bare belly plastic artist" who tops a list for a week and is forgotten just as quickly. She already eats most female vocalists for breakfast, and the label Republic Records and the rest of the music industry know that too! Angelina Jordan has nothing to prove. When she sometimes belts is it because the fits in the performances. She sings to us only she can do! Angelina recently had a sold-out concert in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where there was an audience from 9 different country all the way from Australia and from 39 different states in the USA.
Great first reaction. Angelina, originally from Norway but now living in LA, is barely 9 years old in this video but by this time is pretty much already a professional. She is basically self taught No formal vocal training or vocal coaches. As far as we know the only vocal instruction she was given was how to protect her voice. No musicians or singers in her family. By age 3 she was studying the jazz greats in UA-cam videos after being introduced to the music at an early age by her jazz fan grandmother. She is still relatively unknown as her family wanted her to have as normal a childhood as possible. She signed with Republic Records at age 14. Now 17 and graduated from high school she is ready to go full force with her career.
Awesome reaction Ms Angel D. Angelina is the Baby boomer left behind to be born later in life that will continue all the late greats unfinished work. She's been taking us back in time re-inventing songs with her charismatic sound and infusing it into todays era. You will be taken on a journey far more unimaginable, pulled in to an emotional ride that otherwise you would not imagine possible. Love to see you experience the journey down Angelia's world and thank you so much for sharing with us.
welcome to the world of Angelina Jordan, your life will never be the same.Angelina is a child prodigy and for the most part self trained. Beyond her significant singing capability is her brilliant musical interpretation ability, arrangement and composition skills. The arrangement for this song is Angelinas, the notes the man in the beginning was looking at were her last minute changes. She is a remarkable artist be even better a person devoting her career to spreading love and kindness and raising money for charities. Angelina has more than 170 covers and originals and she just released a new song which i think is the 1st song off her upcoming album
Angelina Jordan is a music prodigy she started singing at the age of 1.5 years and more than that she started with Billy Holiday Jazz. Angelina sings in 5 languages, designs her own clothes, and becomes the youngest author of a book in Norway that explains why she sings with no shoes, like her name, she truly is an angel with a heart of gold. Angelina won Norway's Got Talent when she was 7 years old (these are her words but she started at 7 years old and won at 8 years old) Her younger years before age 13 she was watched over by her mother and her Uncle who is also Angelina's manager who just wanted her to grow up normal. Her mother and uncle Turned down almost 90% of all requests for her to perform but even so from age 7years to 12 years old or so, she has been all over the world (Mother never more than a breath away) most of this was in support of children needs funding. Angelina has produced over 180 covers, and she makes all of them her own, all of which will astound you. New people to Angelina get sucked down this rabbit hole of not believing what they're hearing her excellent vocals and unique way of singing, Angelina is a master at music structure her ability to show absolute recognition to a cover while she makes it her own. Angelina writes her own music and produces it. Angelina's mother is Norwegian, and her father is from Sweeden The grandmother on her mother's side is from Iran (a prodigy in her own right) and her grandfather (recently deceased) is from Japan both grandparents are very involved with Angelina growing up, Angelina's original song a million miles is about losing her grandfather. Angelina is now 17 and lives in LA and just starting her commercial career with a tour of Norway and a new album for the fall of 23. I'm sure she will dominate the world market.
First off most will send you right to her 2020AGT where she made Queen cover literally her own, Queen liked her version of their song so much they gave her the rights to her version of their song .. she was 13 when she did this. Another in the list is The Blue couch version of AJ covering Etta James at 12 years old with her brand new birthday present microphone microphone microphone
Angelina has been singing since age 1 1/2 - at 2 years old she started to teach herself how to sing by scrolling through UA-cam and listening to the jazz greats (Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and more). She has never had a long-term vocal coach - but has had training in music theory and songwriting as well as tips on how to keep her voice healthy. She also plays the piano and guitar.
She got her training from UA-cam videos, her other training was mostly in music theory, she is a natural because it runs in the family, her grandmother was a child prodigy in poetry and visual arts like painting. She not only performed this song, she arranged it and worked with the musicians for them to accompany her, everything here is Angelina, no one else produced this performance. That’s why she is a prodigy!
Great song to start with as you are about to open up the rabbit hole. It is deep and worth the time you spend discovering all she has to offer. She gets better with age.
Angel, what a perfect name for someone just embarking on your Angelina journey, I’ve listened to great singers all my life and have never encountered one with the versatility that Angelina possesses….I’m 74 and worked many concerts in my younger days, no one compares to Angelina IMO. I have subscribed to follow what will certainly be an amazing journey. Peace
Picture on the candle is Screaming Jay Hawkins. She did the cover from his original from 1958(you should see it). She made all arrangement of the song (writing last notes before take giving it to band-leader). She won NGT 2014 at age 7/8 and i voted for her win there (46% of all votes given in the final). With your name you will fit in nicely with us Angels. Saw her live in Kongsberg 2022. My best concert experience ever. Love from Norwegian subscriber. For every song you will do from her, she will always surprise you in a good way. Welcome to Angelina Jordan Astar( last name fits well).
Angelina is self taught. She made this arrangement. No her family are not singers. She was barely 9 when she recorded this and she is 17 now. Her birthday is January 10. The how will never really be explained. All we can do is enjoy❤
New sub here Angel. Great reaction. She's 9 here. Minimal vocal training. Suggest going back a bit to her 4 Norway's Got Talent performances at 7 and 8. She won the show with 2 Billie Holiday covers, Bang Bang and Gershwin's Summertime sung in the Louis Armstrong style. Enjoy. There is NO other musical journey that compares to this miracle childs.
100% natural. The only training was to help protect her from straining and damaging her voice. Other than that, her main musical schooling was learning instruments. Her teachers were very aware of her gift and made sure she was free to develop according to her own interests. She did draw a lot of inspiration from the jazz greats as well as exploring her voice as a musical instrument. She’s a musical gift to the world. We are very lucky to have her.
This performance isn't typical of Angelina , she was advised not to perform in that manner again for fear of damaging her voice , she took that advice but she has performed this song many times since , without the growl and scream whistle for lack a better description .
What’s great about your reaction is that you still have no idea how good Angelina is. This song is a one-off performance by Angelina-she never sang it like this again. She covers five or six genres beautifully, authentically. She’s 9 here, 17 now and her voice can be completely mesmerizing. Angelina is easily the best singer I’ve ever heard, and I’ve been listening since the 1950’s.
For her recent concert in New Hampshire a fan organized an online fundraiser and Angelina was greeted backstage by 500 roses. That is how much we love her. As a role model for young girls she demonstrates the power of family, dedication, focus, self-belief and caring for others. The story of her decision to perform barefoot is simply amazing.
What makes this more shocking is that, at the time of this recording, she had no professional voice training - she’s simply a prodigy. Not only that, she’s not from a family of musicians. In fact, she’s from Oslo, Norway (where this was recorded) - so she’s singing in a second language! Just God-given talent. Enjoy your trip down the Angelina Jordan rabbit hole.
Just subscribed. You're in for a hell of a ride! I'm 79 and love this girl's voice, it just keeps getting better as years pass, I'll enjoy watching each new discovery.
