YOHANNA

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YOHANNA //

Icelandic singer Yohanna suddenly came onto the European audience during the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. She ended second and the song became a big hit in several countries.

The album was released throughout Scandinavia and charted Top 20 in several countries in Europe.

Yohanna is busy working with a new album due for release in 2012 and an Eva Cassidy tribute show which she does in collaboration with Dan Cassidy.

There was never any doubt that Yohanna (Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir) would become a singer. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 16th 1990, she was a gifted child and started singing even before she could talk.

Yohanna and her parents moved to Reykjavík in Iceland when she was just two years old and she continued to show great interest in music. Yohanna recorded her first album at the age of nine. The debut album was a huge success and was followed up by a second album in 2001, confirming her status as a true child prodigy. Her third album, consisting of popular Christmas Carols, was released in late 2003. This proved to be her last album for a number of years to give Yohanna some space to grow up and work on her musical skills away from the spotlight.

She started recording her first adult album Butterflies and Elvis with British songwriter Lee Horrocks and sound engineer Thomas Yezzi. Asked to say what he thought of Yohanna, Yezzi commented ‘She is a young, white Icelandic girl with the soul of a fifty year old black woman. She’s really amazing.’

When songwriter and producer Óskar Páll Sveinsson set out to ask Yohanna to interpret the song "Is It True?" for the 2009 Icelandic Eurovision Song Contest, he was looking for Yohanna’s particular R'n'B sound and style and indeed it soon proved to be the right decision. Yohanna came second in the international final and Butterflies & Elvis was released around Europe with "Is It True" as a major hit in several countries.

Yohanna has successfully blossomed into a soulful, hardworking and highly motivated young vocalist who has now taken full control of her own destiny. She is busy working on her next album due for Spring 2012.

Yohanna is moving to Norway in January 2012 to be able to travel easier around in Europe.