Hello.My name is Maja Svisdahl.I..m a singer/songwriter from Norway. I write my own songs in Norwegian, by some reason that comes much more natural to me than writing in English.I..ve always sung for as long as I can remember. Wherever and whenever I went you would always catch me singing or humming a tune. I was a walking human music box, I never shut up. Either that or I would sit for hours drawing and making up stories about the characters I made on the paper. I was a child with a huge imagination.I also played the violin from age 12 to 16, but me and the violin clearly weren..t made for each other so I quit playing. I never stopped singing though.Through school I would always write something, it was like you opened this tap and all these words came pouring out. It..s still like that today. During school I never put music to what I..ve written, that came later.My first serious attempt with songwriting came at the age of 21 when I attended NISS (Nordic Institute for Stage and Studio) to study Popular Music for 2 years.
Wow, I thought; this is what I want to do for a living. At NISS I got to know and work with lots of very gifted young people. I also learned a lot.Especially one thing that makes music so magical for me is this:
When you hit that special connection with other people when you..re performing on stage is almost indescribable. It..s the best rush there is!After I graduated from NISS, I moved home and continued to write music.During the last two years I..ve also got involved in arranging and being one of the contributing acts to the singer/songwriter-project "UHØRTscene" which started up in 2007 in my hometown Trondheim. All the different people, the music they bring on stage and the positiveness.. I love it!It..s a steep and occasionally very interesting learning curve. Though It feels like I..ve been doing this for all my life (an old clichè I know), my journey has only just begun.
It..s due yet to know what the future holds, but it..s exciting!Thank you for taking your time for reading this and visiting my profile.All my best;Maja
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