🎉🎉🎉 The Barefoot Princess - (From her book, television and radio interviews, and podcasts made between 2014-2015. Includes excerpts from her diary made that day in 2012.) Why does Angelina sing barefooted? Angelina Jordan is known as "The Barefoot Princess" or "The Barefoot Princess of Jazz," amongst many other names. She always performs barefooted, whether in front of a live audience or during a studio performance. The story is that while living in the Middle East, at 6 years old, Angelina came across an orphaned girl, of her own age, sitting in the street, weighing people on a bathroom scale to earn money. Angelina said to herself, "I would like to share her life for one second to know what it is like to sit alone, wet, and damp, and barefoot in a corner of the street." Angelina could see the girl's bare feet were scarred and that it was cold outside, so she offered her own shoes to the girl. Little Angelina says that she really loved her shoes, as they were very nice and she knew she would miss them. But she saw the other little girl’s need for them, which outweighed her own desire to keep them. So she insisted the little girl take them. Angelina called her Princess, even though the girl said she didn't live in a castle, but the ruins of a building next to where she sat. After sharing their hopes and dreams, the little girl said of Angelina's wish to sing for the world, "You will become the one you dream of and when your dreams come true, you have to remember the poor children without shoes; and I will pray for you Angelina.” Later that day, 6 y/o Angelina wrote in her diary, "The world is very strange. Right then and there, I felt as if a door in my heart opened up, and it was filled with lots of lights. It was as if there was, from Earth to Heaven, a staircase. I climbed the stairs. To be able to do something for another human - it was such a big thing…hard to describe really.” From that point on, Angelina takes off her shoes, in honor of ‘Princess’ and all the other less fortunate children of the world, who are orphaned, hungry, or in want of even basic clothing. In 2015, at the age of 9, Angelina wrote a book about the encounter, as everyone continued to ask why she sang barefoot. Her grandmother, Mery Zamani, created the artwork for the book. So at 9, Angelina Jordan became the youngest published author in Norway. Angelina has performed alongside many other artists, raising attention and helping to raise over 21 million euros and millions of dollars for children in need.
Welcome to the world of Angelina Jordan Astar. You will get inundated with her Angels from all over the world. Currently 17 with her recent debut, Republic Records EP drop a month ago of her 6 originals, this cover is only a drop to her massive count of close to 200 covers and her other 5 originals. Winning Norways Got Talent at 8 years of age, her audition was at 7, to her appearance on America's Got Talent, The Champions at age 13...you will have a field day as you deep dive into her rabbit hole. Looking forward to your reactions.
Great first reaction to Angelina! You will no doubt ask yourself many times "how?" There is no answer that us mere mortals can comprehend, only that she was born to sing. We can only be thankful for the gift that is Angelina!
Now a 17 , soon to be 18 year, January 10th, 2024, old beauty from Norway, first video of her singing is a Whitney Houston song at age 1 1/2, Grandma Played Jazz at home all the time, Billie Holiday etc., were always playing, Huge influence, gave shoes to a homeless girl in the middle east, begged mom to let her enter contest and finally did at age 7 when she entered and won Norway's got Talent after turning 8, became youngest published author at age 9, when she wrote a book about why she gave her shoes away and that special bond she still has, Appeared on AGT at 13 with an amazing Bohemian Rhapsody rendition she arrange her self and now releasing an amazing EP this year and brand new single dropped in the last few days. you will be getting lots more info from the Angels as she calls her fans. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
If you want to start at the beginning watch her at age 6 her first time in a recording studio singing “I who have nothing”. And all of her performances on Norway got talent at age 7.
Not bad for a 9 year old. Take a fifties classic song by Screaming Jay Hawkins, arrange the music and then sing like a 40 year old jazz singer. This girl is a gift to us all. Welcome to Angelina's world.
You have now started... Down the "Rabbit Hole" you go - ENJOY the Ride!!! You will soon find (as you continue to react more & more to her) who ANGELina is! Her beautiful soulful sound Touches the soul of many a listener. That is = Angelina Jordan. And a sidetone: Take a note of your current sub numbers then - if you continue to record your reactions to her other songs and renditions - Your Sub Numbers will skyrocket!
Simple answer.... SHE IS OTHERWORLDLY!
This performance is what the word MASTERPIECE was created for.
And just like that, the most profound musical prodigy on the planet has just entered your life. Enjoy the journey❤
Maybe you fast forward to “Bohemian Rhapsody” AGT iconic song, and then the most recent her own “Now I’m the fool”, so you get a view of her capabilities. Then you step back to Norwegian Got Talent (and the studio record at 6 yr.) watching from where it all started. Then you have 200 more amazing songs to admire. Angeline never compromise and every word that comes over her lips she places vocally with a purpose. Well, see for yourself and you’ll agree to most what now is feed backed to your reaction.
Thanks for a great reaction, my first time on your channel and subscribed. Also, a fellow Canadian form southern Ontario. I have just read every comment below and can say with conviction that every commentator here has likely drastically held back their feelings about Angelina so as not to overwhelm you with their love and positivity of her. You have heard about the 500 roses given to Angelina at Portsmouth; I can tell you that I am the originator of that rose drive. After deciding I wanted to do this, I contacted a florist in Portsmouth and the theater, then gave the marketing job to James Theil who did an amazing job putting it all together. Angelina responded with "What are you guy's doing to me, what a surprise, I Love youuuu". If you want to hear more, let me know. 😀
Welcome to the birth of a legend. Here’s a little background info on Angelina.
“When I sing I go to another world. The world is endless. It's like, full of happiness. I love it. It's amazing. And when I am on stage, I don't want to go [leave the stage]. [laughing]. I just want to be on stage" A snippet of Skaylan’s interview of Angelina Jordan (age 12) on Norwegian TV - November 2018. ♥👣👸🏻🎷
What you will soon realize is that Angelina today at 17 Angelina is already the best Jazz singer on the Planet! IMO Soon to be one of the Best Vocalists of All Time. ♥👣👸🏻
Angelina won Norway's Got Talent when she was 8 yrs old after starting the competition at 7 yrs old. The youngest winner of any Got Talent show on the planet. She had to wait two years because you had to be 7 yrs old to enter. She started with a rendition of Billie Holiday's 'Gloomy Sunday' which she just infused with Billie's soul. She followed this by another Billie classic with a pitch perfect rendition of 'I'm a Fool to Want You' acapella. Her next performance was a beautiful rendition of 'Bang, Bang' by Sonny & Cher and performed most famously by Nancy Sinatra. She won the competition with what I consider her first Masterpiece performance of 'Summertime' by George Gershwin. Shortly after winning she was designated a National Treasure by the Norwegian people. ♥👣👸🏻
There is video of Angelina recorded by her mother Sarah Astar singing a couple of lines of "I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston when she was 18 months old. She started studying all the greats of Jazz soon after under the guidance of her Iranian Grandmother Mery Zamani a child prodigy in her own right as an artist and poet. English is Angelina's 3rd language behind Norwegian and Farsi along with Japanese and some German and perhaps more. She did this from 2 & 3 yrs old by scrolling thru UA-cam of all their most Iconic performance. Angelina doesn't just mimic these greats, she reinterprets them and then simply sings them the way they were meant to be sung. She makes them her own.
