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Yohanna - Beautiful Silence from her 2008 album called "Butterflies And Elvis"
http://www.icelandicmusic.com/Music/Artist/10187/yohanna/yohanna
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ABOUT YOHANNA:
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. The family moved to Hafnarfjörður when Yohanna turned eight and thats where she had her first real opportunity to put her talent on show. She was one of seven hundred children participating in a song contest when singing teacher María Björk spotted her potential. María offered Yohanna a place at her childrens singing school, and it was there that she learned the basics of performing modern pop songs. Everyone was amazed not only by her perfect pitch, range, and maturity, but also by the control she displayed when performing. Besides this she showed an innate ability to quickly memorize, learn and adapt songs to suit her own individual vocal style.

Yohanna recorded her first album at the age of nine, and it was released on her tenth birthday in the year 2000. 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 as it was a joint decision between her manager and parents to give Yohanna some space to grow up and work on her musical skills away from the spotlight.

In order to develop both her voice and her own personal musical style, Yohannas teenage years were spent working in and out of the studio with musical instructors, songwriters and producers. Educationally speaking, this was a busy period for a young lady who also tried her best to attend school regularly and have some fun with her friends along the way. Yohanna was nevertheless away from home for considerable periods, rehearsing in New York or Los Angeles and meeting with music business people all over the world. After turning down a recording contract with a major label, Yohanna spent some time in Denmark working on her vocal techniques. During this time she also recorded 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. Shes really amazing.

The album was well received upon its release in early 2008. Yohannas years as a child recording star were now well and truly behind her and she put all her heart and soul into her newly honed sound. When songwriter and producer Óskar Páll Sveinsson set out to ask Yohanna to interpret the song Is It True? for the 2009 Icelandic National Eurovision Preselection Song Contest, he was looking for Yohannas particular RnB sound and style and indeed it soon proved to be the right decision.

At the age of eighteen, Yohanna has come full circle and now she herself teaches children to sing at the school where she started her own career some ten years ago. Moreover she is still concentrating on developing her own vocal technique yet further by attending classes at the Reykjavík Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts. Yohanna has successfully blossomed into a soulful, hardworking and highly motivated young vocalist who has now taken full control of her own destiny.

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  • great voice...hope to hear more from her!!!

  • She will. She is current creating a new album. read it on her myspace :P

  • When you say her myspace, do you mean the yohannamusic one ( aka official ) or do you have her personal one, if so can you please give it me? =D xxx

  • The Yohannamusic one :P

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  • We are working hard (in unison with Yohanna and her Manager) to try and promote Yohanna throughout the entire globe - We need your help and support. Please check us out (Click Team Yohanna) - view the vids, add us as friends etc. If there is anything YOU think we can do to help her on her road to fame then we would love to hear from you.

    Yohanna has a very special gift that needs to be experienced by the entire world. Her voice is amazing - Help make this happen!

    Thanks,

    Andy (Team Yohanna)

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  • WOW WOW WOW!! how you never won is beyond me!! I'm going now onto Itunes to buy your Album!! 12 points from The UK!! FANTASTIC!!!

    

  • Why is this girl not a Superstar? So much better than anything else today! Her voice and music...just so good. This track is a hit all the way!

  • OUTSTANDING, AMAZING, FABULOUS. She's captured me with her alluring vocals. She and so many others blow most of the IDOL contestants out of the water. American Idol should do a "You Tube" Idol one year where all their contestants come only from artists who have posted their talent on "You Tube".

  • My uncle wrote and produced this :)

  • will share this on fb........hope it can spread out fastly

  • She is very good.. Clear voice and she reminds me a little of Agnetha Faltskog.. well let the new generation begin. Wanna hear Yohanna more.

  • Nice voice !! I just know her from the TV show "one life one earth" in HK. The program visited Iceland last year and use this on the background music...........

  • BTW .... Yohanna's new single "SLOW DOWN" is now available to download on iTunes. You can find out more info on our Channel. Thanks again, Andy @ TY

  • @Eduardoz19 - Excellent. This is what we're after - Yohanna being heard globally. It's only right for someone with so much talent :)

    Regards,

    Andy @ TY

  • @TEAMYOHANNA She is being heard in Peru at the moment!! =) gorgeous girl with a privileged voice!

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