Aurora Biography – Aurora The Singer
Born in Norway, Aurora Aksnes is a talented Norwegian singer, songwriter, and record producer. She was born in Stavanger, Norway. She released her debut extended play “Running With The Wolves” in 2015 via Decca Records.
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In March 2016, Aksnes released her debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend. In 2018, she released her second extended play, Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1), followed by her second studio album, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2), in June 2019.
All My Demons Greeting Me as A Friend
Her first track, “Puppet” was released in December 2012 followed by “Awakening” her second track in 2013. Her first single signed to her labels Glassnote Records and Decca Records, “Under Stars” was released in November 2014, and “Runaway” followed in February 2015.
Her second single, “Running with the Wolves” was released in April 2015. She appeared at summer festivals such as Way Out West, Wilderness, and Green Man Festival. Aurora’s third single, “Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)” was released in September 2015 and has received continued support in the national press, on national radio and popular online music blogs.
Aurora performed at the 2015 Nobel Peace Price Concert. She has played a soldout headline show in London and supported Of Monsters and Men at Brixton Academy in November 2015. Aurora recorded a cover of the Oasis track “Half the World Away” for the 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert.
Her next single, which came after “Half The World Away”, was released in January 2016, titled “Conqueror” and a music video was uploaded the following month. Her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend was eventually released on 11 March 2016, receiving generally positive reviews from critics.
After releasing it, she went on to embark on her European tour, making a number of visits to the UK in between. She featured in British band Icarus’ song “Home” and released a cover of David Bowie’s Life on Mars.
Two-Part Album
When her first album “All My Demons Greeting as a friend” Debuted, She said it was the first album of many more to come. After coming back from her European tour in May 2016, Aksnes announced that she was ready to begin writing and producing more material, which will form her second studio album.
She stated in a Facebook event that she has fifteen demo songs and has written a thousand songs/poems. Since the announcement, Aurora has released “I Went Too Far” as a single. A music video for the track was released on 4 July 2016.
Between April and August 2018, the singer released two singles, “Queendom” and “Forgotten Love”, which would be included in the first half of a two-part album divided into “steps” Aksnes recorded the album during her stay in France in January of that year, and the production included the producers Askjell Solstrand, Roy Kerr and Tim Bran, with Aurora herself also involved in this aspect
While maintaining some of the themes and stories of the previous album, this production would mark the first time that Aurora has incorporated themes of political and sexuality into her music. Most of the new inspiration came from the interaction that she had with her fans during her first tour.
The music video for “Queendom” saw its release in May 2018, which presented themes of inclusivity and empowerment of “the underdog”, particularly her LGBT fans. In the video, Aurora kisses one of her female dancers to convey that “every type of love is accepted and embraced” in her “queendom”.
On September 28, 2018, the singer surprisingly released the first half of her second album on EP format, under the title Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1). The EP features eight songs, and the title itself comes from the eighth track included on it, which Aurora declared as “the most important song I’ve ever written”. A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) followed on June 7th, 2019.
On 12 April 2019, Aurora contributed to three songs on the Chemical Brothers’ ninth album No Geography. On 4 November 2019, the soundtrack to the Disney film Frozen II was released, with Aurora providing backing vocals on the song “Into the Unknown”. On 9 February 2020, she performed the song onstage as part of the 92nd Academy Awards. She released her solo version of “Into the Unknown” on 3 March 2020.
