1. Angelina Jordan Astar was born on 10 January 2006 and is a Norwegian singer whose audition for the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent at the age of seven, singing "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday, became a viral video online and brought her worldwide press coverage.
Angelina Jordan went on to win the competition at the age of eight with her performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime".
Angelina Jordan has released multiple digital singles and EPs, and one full-length album called It's Magic.
Angelina Jordan appeared on the first season of Little Big Shots in 2016, and the second season of America's Got Talent: The Champions in 2020, where her cover version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" brought her much attention.
Angelina Jordan continued in the competition singing Nancy Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang " live in the semi-finals, and won with her performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime", in the style of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's 1958 recording of the song.
Angelina Jordan performed on several TV 2 programs in Norway over the next few years, including multiple appearances on Allsang pa Grensen and on TV4 in Sweden.
Angelina Jordan had a small guest role in the final episode of the Netflix series Lilyhammer, playing a girl who sings in a bar.
Angelina Jordan's recording debut, the three-song maxi-single My Christmas, was released in December 2014.
In November 2015, Angelina Jordan published the book Mellom to hjerter, which was illustrated by her grandmother, Iranian artist Mery Zamani.
Angelina Jordan performed "I Put a Spell on You" on the German edition of the show, Little Big Stars, in 2017.
On 27 June 2018, Angelina Jordan performed "Fly Me to the Moon" for Quincy Jones in The O2 Arena in London, as part of his 85th birthday celebration, and joined with other singers to perform "Man in the Mirror" to close the show.
In 2019, Angelina Jordan performed for former president Barack Obama and other public figures at the Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm.
Angelina Jordan later released a studio version of the same arrangement under her own copyright.
Angelina Jordan has since released two additional music videos for the song: one showing her singing the song "live" in a recording studio, the other an "official music video" featuring her younger sister.
In June 2022, after a two-year hiatus brought on by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Angelina Jordan resumed singing in front of live audiences with an appearance in the first episode of the final season of Allsang pa Grensen.
Angelina Jordan was born in Oslo, Norway, and has lived for extended periods both there and in Los Angeles.
Angelina Jordan lived for a time in the Middle East.
Angelina Jordan has a younger sister who has been featured in some of her music videos.
Angelina Jordan attended the Oslo Waldorf School and participated in the Oslo School of Music and Performing Arts after-school program, where she received vocal training and piano lessons.