KARIN KROG
Karin Krog is perhaps Norway’s leading jazz singer and certainly its most idiomatic. She is a unique song artist with a great international reputation, possessing her own distinctive style and voice. Her constantly creative approach towards contemporary jazz has never been bound by tradition, even though her music bears a deep respect for its forms. Karin is equally at home with jazz standards, blues or electronic experimental techniques and has continued to explore all of these avenues throughout her long career.
In addition to Karin’s work as a vocalist she has been active in improving the working conditions for musicians, and contributing towards a vital jazz milieu in Norway. In 2014 she celebrated 50 years since her first LP as a solo artist was released.
Karin Krog was born in Oslo, Norway, on the 15th of May 1937, and started to sing during her teenage years together with various local musicians. She attracted attention during jam sessions at the Penguin club in Oslo, and in 1955 was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen to sing in his sextet. Her broadcasting debut on Norwegian radio happened during the following year. By 1957 Karin was singing at the Humlen Restaurant in Oslo in company with some of the best Norwegian jazz musicians of that time, among others tenor saxophonist Mikkel Flagstad and pianist Einar Iversen and going on to participate in several Norwegian jazz concerts towards the end of the decade.
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