Angelina was begging her mother to go on "that Simon show" when she was 3 yrs old. encouraged to sing children songs, she would have none of that. Angelina chooses her own songs and she is absolutely fearless. No song is too big and no artist is too Iconic. All the most Iconic songs by the most Iconic singers in music history. Angelina has said singing to her is as important to her as breathing. ♥👣👸🏻
She will sing anything Acapella at any time and often does. Her Tic-Toc is full of these impromptu performances wherever she might be whether in the car, walking around the neighborhood or in a parking Garage. Accompanied by most often a simple guitar or piano her performances are always incredible. Add a band or even a full orchestra as in her performance for Quincy Jones at his request singing his arrangement of 'Fly Me to the Moon'. The same arrangement he did for Frank Sinatra. This opened for his 85th birthday celebration at the 02 Arena in London. ♥👣👸🏻
She is well known worldwide in the industry. Her family and Angelina have been holding back turning down many of the biggest in the industry while she finishes school. Remember she just turned 17 January 10th. They finally signed with Republic Records about three years ago after getting a deal that gave her control of her artistic vision and has since released 2 originals, 'Million Miles' & '7th Heaven' plus the opening soundtrack for the New Movie "The Hating Game" with her song 'Mercy' performed most notably by Duffy. Republic has labeled her their Highest Priority and assigned a team to her including Rob Christy a multiple Grammy Winner, often on the piano in many of her performances and a whole team of equally qualified professionals. She has worked with some of the best musicians in the industry and always get exactly what she wants. Some call her the Boss and have immense respect for her. She is due to release her 1st album promised by Angelina to be soon.
She has been diligently perfecting her craft since winning Norway's Got Talent singing all over the world, Germany, Japan, Korea as well as TV appearances such as The View, Little Big Shots and most notably America's Got Talent where she premiered her Iconic Performance of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which Queen gave her the copyright for. Her version is available on iTunes and Spotify & is included on her Album 'Magic' which she released on her own along with a Christmas Song collection. After Heidi's golden buzzer for her audition of BR, Angelina went directly to the finals where she sang YBR. After the "secret voting", she placed 6th in the competition and was eliminated from the competition. After first refusing to sign with AGT because of contract demands, a re-worked contract was eventually signed which freed Angelina from any commitments or record deal if she performed.
She has also sung for Many Heads of State including Barack Obama and a couple of songs opening for Norah Jones in Korea. She also sang at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert at 8 yrs old for Malala and another recipient. Mostly she has sung for charities helping raise millions for children charities and climate change. The great part is that most of it has been well documented often by herself and her family. Her Grandmother who introduced her to Jazz at 3 & 4 yrs old is behind the camera more than anyone else. Love the reactions. Get ready for a deep dive. She is worth it! Love from the Land of Vikings ♥👣👸🏻
Why Angelina always performs barefoot♥👣
For those who do not know.
At age 6, while traveling in the Middle East with her mother and grandmother, Angelina noticed a girl around her age standing on the side of the road asking people to step on her bathroom scale to be weighed in hopes of getting some money. Angelina took off her shoes so as to not get the scale dirty and stepped on the scale many times to make the girl feel better. Angelina befriends the girl who was not wearing shoes and has scars on her feet, and learns she is an orphan. The orphan girl tells Angelina how beautiful she thinks her shoes are. Angelina says her shoes don’t fit her well and she wants to give her shoes to the orphan girl who thanks Angelina for giving her the shoes. Angelina asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and the girl replied, “I want to become a doctor, but that will never happen since I have no parents and I have siblings so I have to do whatever is necessary for us to survive.” Angelina told the girl to never give up on her dreams. The poor girl asked Angelina what she wanted to be when she grew up and Angelina replied that she wanted to sing for the whole world. The poor girl said she would pray every day so Angelina’s dream would come true. Angelina says she still thinks of that homeless girl every day and has always performed barefoot to remind her of all the children who are less fortunate. At age 9, she became the youngest published author in Norway’s history by writing a book about this encounter in the Middle East. 'Between Two Hearts'
Angelina Jordan interviewed by Anne Lindmo, NRK TV "Lindmo" 14/11/2015 (eng & esp sub) ua-cam.com/video/-cCLDY0CSZ8/v-deo.html ♥👣👸🏻🎷
Hi Angel D 👋 Welcome of the world from our Angel 😇Angelina ?? Angelina is in n this song 9 years young and the Band call She The "Boss" This is a song from original screaming Jay Hawkins 1956! Angelina sings crazy 🤪 good! She is a natural talent! and prodigy girl and magical! now beautiful young Lady Queen ofJazz 👸🎺🎸!!! Angelina call 😯 us all her Angels 😇 not (Fans) that is special and unique!!! I am a new subscriber to your channel and a true loyal Big, Big Angelina Angel 😇(Fan) !! Angelina enchanted me in this song 💫 I was speechless 😶 at the end of the song!! If you close your eyes you think a 40 year old black, experienced jazz singer is singing the song incredibly mature!!! I am now 67 years old and have been a music expert in all styles of music for over 40 years 🎸 🎹 but I have never heard 😲 or seen 👁 anything like Angelina in my musical career! We have to support you! support financially! and protect! She is unique! and specially! and magical! Angelina gibt mir always chills 🤯 lächeln 😊 und tränen 🥲 in meine Augen bei Ihren Liedern so! beautiful! so heartwarming♥️and soul ✨️touching! Angelina ist Life noch besser unglaublich magisch! Sie singt mit Herz♥️blut🩸I Love♥️♥️♥️ it She is magical💫 Angelina sings 😲 cover from Billy Holiday, Etta James, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Adele, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Elvis, Freddy Mercury, Denis Joplin, Nina Simone, Jay Hawkins, Rhianna, Aretha Franklin, from all these great singers!!! Angelinas soulful,💫 mature, emotional, smooth, warmth, breath, powerfull, extremely raspy, sassy, old soul ✨️Voice 😲 is out of this world 🌍 She will be become a Legend 100% sure !! I love ♥️♥️♥️ it! Nobody is like Angelina! She is untacheboul! magical! so unique!!! Great, great, reaction and comments "Angel 😇 D" 👍👌👏 love ♥️ and peace ✌️☮️ and kindness 😀 have a great Week, time, work, and music time 👌👌greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭 🇨🇭🇨🇭 😇👣👰👸🎙 🎺🎷 🎸 🎼❤️🔥💥🔥💎👋💁♂️ Ps: "Angelina" and "Dimash" two true ones! real! loving ♥️! emotional❤️🔥! passionate💥 angel! 😇 😇 who always tell a story when they sing like angels 😇 😇! with heart ♥️ and soul ✨️🌟 The 2 best singers in the world 🌍 !!
Angelina is a generational talent 😲💥 Something never seen before! She is the truth 💫 and a gift to all of us Angels 😇 and every person 🌍! Always supports you! so that your dream of creating a loving ♥️ world 🌍 comes true, with your love ♥️ and voice 😲! tell all your friends!
Please🙏support Angelina our Angel😇! in your You Tube Original and Covers channel thank you 👏👌 very much!! Give a👍thumbs up and write a comment📝 in AJ's Channels thanks🙏 👏 She deserves it a thousand times over! This helps Angelina a lot to become even better known 😀!!
Following her Norway's Got Talent audition, one of the staff members backstage said she was a "jazz goddess", best explanation I've heard yet for her.
Amazing, Unbelievable , remarkable and so darn young !!
She has the power and Energy from the beginning of her life 🧬now Old Enough to break out with her new Ep of this name 💕💯
Also her new Single.. Our Time is out now on the way to a New Album ✌️
Great first reaction. You have the right name for an AJ fan! Look forward to more astonished reactions.
