Eivør Pálsdóttir
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Eivør Pálsdóttir |
| Born | 21 July 1983 |
| Origin | Faroe Islands |
| Genres | Art pop, Chamber pop, Synth pop, Folk pop, Folk rock, Electropop, Jazz |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Tutl |
| Associated acts | Clickhaze |
| Website | EIVOR.COM |
| Notable instruments | |
| vocals, guitar | |
Eivør Pálsdóttir (pronounced [ˈaivœɹ ˈpɔlsˌdœʰtəɹ]; born 21 July 1983 in Syðrugøta, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese -Icelandic singer-songwriter with a distinct voice and a wide range of interests in various music genres spanning from rock, jazz, folk, and pop, to European classical music. Her roots are in the Faroese ballads. Usually she is only addressed by her first name Eivør.
Many of her songs are in Faroese, some are in Icelandic and the most recent are mostly in English.
At 13 she had her first performance on Faroese television and won a national singing contest the same year. In 1999 at the age of 15, Eivør joined the rock band Clickhaze.
One year later in 2000, she released her first album Eivør Pálsdóttir. It is a mixture of classical Faroese ballads accompanied only by guitar and bass with jazz influences and texts by famous Faroese writers. Many of the songs were written by Eivør. By this time she was already a professional musician.
In 2001, she won the national Faroese band contest with her band - Clickhaze Prix Føroyar. In 2002, Eivør moved to Reykjavík to study classical and jazz music. A mentor of the Faroese music scene, Kristian Blak asked her to be the lead singer for the jazz group - Yggdrasil, which released their first album the same year.
Well known as a jazz performer, she released a rock album with Clickhaze the same summer, thus proving her wide range again. Touring with Clickhaze in the Faroes, to Sweden, Denmark (Roskilde Festival), Iceland and Greenland was a great success.
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