In October 2012 I recorded my debut album with, amongst others, great Italian jazz musicians Francesco Calì and Nico Gori. The album HERES TO LOVE​ is coming out in the fall of 2013. ​ ​​​HERES TO LOVE is the title of the album, and its also a line in the song Heres to life, which Francesco Calì and I recorded in duo. I first heard this song some years ago with the fantastic Shirley Horn and since then its been one of my favorite standards - a tribute to life and to love. The album contains jazz evergreens from the American songbook like Styne & Cahns Time after Time and Charlie Chaplins Smile, but there is also a strong Mediterranean feeling in many of the songs. Like Evening, which has a romantic, Italian touch. ​ ​Originally Francesco Calì wrote the melody for a beautiful poem called Sira, which means evening in Sicilian dialect. I immediately took to the song and wrote the English lyrics inspired by the poem. I would love to be able to sing it in Sicilian, but its such a difficult dialect. Maybe someday... ​​ I grew up in the outskirts of Aarhus – the second biggest town in Denmark. My childhood was all about childrens choir and classical piano until, at the age of 11, I discovered jazz music. For my eleventh birthday I got a real book filled with jazz standards and a new musical world had opened: Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderley, Ella Fitzgerald and Joni Mitchell were put on repeat on the stereo. ​​ Later on I also fell in love with Latin American music, tango, bossa nova and folklore. Many travels made me appreciate the culture and the language as well. Since then, I have always loved to sing in both Spanish and Portuguese. It adds a certain melancholy and roundness to the sound which the Danish language doesnt hold in the same way. ​​ In 1999 I started to study singing at RMC – the Rhythmic Music Conservatory – in Copenhagen. Meeting Francesco Calì (Italian pianist and accordionist) over a common love for Brazilian music was the beginning of a new time. I discovered Italy and ever since we have played together in different projects - both here in Denmark and in Italy.