You can't teach this is god-given talent she was put on this planet to siny
Give this newer one at 17 yrs. old, one of her own... Angelina Jordan - "Now I'm The Fool" you'll be amazed...
Thanks for the reaction to our angel Angelina..she’s simply the best..❤
Watch her singing how great thou art. She the girl with a thousand voices
Get used to it! She'll blow you away from younger than this to now ,17;)
A VERY Young artist BORN with an OLD SOUL. Amazing.
If you don't have the habit of wearing earphones when listening to Angelina, I highly recommend a pair; without- - you miss so much!
She was wearing in ear headphones..
Angelina Jordan 17 years, the best among the best, an outstanding vocalist, totally unique and original style, she is also an extraordinary composer, she demonstrated it with her 7 new songs from her new LP, Mexico
If you're gonna go down this rabbit hole wear your seatbelt... Good luck..✌️
#ANGELS
This is a Man's World. A James Brown cover that she did at age 10.
Hello! This is my 1st time seeing you and your channel, and I really loved your reaction. I have a very strong feeling that we will be seeing you again, reacting to this VERY special singer. Today she is 17 years old, (she will turn 18 on January 10th) and I have already for a couple of years considered her to be the best female singer in world. That's a very subjective opinion, but one that I know that I share with a LOT of other people as well. I have been following her ever since she auditioned on a Norwegian talent show when she was 7 years old, a competition that she won. By that time she had just turned 8. Now, if you react more to her, I'm extremely curious to see what you think. I trust that my fellow fans have already put you in the right direction for your next reaction. Needless to say, I have subscribed to your channel for more reactions to her! Have a great Sunday and take care. Greetings from Norway 👍
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Welcome to AJs world ,, make a play list for her and we will keep you in formed of what your missing, enjoy the ride
Seriously, mark your calendar and next year do a year in review. With over 200 videos you can watch the life of a prodigy and see the impact she has. Her voice makes the day better❤ it never diminishes.
Where to begin?? I would say NGT, that is Norways Got Talent, which she won at 8. Appropriate your name. Her fans are known as Angels.
A barefoot princess with a hypnotic voice.
She was only 9 years old when she performed this song. It is her tribute to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, an American singer/songwriter. He wrote and performed it in 1956 and Angelina based her performance on the original, although she did make some subtle alterations to both lyrics and melody. As you continue your journey of discovering Angelina, you will come to realise that she does her own arrangements of most of the cover songs she sings. The differences may not be immediately discernible on first listening to them, but they are there. There may be a subtle change in tempo or tone, or more inflexion on some words, or a phrase may differ in pitch from the original. The amount of control that Angelina has over her voice cannot be measured. She never hurries a song. She sings in such a way that the emotions in the lyrics are felt by the listener. In this video did you notice:Angelina finishing some notes and handing them to the pianist, who smiled as he read them? They were her wishes (instructions) to the band how she wished therm to play the music. In the band, she was called a boss.
Hi Angel, the name fits because she calls her fans Angels, nice that you took a little look into Angelina's rabbit hole. She was 9 years old when she heard this song and she arranged it herself based on the original by Screaming Jay Hawkins from 1956. She won Norway's Got Talent at the age of 8 with songs by Billie Holiday, Nancy Sinatra, and the song Summertime by Gershwin. You are at the very beginning and I hope that you embark on the further journey because there is a lot to discover, she is the best singer in the world in my opinion) but you will find out for yourself and believe me, you are just as addicted to her voice as all other fans (Angels), she is also called the barefoot angel with the 1000 voices, why she always performs barefoot is another story, she can adapt and improve her voice to any song and also convey a lot of emotions and not only does she have around 200 covers but also 12 originals written by her as well as 2 written for her, all of which are amazing and even now legendary and there's a lot to talk about, her new EP all originals I can't decide which is the best song is. The whole EP is such a masterpiece and so well written by her, all I can say is she is outstanding and by far the best singer of this decade or century and Diamond is an even bigger surprise I have never experienced one in my entire life EP only contains number 1 songs, each of the 6 songs is a hit and grammy worthy. I hope that Republic Records will finally start the promo engine and it will be played on the radio and TV, only UA-cam is not enough. The crazy thing is that she said that the EP with 6 songs is a small selection of over 100 songs that she has already written, that gives hope for the future, that we will be surprised with even more beautiful songs. I look forward to further reactions and have now subscribed to you, by the way, she is now 17 years old, greetings from Germany,
Great reaction to a vocal tour-de-force! You've done it now. You have fallen into the vortex of Angelina Jordan who arguably brings the most confident, versatile, seemingly effortless, and fearless vocal artistry found today (whether measured across artists, genres, or decades). You may think this an exaggeration but listen to a few more of her many performances (170+ covers plus original songs - all on YT) and you will see! She has been performing at a high level all over the world since age 8 when she won Norway's Got Talent singing Billie Holiday, Nancy Sinatra, and Gershwin. It is the rare singer that can, as Angelina has done, go from Queen to "Screamin" Jay Hawkins to Adele to Elvis to Whitney Houston to Michael Jackson to Etta James to James Brown to Amy Winehouse to the Beatles (and many others in between) and do them all justice!
If you want to hear music, listen to anyone. If you want to feel music, listen to Angelina. She will stagger you with her ability to find and bring forth the 'essence', the emotional message of nearly any song. You have far to go with Angelina. She is equally comfortable and equally able to impact us whether singing a cappella, accompanied only by a piano or guitar, in front of professional studio musicians or a 40-piece military band. With her immense vocal toolkit, arranging ability (yeah, that too, since about 8yo or so) and the work ethic to make what she does only 'seem' effortless, she will hopefully be touching hearts for a long time to come.
Why God has performed the miracle of touching the world with one of such talent, musical IQ, commitment, and generosity as Angelina we can wonder but we must all marvel. Welcome aboard the AJ train! Please react to more of her impressive library.
It is truly a conundrum when we try to rationalize how it is possible that this tiny sweet-faced 9yo Norwegian girl can step up to a microphone, flip some switch within her, become this "beast-mode" version of herself (most probably named "AJ don't play"), deliver an extraordinary and musically and socially sophisticated performance, then just-like-that return to the pensive young lady once again... There aren't words for this!
"I Put a Spell On You" has been covered many times and is recognized as a classic, yet almost never is the tone of the original 1956 "Screamin" Jay Hawkins version captured. This is because Hawkins was the original shock rock guy (think Ozzy Osbourne-type craziness) and his style is difficult to emulate and also because his dated delivery is uncomfortable and stereotypical to our modern sensibilities. Yet Angelina respectfully sings his own song in a manner that exceeds his (Hawkin's image is on the candle she holds at the start of her video).
