1. At the Danish Music Awards in November 2011, Obel won five prizes, including Best Album and Best Debut Artist.
23 Facts About Agnes Obel
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Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel was born in Gentofte, Copenhagen, on 28 October 1980, the elder of two siblings.
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Agnes Obel learned to play the piano at a very young age.
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Agnes Obel plays a pupil who shares her table with the new student Andreas.
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Agnes Obel attended high school at Det frie Gymnasium, a free school where she was able to play a good deal of music.
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Agnes Obel debuted as a solo singer with her first album Philharmonics.
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Agnes Obel wrote, played, sang, recorded, and produced all the material herself.
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In October 2011, Agnes Obel won 2012 European Border Breakers Award.
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Agnes Obel won Best Album of the Year, Best Pop Release of the Year, Best Debut Artist of the Year, Best Female Artist of the Year, and Best Songwriter of the Year.
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Agnes Obel played at the iTunes UK Festival at the Roundhouse in London on 17 September 2013.
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In October 2014, Agnes Obel played for the first time in L'Olympia in Paris.
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Agnes Obel recorded strings with new musicians Frederique Labbow, Kristina Koropecki, and John Corban.
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In September 2016, Agnes Obel released a new single, "Golden Green".
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On 29 October 2019, Agnes Obel announced the title of her upcoming album, Myopia, on social media, and released the new single "Island of Doom".
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The visual show opens up with a shot of Agnes Obel and is completely dominated with blue colors and hues, showing a unique landscape that appears out of this world.
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In June 2020, for the first time, Agnes Obel showed in a video her Berlin studio where she improvised some music with her band.
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In December 2021, it was announced that Agnes Obel would perform at the 2022 Rock Altitude Festival, a music festival held in Le Locle, Switzerland.
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Agnes Obel is working on depression treatment pieces for a clinic in Denmark.
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Agnes Obel is described by The Irish Times journalist Lauren Murphy as "the architect of eerie, otherworldy music that straddles neo-classical, jazz and chamber pop".
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Agnes Obel is influenced by artists such as Roy Orbison and by the French composers Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Erik Satie.
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In February 2017, and after her covers of John Cale and Jeff Buckley songs, Agnes Obel performed "Hallelujah" in a tribute to the late Leonard Cohen at the 'Victoire de la Musique 2017'.
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Agnes Obel met Alex Bruel Flagstad, her future husband, when they were both 13.
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Agnes Obel has said that she suffers from insomnia while in the process of writing songs.