Rebekka Karijord (Se)

As one reviewer said, ‘(Rebekka’s voice is) both powerful and strong, yet vulnerable and fragile.’ And thus is the journey of life and its many demands. These very days, Rebekka carries the soles of her magic-dipped feet to her Stockholm-based studio, which she shares with fellow Norwegian songstress Ane Brun, with whom she has also spent the last two years on the touring road. Within the somehow delicate-seeming brick and mortar of those studio walls, beyond spinning musical tales of a personal nature, Rebekka also composes for film, theatre and modern dance companies across Europe and the UK. Recent productions include for The Royal National Theatre in Stockholm and Oslo, film scores in France, Norway and Sweden, and both national and independent theatres throughout the continent. If your ears have been touched by the raw Scandinavian clarity of this Nordic belle, and your eyes have been fortunate enough to witness her unravelling on stage, then you know what I mean when I say: ‘Without Rebekka, the world we inhabit would be that bit colder and crueler than our lucky bones have it now.’