You must go and listen to Hawkins' original (and throw in a couple of "famous" covers as well) to see the true genius in how AJ incorporates many of his vocal elements [usually omitted by most singers]. This shows another aspect of her musical IQ and arranging genius (not to mention her masterful control of her vocal instrument equaled by few others regardless of age). "Screamin" Jay Hawkins original "I Put A Spell on You" ua-cam.com/video/orNpH6iyokI/v-deo.html
Welcome to the ear candy world of Angelina Jordan, our then Barefoot Princess. You got Angelified
Absolutely phenomenal performance from our barefoot princess, Angelina actually arranges this herself at 9 years old, she is paying tribute to the original artist Screaming J Hawkins a blues musician from the 1950s , Angelina is commanding the performance she is the boss , welcome to Angelina Jordan Astar , Angelina won Norway’s Got Talent at 8 years old,Angelina’s Grandmother Mery Zamani who is a talented Iranian artist and poet, is Angelina’s greatest inspiration and influence Mery introduced Angelina to the old classic songs and Jazz when Angelina was 1 1/2 years old, Angelina has around 200 upgrades of covers, and original songs to , Angelina signed with Republic Records at 14 years old and her Uncle Mike is her manager, I’ve been following Angelina for many years now and have attended live concerts in her home country Norway 🇳🇴 one concert when Angelina was 12 years old and another live concert in 2022 , also I attended Angelina’s latest live concert this year in Portsmouth USA 🇺🇸, Angelina is a present 17 years old, And is a stunning singer songwriter, my advice is to follow Angelina’s journey from 6 years old to present day , great reaction thanks 🙏
I've been a music fan since the 60's, but I had never seen/heard anything like Angelina when I stumbled on her nearly 6 years ago when she was 12 yo & had just moved from Norway to LA where she currently resides. I see the other "Angels" have filled you in with her backstory, so I will just like & subscribe for your discovery journey of Angelina & I predict in 5 years she will be a "household name" around the World. Congratulations, you just won the Music Lottery!
You have missed iut on a whole career of Angelina Jordan. She is a genius and prodigy.
Welcome to Angelina's world, enjoy your journey it will be full of pleasant surprises
Won’t ever forget that, will you?
Please continue the Angelina Jordan journey I promise you will truly enjoy it and be surprised there’s a lot out there for you to listen to!! We have truly been blessed with this young lady. She’s truly God’s creation ,I’m 68 listen to tons music over my lifetime and when I pass, I know I will with a smile on my face because I have been lucky enough to witness Angelina Jordan!!
Angelina is a gift to all of us, of love, beauty, compassion, and her once-in-a-generation vocals. All this talent, and a heart to match. For me, she is the epitome of what we can be, should be, even if we couldn't sing a lick. I like her a lot. I wish we had more of her.
I am here for Angelina. ❤❤❤
That top notch professional studio production is one of the best early indications of the enormity of how fortunate Angelina was to have everything imaginable available to go with her extraordinary talent. Thankfully her family had the means and wisdom to provide all of best for Angelina.
It’s obvious that Angelina was genetically endowed with highly advanced and evolved musical intuition, instincts, intelligence, feel and and ear for perfect pitch. She is a force of nature that we not only listen to her other worldly talent, but she is a life altering experience.
Born Angelina Jordan Astar on January 10, 2006 in Oslo, Norway to her Norwegian mother, Sara Astar and her Swedish father, Gerry Christian Slattman.
Angelina started singing around 18 months of age, after listening to Whitney Houston on UA-cam. She quickly became obsessed with listening to music videos and her maternal grandmother, Mery Zamani got Angelina interested in classic jazz.
Mery Zamani is Iranian and was a prodigy as an artist and poet while growing up in Iran. Angelina attended the Oslo Waldorf School and participated in the Oslo School of Music and Performing Arts after-school program, where starting around age 4, she had training in music but no vocal training. Her teachers were smart enough to not attempt to change what she was doing vocally. More recently she along with her grandmother have designed and made the clothing she wears on stage.
Why Angelina always performs barefoot At age 6, while traveling in the Middle East with her mother and grandmother, Angelina noticed a girl around her age standing on the side of the road, asking people to step on her bathroom scale to be weighed in hopes of getting some money. Angelina took off her shoes so as to not get the scale dirty and stepped on the scale many times to make the girl feel better. Angelina befriends the girl who was not wearing shoes and has scars on her feet, and learns she is an orphan. The orphan girl tells Angelina how beautiful she thinks her shoes are. Angelina says her shoes don’t fit her well and she wants to give her shoes to the orphan girl who thanks Angelina for giving her the shoes. Angelina asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and the girl replied, “I want to become a doctor, but that will never happen since I have no parents and I have siblings so I have to do whatever is necessary for us to survive.” Angelina told the girl to never give up on her dreams. The poor girl asked Angelina what she wanted to be when she grew up and Angelina replied that she wanted to sing for the whole world. The poor girl said she would pray every day so Angelina’s dream would come true. Angelina still says she thinks of that homeless girl every day and has always performed barefoot to remind her of all the children who are less fortunate.
At age 9, she became the youngest published author in Norway’s history by writing a book about this encounter in the Middle East. PLEASE PURCHASE Angelina’s book from her merchandise store on her official website, angelinajordanofficial Angelina, at age 6 and 7, did record a few songs in a recording studio at her school, most notably “I Who Have Nothing”, a truly remarkable performance for a 7 year old. At age 7, Angelina’s audition on Norway’s Got Talent, was a cover of Billie Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday”, a song which was banned by a number of European countries during World War II because authorities worried the song would increase the suicide rate. Truly bizarre that this is the song to launch the career of a child musical prodigy. One of the judges on NGT cried. Angelina had turned 8 years old for her next performance on NGT, covering Billie Holiday’s “I’m a Fool to Want You” singing acapella which was required by NGT unless the singer also played an instrument while singing. This was the Judge’s cut round of the competition and was not performed in front of an audience. In the Semi Final round of NGT, Angelina sang “Bang Bang” which was written by Sonny Bono and was first performed by his wife Cher but is best known sung by Nancy Sinatra. The improvement in each performance is incredible even though there were only a couple months between them. In the Finals, Angelina did a cover of George Gershwin’s, “Summertime” and won the contest, capturing 46% of the votes from the ten finalists. When asked what she would like to do with the prize money she won (500,000 kroner or about $80,000), Angelina replied, “I want to give it to the poor children”. Angelina had become a star in her native Norway and her videos on UA-cam went viral. She gave a few concerts during the summer of 2014 while 8 years old. In December 2014, Angelina realized a life-long desire to sing at the Save the Children's Peace Prize Celebration which is part of the Noble Peace Prize celebration. Angelina’s family took her to United States, Brazil, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Singapore among other corners of Earth, to perform for heads of state and to help raise money for charity. All before Angelina turned 14. At age 9, Angelina recorded a music video covering the 1956 Jay Hawkin’s classic, “I Put a Spell On You”. The video begins by showing Angelina writing her “wishes” for how she wants to perform the song. Angelina has always created her own arrangements for her cover songs. At age 10 and just a week before her 11th birthday, Angelina recorded a demo of “I’m Still Holding Out for You”. Her family never pursued having that recording officially released but someone leaked it on a UA-cam video. Thankfully, everyone involved with that song is now ok with the leaked version. Many angels (fans) believe this is one of Angelina’s best performances. When Angelina was 11, she performed a number of concerts in Norway with a jazz/rock band. Those concerts included up to 14 songs, each remarkably performed. Angelina seems to be at her best when on stage, never nervous, only 100% confident. Also at age 11, Angelina recorded her “It’s Magic” album which has, at times, been in the top 10 best selling jazz albums. On June 27, 2018, at age 12, Jordan performed Frank Sinatra “Fly Me to the Moon” for Quincy Jones in The O2 Arena in London. She has said that was the high point of her young career which was already in it’s 6th year. During 2018, Angelina lost her paternal grandfather, her friend Avicii and one of her idols, Aretha Franklin. She did a moving tribute for each. In 2019, Angelina accepted an invitation to compete in the 2nd season of America’s Got Talent (AGT), The Champions. She had, since age 3, wanted to perform for Simon Cowell and she earned his praise with her genius arrangement of “Bohemian Rhapsody”. The surviving members of Queen loved it so much they put a link to it on their Twitter. Angelina was eliminated after covering Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. Angelina’s family refused to sign any agreement with AGT. Angelina, before age 14, had covered more than 130 songs from 80 different artists, spanning at least 8 genres, all of which are available on UA-cam. Angelina has always made changes to each song she covers and often her version is preferred over the original. On UA-cam, search on The Complete Works of Angelina Jordan as Rusty Shackleford has put all songs in one file and has a complete playlist in the description of that video. The pandemic hit shortly after her performances on AGT and likely caused a change of plans by her family, most notably her Uncle Michael who is her manager. Her family agreed to a contract with Republic Records in August 2020. Republic Records declared Angelina Jordan their highest priority new artist. Reportedly her family requested Republic to allow her as normal a childhood as possible and therefore have yet to fully promote her. During the pandemic, Angelina was often seen buying meals for the homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. In November 2020, Angelina released “Million Miles” which she wrote after the passing of her beloved maternal grandfather. She dedicated the song to anyone who has ever lost a loved one. Angelina had previously released, 3 other original songs: “What is Life”, “Oslo” and “Shield” In April 2021, her original “7th Heaven” was released. A jazzy, danceable, inspiring song. Angelina has posted numerous short performances on Tik Tok and Instagram. Angelina had concerts in Norway in July 2022. In December 2022, Angelina performed at the Asian American Awards in Los Angeles. On 2/27/23, Angelina performed at the FIFA Awards ceremony in Paris, France, with a viewing audience in the millions. On May 5th, 2023, Angelina released her original "Love Don't Let Me Go". On July 23th she released her orginal EP “Old Enough”.
