SISSEL KYRKJEBØ - GOING HOME

GOING HOME

SISSEL KYRKJEBØ

SONGWRITER: ANTONIN DVORAK & WILLIAM ARMS FISHER

COUNTRY: NORWEGIAN

ALBUM: NOTHERN LIGHTS(LIVE)

LABEL: DENON RECORDS

GENRE: CLASSICAL

YEAR: 2018

Sissel Kyrkjebø (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsɪ̀sːl̩ ˈçʏ̀ʁçəˌbøː]; born 24 June 1969), also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano.

Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Her musical style ranges from pop recordings and folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias. She possesses a "crystalline" voice and wide vocal range, sweeping down from mezzo-soprano notes, in arias such as Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix from Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila, to the F natural above soprano C. She sings mainly in English and Norwegian, but has also sung songs in Swedish, Danish, Irish, Italian, French, Russian, Icelandic, Faroese, German, Neapolitan, Māori, Japanese, and Latin.

She is well known for singing the Olympic Hymn (Hymne Olympique) at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway; for duets with Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Josh Groban, Neil Sedaka, Mario Frangoulis, Russell Watson, Brian May, Tommy Körberg, Diana Krall, Warren G, Charles Aznavour, Dee Dee Bridgewater and The Chieftains; and her participation on the Titanic film soundtrack.

Sissel received her first U.S. Grammy nominations on 6 December 2007 for a collaboration with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Spirit of the Season, a collection of songs from the choir's 2006 Christmas concert at Temple Square, was nominated for the Best Classical Crossover Album of the Year, as well as Best Engineered Classical Album.

Sissel's combined solo record sales (not including soundtracks and other albums to which she contributed) amount to 10 million albums sold, most of them in Norway, a country with 5 million people. Her albums have also sold well in Sweden, Denmark and Japan. Together with Odd Nordstoga, they are the only Norwegian artists to have an album go 11 times platinum in album sales for Strålande jul" (Glorious Christmas).

Her first name 'Sissel' is a Norwegian variant of 'Cecilia'. This is a popular first name from Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of church music. 

Going home, going home

I'm just going home

Quiet like, some still day

I'm just going home

It's not far... yes, close by

Through an open door

Work all done, care laid by

Goin' to fear no more

Mother's there expecting me

Father's waiting too

Lots of folk gathered there

All the friends I knew, (all the friends I knew)

All the friends I knew

Ah-ah... I'm going home

Nothing lost, false gain

No more fret nor pain

No more stumbling on the way

No more longing for the day

Goin' to hope no more

Morning star lights the way

Restless dream all gone

Shadows gone, break o' day

Real life... yes, begun

There's no break, ain't no end

Yes, a living on

Wide awake, with a smile

Goin' on and on

Going home, going home

I'm just going home

It's not far... yes, close by

Through an open door, (through an open door)

I'm just going home

(Going home, going home)

Going home...