Michelle Djarling/Tomas Raae/Jakob Park at Vinterjazz at Vinbaren Vesterbro Torv

Michelle Djarling is a rare and beautiful rose in the Scandinavian musical landscape. Her vocal timbre and vocal lecture is silky soft, sonorous as a soprano sax and she tells stories with a credibility and authenticity reserved for the few.

Michelle Djarling is a self-taught singer-song-writer. And the self-taught element of her musicality is perhaps what makes her a more interesting acquaintance. There is something unschooled, unpolished and surprising about her vocal timbre, phrasing and songwriting that makes her unpredictable and exciting.

Besides from knowing a good song's structure from the inside, she has also flirted with writing music for the big screen. The awareness of the musical structure is not only reflected in her music, but her whole way of carrying herself....

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Michelle Djarling is a rare and beautiful rose in the Scandinavian musical landscape. Her vocal timbre and vocal lecture is silky soft, sonorous as a soprano sax and she tells stories with a credibility and authenticity reserved for the few.

Michelle Djarling is a self-taught singer-song-writer. And the self-taught element of her musicality is perhaps what makes her a more interesting acquaintance. There is something unschooled, unpolished and surprising about her vocal timbre, phrasing and songwriting that makes her unpredictable and exciting.

Besides from knowing a good song's structure from the inside, she has also flirted with writing music for the big screen. The awareness of the musical structure is not only reflected in her music, but her whole way of carrying herself.

Michelle Djarling is an artist with an original and unique vocal, but if one really had to compare her to similar artists, one could bring up the likes of Melody Gardot, Lisa Ekdahl and Patsy Cline.

At this edition of Vinterjazz 2016 the singer is accompanied by Korean pianist Jakob Park and Danish bassist Tomas Raae. Together they will take the listeners on a musical journey where jazz, pop, samba and country co-exists in a musical universe without limits. For as Nina Simone put it: "Jazz is a term invented by the whites to categorize the blacks".

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