Angelina perform Concert at the Music Hall in Portsmouth New Hampshire on Sept 22nd, 2023. It Was a great concert, who was not and could regret it, a big mistake.
WOW talk about someone singing their little heart out. This little girl absolutely slayed this song. Great reaction and I meet you down the rabbit hole 👍🙂💟
Masterpiece
Another spell was cast by 9yo Angelina. Welcome to “The World Of Angelina Jordan Astar” (full name). “The Barefoot Princess With The Velvet Voice And A Mona Lisa Smile”. Born Jan 10, 2006 in Oslo Norway. From her audition on Norway’s Got Talent (2014 - age 7 - Gloomy Sunday "Billy Holiday") through the final on America’s Got Talent The Champions (2020 - age 13 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road "Sir Elton John") and the 130+ videos in between you will not be disappointed. This includes three originals song: “What Is Life”, “Oslo” and “Shield” Since then she has done many new covers and now her new singles "Million Miles" and “7th Heaven”, along with her movie soundtrack "Mercy" from the motion picture “The Hating Game”. As well as her brilliant version of Elvis’s “Suspicious Mind”. She released her latest album “Old Enough” and it is definitely some of her best stuff. My personal favorite is her cover of Lana Del Rey's "Born To Die". Although the soundtrack is really growing on me.
Let’s analyze the video:
1st you see how small and cute she is.
2nd you see she is barefoot (story below)
3rd You see her making her “Wish List” of suggested changes to the song.
4th the band leader taking note of the changes.
5th Angelina is holding a candle with “Screemin’ Jay Hawkin’s (original artist 1956) picture on it.
6th the old soul in her voice.
She is the youngest published author in Norway. Angelina wrote and her Grandmother illustrated a book about why she sings barefoot. She was on a trip to Iran where her grandmother is from and met a street girl weighing people for money. Angelina sat and talked with the girl. Angelina asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and the girl replied, a doctor but that it could never happen. Angelina told her to never give up hope. The girl complimented Angelina on her shoes and Angelina noticed her scarred bare feet so she gave them to her, and the little girl told Angelina she would pray for her every day. Angelina sings barefoot to this day to remind herself (and the world) that there are still children in need. All book proceeds go to charity.
Her cover of suspicious minds is sublime 😙👌
GOD GIVEN TALENT SHE WAS SINGING AT 18 MO.
Your sound quality is top notch! Thanks for that and for your knowledgeable reaction 🙏
She is Vocal Prodigy. Her Voice is so refereshing to hear. All the Covers and her Original Song "Million Miles" & her LP "Old Enough" too good and her new song "Our Time" Listen if you are treally Musically Inclined Angel D
Girl you just stumbled onto the Greatest Female Vocalist on the Planet possibly the Galaxy
The most surprising thing to find out about Angelina is non of her family are singers or musicians. She has perfect pitch we first see her singing with a mike at 18 months. Later in playgroup looking tortured by the other children's singing and refusing to join in the discordant cacophony. I watched her grow singing works by all the great vocalists. She was shy as a child but as a performer and singer she has always been fearless. We heard her tackling great songs from the earliest age. She was only 6 when we saw her in the recording studio for the first time singing I WHO HAVE NOTHING by Tom Jones.
Thank you for taking the time to listen & react to Angelina Jordan for the 1st time. Really enjoyed your great reaction to & appreciation of this incredible cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1950s classic by Angelina (which she also arranged) - at age 9. Angelina Jordan from Norway is now 17, has over 200 covers as well as some original songs readily available on UA-cam - & a huge, very loyal fan base. While you really can't go wrong with any of her performances - in order to better understand her musical roots & early influencers, I highly recommend going back to her Norways Got Talent audition singing the Billie Holiday classic Gloomy Sunday - at age 7. (And why did she go on NGT at age 7? Well - she actually wanted to go on when she was younger, but 7 was the minimum age. :) Be sure to select a video clip with English subtitles - because while Angelina sings in English, the narrator & judges are speaking Norwegian. Looking forward to more of your Angelina reactions. Thank you. And may GOD continue to watch over & bless Angelina Jordan.
In this one, strong is the Force! You have just entered the vortex of the black hole -- uh, I mean, rabbit hole -- of "The Angelina Jordan Effect"! I hope you'll continue the journey with us. I will subscribe! Angelina did this studio performance in March 2015 at age 9 years, 2 months! She was born in Oslo, Norway, on January 10, 2006 and began studying jazz and great jazz artists around age 3. She gave her favorite shoes away to a little homeless girl she met in the Middle East at age 6 (which led to her vow to never wear shoes while publicly performing until all children in the world had basic necessities -- a vow she still faithfully keeps to this day at age 17). She auditioned for Norway's Got Talent at age 7 with Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday," after which she during the competition the songs "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Holiday), "Bang, Bang" (Nancy Sinatra), and "Summertime" (George Gershwin), winning the season's competition at age EIGHT with 46% of the total votes! Also at age 8, she sang "Fly Me to the Moon" (Frank Sinatra) on "The View," and began to do charity events from that time forward, raising well over 20 million euros for children's and environmental causes. At age 9 (the same age as this performance), she wrote and published (!!) a book called "Between Two Hearts" about her experience with the little homeless girl, making her the youngest published author in Norway's history! Age 10 was what many of us consider to be her seminal year of showing phenomenal and exponential growth in her vocal talent, abilities, uniqueness of style, power, beauty, and ability to morph into any type of voice and genre, until she is where she lives today in the heavenlies above "mere mortal" talents. And at 17, she is just now getting warmed up! The more you uncover her music and her incredible portfolio of about 200 covers and originals, and the more you learn about her as the incredibly wonderful, loving, humble, empathetic human being she is, the more you will be captivated by this once-in-a-generational artist/genius! Thank you for your reaction and comments! Please continue!
