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Biography:
Vivi Grøn has grown up in the sea port Hirtshals which is located in the wild nature by the North Sea in the north of Jutland.
She started as a singer and composer at the age of 13 in various bands.
After high school she completed a music teacher education at Nordjysk Musikkonservatorium, where she also began as a jazz singer in her own bands.
When the Rhytmic Music Conservatory was established in Copenhagen, she took a degree as a singer and a teatcher in 1991.
She has gained a lot of inspiration from e.g. Butch Lacy, Birgitte Frieboe, Richard Boone, Cæcilie Norby,
Thomas Franck plus a lot of her fellow students that she used to play with, e.g. Carsten Dahl, Niels Præstholm, Tineke Nordhoek, Marie Louise Schmidt, Helle Marstrand and Benita
Haastrup.
She has mostly worked as a choir - and singing master, composer and organizer with the publication of two children’s song books and several choir movements/compositions for youth choirs within the genres of pop, jazz/latin, folk music and musicals.
She has been engaged as teacher at " Rythmical Music School for Children and Teenagers" in Copenhagen since 1997. www.rytmiskborneskole.dk
You can hear her latest jazz songs on the album "Mornings by the Sea"
with her jazz Quartet, which is to be released in september 2009.
The album is recorded by Thomas Vang at " On Location Studio"
and mixed by Bjarne Hansen at "Sun Studio" in Copenhagen.
Photos by Carsten Weide.
The CD project is surported by The Danish Artist Union and DJBFA.
I wish to thank Gateway Music.
