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NOORA NOOR

About Me


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Noora Noor is Norway's soul sensation. Usually referred to as the "Scandinavian Queen of Soul", her first album "Curious" sold around 50.000 in total and won Noora the Norwegian Hit Award for Best Female Artist. Her hit "Need you" was one of the first Nordic videos to spin on The Lick / MTV and was Stargates first success. Noora also won the prize for Best Live Artist after her first Norwegian tour.
Her next album, recorded in London and New York took a while to finish as Noora got ill and had to stop all recording for 2 years. The album titled "All I Am" was released in 2004 and contained radio hits such as "Zeros".
In 2005 Noora participated in Nelson Mandela's 46664 Concert in Tromsø and she is now an ambassador for the 46664 Aids Awareness program.
Noora Noor was collaborating with Mike Scott from the Waterboys on the single “In The Beginning Was Love” in 2007, a song Mike has written for One People – the peace organisation. Noora also released a single "Feelin it" with renowned Norwegian hiphop producer Tommy Tee and Jojo Pellegrino that year. She participates and has co-written a song on the popular MadCon album released by Sony around Europe and US release is forthcoming on Reprise Records this Spring.
Noora Noor's exciting third album was recorded in San Jose, California in November/December last year. The album titled "Soul Deep" was just released in Norway with raving reviews. On this album Noora changes her style totally from the former two albums which were very much modern R&B albums. On this album however Noora goes back to the sound of southern soul. To the sound of Stax and Motown and deep into the the roots of soul music.
Noora is my real name, it’s Arabic and means ”God’s light” – a guiding light or beacon to help you along. Hopefully my music can bring some light and happiness into peoples lives in spite of sadness, surrounding threats of violence, terror, racism or even just too much stress in peoples lives..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/11/2006
Influences: Etta James, Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder
Sounds Like:
Noora Noor performs Ocean of Me with Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra
Noora Noor performs "Funky Way" from her new album on NRK1 Norwegian TV program Grosvold:

Noora Noor performs "What man have done" with a small band setup on Norwegian TV:

Noora Noor performs "You'll always be free" on Norwegian TV:

Noora Noor in Diversidad - The Urban Experience! DIVERSIDAD : European Urban Experience !
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The peace project One People with Mike Scott from The Waterboys and me on Breakfast TV in Norway:

Video from the "Feelin.. it" single. With Tommy Tee and Jojo Pellegrino:

Me in Doo Wop video with MadCon:

Record Label: Blue Mood/Grappa
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Festivalene er 2 uker unna!

Da er det bare 2 uker til jeg starter med festival konserter.  Jeg gleder meg stort til å få igang dette toget!  Vi starter på hjemmebane i Drammen den 5. juni.  Jeg spiller ca kl. 20,00.Bare å komme!...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 14:55:00 GMT

Øya bekreftet!

Idag ble det offentliggjort at vi skal ha konsert på Øya. Der kommer vi til å stille med blåserekke og et par overraskelser. Jeg gleder meg enormt til den konserten i Middelalderparken! Sist uke of...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:41:00 GMT

Festivalene begynner å bli satt!

Det er med stor glede at jeg kan begynne å legge ut datoer for festivaler.  Det er booket flere enn de som er nevnt nå, men vi må vente med å offentliggjøre konserter til festivalene har lagt ut sitt ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:05:00 GMT

18. plass. God start på plata!

Idag gikk Soul Deep inn på 18. plass. For meg er det helt strålende for soul selger generelt mindre i Norge enn rockeplater. Så jeg er veldig fornøyd med at folk ser ut til å like plata.Det blir mye f...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:52:00 GMT

6 på terningen i VG

Jeg måtte gråte noen gledestårer da VG ringte meg oss og sa at jeg fikk 6 av anmelderen deres! Idag har det tikket inn 5ere fra Aftenposten, Fedrelandsvenne, Adresseavisen og Avisa Nordland så jeg er ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:37:00 GMT

FØRSTE ANMELDELSE

Jeg ble helt slått i bakken idag da jeg åpnet Drammens Tidene. Plata fikk en 5-er og det sto bl.a. at det var påbudt å gå og kjøpe plata. Jeg ble så glad at jeg holdt på å begynne og grine!
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:20:00 GMT

RELEASE KONSERT I OSLO

Release Konsert 14. mars!Da er det klart for release konsert i Oslo på GAMLA.  Stedet er en av de eldste konsertscener i Oslo, så det passer utmerket for å spille og synge god gammel soul musikk.  I b...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:31:00 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS TO MY STARGATE FRIENDS!

Yesterday night the fabulous production team Stargate won a Grammy in the USA! They won for the song "Miss Independent" by Ne-Yo. In 1999 - ten years ago - Stargate..s international career started ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:54:00 GMT

New single coming next week!

Finally I am able to say to you that I will have a single out on radio in Norway next week. I know this has taken a lot of time. This time the album might come as a shock to you, but I had to go back...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:38:00 GMT