What else can you say but holy crap , lol.
"Welcome to the wonderful world of Angelina Jordan!"
If you choose to join us from all over the world on her musical journey it will be an experience which will blow your mind. You asked a lot of questions and, believe me, you will get all the answers and a lot more!
This particular performance stands alone because of it's incredible uniqueness but you will discover there is no particular genre you can associate her with, she sings it all. Is there a certain audience which enjoys her? Gender, age, color, language, religion, occupation, wealth, musical preference, it doesn't make any difference. She touches our heart with her love and once there it will never leave us. Crazy? No, she's the real deal. (Btw, you'll love how she sings 'Crazy' !)
Get ready, your subscriber numbers are about to shoot up very quickly.
She Born with this
I'm so lucky to have her sing for me. Thank you god♥️♥️♥️
I enjoyed your reaction, she is amazing, keep going! Can't wait, see you soon.
You will be totally amazed by AJ's rendition of Etta James classic "I'd rather go blind"
Her grandmother introduced her to the blues and jazz when she was very young. You can see her in this video if you look at the beginning. Her grandfather passed away a few years ago whom she was very close to and she wrote Million Miles in honor of him.
Welcome to the greatest talent on the planet. Been following her since 2015, and at 17 she has her own EP debut,mans it is amazing. 200+ covers and her original will keep you busy checking out all of her songs
Best wishes to you.
She's 17 now with a EP called Old Enough. 9 here.
Thanks, Angel - she was NINE here..(and supposedly did her own arrangements even at that age(!).. the candle she holds at the beginning has a pic of "Screamin' Jay Hawkins - the original artist) even though she's older now and doing her own stuff... and quite beautifully, this remains one of my favorites... appreciate your reaction!
You just hitched a ride on the Angelina Express. It only gets better.
No training no one can train her she above any one .
Thanks for your reaction! She is only 17 years old today and from Norway. She signed with the label Republic Records just 14 years old, I think we can safely leave the promotion to Republic Record. Marketing will start when her full album is released later this year. There's only one EP with 6 songs she's released from RR now, and they haven't started marketing until the full album is released!. Republic Records know 100% what they are doing? I think a lot of people don't realize how much Angelina has done in her short life (17). She performed FIFA AWARD song, and performed in front of 40 000 people only 11 years old invited by Norah Jones. She was also specially invited by Quincy Jones to perform on his 85th birthday in the O2 arena / London. And so on goes the list... She has over 250 songs on UA-cam with cover songs and many originals. Angelina also plays piano and guitar.
The truth is that within a year or two she will be the artist for the big occasions. and not a "bare belly plastic artist" who tops a list for a week and is forgotten just as quickly. She already eats most female vocalists for breakfast, and the label Republic Records and the rest of the music industry know that too! Angelina Jordan has nothing to prove. When she sometimes belts is it because the fits in the performances. She sings to us only she can do!
Angelina recently had a sold-out concert in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where there was an audience from 9 different country all the way from Australia and from 39 different states in the USA.
That girl has some pipes on her. She has a great future.
Great first reaction.
Angelina, originally from Norway but now living in LA, is barely 9 years old in this video but by this time is pretty much already a professional.
She is basically self taught No formal vocal training or vocal coaches. As far as we know the only vocal instruction she was given was how to protect her voice. No musicians or singers in her family.
By age 3 she was studying the jazz greats in UA-cam videos after being introduced to the music at an early age by her jazz fan grandmother.
She is still relatively unknown as her family wanted her to have as normal a childhood as possible.
She signed with Republic Records at age 14. Now 17 and graduated from high school she is ready to go full force with her career.
Awesome reaction Ms Angel D. Angelina is the Baby boomer left behind to be born later in life that will continue all the late greats unfinished work. She's been taking us back in time re-inventing songs with her charismatic sound and infusing it into todays era. You will be taken on a journey far more unimaginable, pulled in to an emotional ride that otherwise you would not imagine possible. Love to see you experience the journey down Angelia's world and thank you so much for sharing with us.
welcome to the world of Angelina Jordan, your life will never be the same.Angelina is a child prodigy and for the most part self trained. Beyond her significant singing capability is her brilliant musical interpretation ability, arrangement and composition skills. The arrangement for this song is Angelinas, the notes the man in the beginning was looking at were her last minute changes. She is a remarkable artist be even better a person devoting her career to spreading love and kindness and raising money for charities. Angelina has more than 170 covers and originals and she just released a new song which i think is the 1st song off her upcoming album
Angelina Jordan is a music prodigy she started singing at the age of 1.5 years and more than that she started with Billy Holiday Jazz. Angelina sings in 5 languages, designs her own clothes, and becomes the youngest author of a book in Norway that explains why she sings with no shoes, like her name, she truly is an angel with a heart of gold. Angelina won Norway's Got Talent when she was 7 years old (these are her words but she started at 7 years old and won at 8 years old) Her younger years before age 13 she was watched over by her mother and her Uncle who is also Angelina's manager who just wanted her to grow up normal. Her mother and uncle Turned down almost 90% of all requests for her to perform but even so from age 7years to 12 years old or so, she has been all over the world (Mother never more than a breath away) most of this was in support of children needs funding. Angelina has produced over 180 covers, and she makes all of them her own, all of which will astound you. New people to Angelina get sucked down this rabbit hole of not believing what they're hearing her excellent vocals and unique way of singing, Angelina is a master at music structure her ability to show absolute recognition to a cover while she makes it her own. Angelina writes her own music and produces it. Angelina's mother is Norwegian, and her father is from Sweeden The grandmother on her mother's side is from Iran (a prodigy in her own right) and her grandfather (recently deceased) is from Japan both grandparents are very involved with Angelina growing up, Angelina's original song a million miles is about losing her grandfather. Angelina is now 17 and lives in LA and just starting her commercial career with a tour of Norway and a new album for the fall of 23. I'm sure she will dominate the world market.
First off most will send you right to her 2020AGT where she made Queen cover literally her own, Queen liked her version of their song so much they gave her the rights to her version of their song .. she was 13 when she did this.
Another in the list is The Blue couch version of AJ covering Etta James at 12 years old with her brand new birthday present microphone microphone microphone
You should see her singing at 18 months old!
Angelina has been singing since age 1 1/2 - at 2 years old she started to teach herself how to sing by scrolling through UA-cam and listening to the jazz greats (Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and more). She has never had a long-term vocal coach - but has had training in music theory and songwriting as well as tips on how to keep her voice healthy. She also plays the piano and guitar.
Self taught.
She got her training from UA-cam videos, her other training was mostly in music theory, she is a natural because it runs in the family, her grandmother was a child prodigy in poetry and visual arts like painting. She not only performed this song, she arranged it and worked with the musicians for them to accompany her, everything here is Angelina, no one else produced this performance. That’s why she is a prodigy!
Great song to start with as you are about to open up the rabbit hole. It is deep and worth the time you spend discovering all she has to offer. She gets better with age.
New sub here for our Barefoot Princess ❤❤❤
Angel, what a perfect name for someone just embarking on your Angelina journey, I’ve listened to great singers all my life and have never encountered one with the versatility that Angelina possesses….I’m 74 and worked many concerts in my younger days, no one compares to Angelina IMO. I have subscribed to follow what will certainly be an amazing journey. Peace
Picture on the candle is Screaming Jay Hawkins. She did the cover from his original from 1958(you should see it). She made all arrangement of the song (writing last notes before take giving it to band-leader). She won NGT 2014 at age 7/8 and i voted for her win there (46% of all votes given in the final). With your name you will fit in nicely with us Angels. Saw her live in Kongsberg 2022. My best concert experience ever. Love from Norwegian subscriber. For every song you will do from her, she will always surprise you in a good way. Welcome to Angelina Jordan Astar( last name fits well).
kjell Screamin' Jay's original from 1956.
Welcome to our world angelina is our Queen ❤ 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
Angelina is self taught. She made this arrangement. No her family are not singers. She was barely 9 when she recorded this and she is 17 now. Her birthday is January 10. The how will never really be explained. All we can do is enjoy❤
Great Reaction 👍🙏👣🌹
New sub here Angel. Great reaction. She's 9 here. Minimal vocal training. Suggest going back a bit to her 4 Norway's Got Talent performances at 7 and 8. She won the show with 2 Billie Holiday covers, Bang Bang and Gershwin's Summertime sung in the Louis Armstrong style. Enjoy. There is NO other musical journey that compares to this miracle childs.
It really doesn't matter what you pick to listen to of hers. You will be amazed.
Welcome to the 🌍 of Angelina, the princess of 🎷azz music who does not wear shoes 🦶🦶 during her performance and for a very good reason...enjoy...👑🗣🎙
100% natural. The only training was to help protect her from straining and damaging her voice. Other than that, her main musical schooling was learning instruments. Her teachers were very aware of her gift and made sure she was free to develop according to her own interests. She did draw a lot of inspiration from the jazz greats as well as exploring her voice as a musical instrument. She’s a musical gift to the world. We are very lucky to have her.
This performance isn't typical of Angelina , she was advised not to perform in that manner again for fear of damaging her voice , she took that advice but she has performed this song many times since , without the growl and scream whistle for lack a better description .
I'd say scream whistle is perfect 😂
Its actually on her inhale.
What’s great about your reaction is that you still have no idea how good Angelina is. This song is a one-off performance by Angelina-she never sang it like this again. She covers five or six genres beautifully, authentically. She’s 9 here, 17 now and her voice can be completely mesmerizing. Angelina is easily the best singer I’ve ever heard, and I’ve been listening since the 1950’s.
Welcome to the world of the Barefoot Princess.
For her recent concert in New Hampshire a fan organized an online fundraiser and Angelina was greeted backstage by 500 roses. That is how much we love her. As a role model for young girls she demonstrates the power of family, dedication, focus, self-belief and caring for others. The story of her decision to perform barefoot is simply amazing.
What makes this more shocking is that, at the time of this recording, she had no professional voice training - she’s simply a prodigy. Not only that, she’s not from a family of musicians. In fact, she’s from Oslo, Norway (where this was recorded) - so she’s singing in a second language! Just God-given talent. Enjoy your trip down the Angelina Jordan rabbit hole.
Was in a recording studio aged six ( I who have nothing) check it out.
Just subscribed. You're in for a hell of a ride! I'm 79 and love this girl's voice, it just keeps getting better as years pass, I'll enjoy watching each new discovery.
🎉🎉🎉 The Barefoot Princess -
(From her book, television and radio interviews, and podcasts made between 2014-2015. Includes excerpts from her diary made that day in 2012.)
Why does Angelina sing barefooted? Angelina Jordan is known as "The Barefoot Princess" or "The Barefoot Princess of Jazz," amongst many other names. She always performs barefooted, whether in front of a live audience or during a studio performance. The story is that while living in the Middle East, at 6 years old, Angelina came across an orphaned girl, of her own age, sitting in the street, weighing people on a bathroom scale to earn money. Angelina said to herself, "I would like to share her life for one second to know what it is like to sit alone, wet, and damp, and barefoot in a corner of the street." Angelina could see the girl's bare feet were scarred and that it was cold outside, so she offered her own shoes to the girl. Little Angelina says that she really loved her shoes, as they were very nice and she knew she would miss them. But she saw the other little girl’s need for them, which outweighed her own desire to keep them. So she insisted the little girl take them.
Angelina called her Princess, even though the girl said she didn't live in a castle, but the ruins of a building next to where she sat. After sharing their hopes and dreams, the little girl said of Angelina's wish to sing for the world, "You will become the one you dream of and when your dreams come true, you have to remember the poor children without shoes; and I will pray for you Angelina.” Later that day, 6 y/o Angelina wrote in her diary, "The world is very strange. Right then and there, I felt as if a door in my heart opened up, and it was filled with lots of lights. It was as if there was, from Earth to Heaven, a staircase. I climbed the stairs. To be able to do something for another human - it was such a big thing…hard to describe really.”
From that point on, Angelina takes off her shoes, in honor of ‘Princess’ and all the other less fortunate children of the world, who are orphaned, hungry, or in want of even basic clothing. In 2015, at the age of 9, Angelina wrote a book about the encounter, as everyone continued to ask why she sang barefoot. Her grandmother, Mery Zamani, created the artwork for the book. So at 9, Angelina Jordan became the youngest published author in Norway. Angelina has performed alongside many other artists, raising attention and helping to raise over 21 million euros and millions of dollars for children in need.
Welcome to the world of Angelina Jordan Astar. You will get inundated with her Angels from all over the world. Currently 17 with her recent debut, Republic Records EP drop a month ago of her 6 originals, this cover is only a drop to her massive count of close to 200 covers and her other 5 originals. Winning Norways Got Talent at 8 years of age, her audition was at 7, to her appearance on America's Got Talent, The Champions at age 13...you will have a field day as you deep dive into her rabbit hole. Looking forward to your reactions.
And a brand new Song..Our Time is out now on the way to her announcement of a new album ✌️💯
She just released a new song on Friday called it’s Our Time
Angelina sent me to you. After watching you and Hannah, I Subscribed❗️ I’m starting at the beginning. 😇🌸
Great first reaction to Angelina! You will no doubt ask yourself many times "how?" There is no answer that us mere mortals can comprehend, only that she was born to sing. We can only be thankful for the gift that is Angelina!
Now a 17 , soon to be 18 year, January 10th, 2024, old beauty from Norway, first video of her singing is a Whitney Houston song at age 1 1/2, Grandma Played Jazz at home all the time, Billie Holiday etc., were always playing, Huge influence, gave shoes to a homeless girl in the middle east, begged mom to let her enter contest and finally did at age 7 when she entered and won Norway's got Talent after turning 8, became youngest published author at age 9, when she wrote a book about why she gave her shoes away and that special bond she still has, Appeared on AGT at 13 with an amazing Bohemian Rhapsody rendition she arrange her self and now releasing an amazing EP this year and brand new single dropped in the last few days. you will be getting lots more info from the Angels as she calls her fans. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
If you want to start at the beginning watch her at age 6 her first time in a recording studio singing “I who have nothing”. And all of her performances on Norway got talent at age 7.
🥰Welcome to AJ
Yep! Welcome to the journey of the unbelievable! She is amazing beyond her years. Enjoy