![]() The video was filmed in Siem’s New York living room in an effort to keep things feeling close and cozy. ![]() Regardless of the name she’s performing under, Siem makes music that will be familiar to anyone who’s heard her work before lyrics are chanted over hypnotic instrumentation to create pop-tinged poetry that wouldn’t be out of place in a dance club or a world-class concert hall. Holy is her first album under the moniker Frigga – a reference to the Norse goddess of love and destiny. I want people to sing their hearts out and dance, dance, dance as they listen,” she says. “Holy is an arms-wide-open embrace-all pop album. When asked how she would describe her third album, Sasha says she’s given up trying to categorize the music. How will you describe your latest album ‘Holy’? Related: Passionate Norwegian Singer/Songwriter Siem studied music and poetry at Cambridge University and Harvard University Her second album, Bird Burning, recalls Kate Bush in its fusion of the organic with the digital, while the lyrics pick apart the mythology surround Eve, and wonders why that Biblical sense of guilty still lingers in Western society’s conception of the feminine. She explains that she uses past experiences like motherhood, feminism and a traumatic incident from her past as inspiration for her music. The artist wrote and performed a good part of her third album, Holy, when she lived in Brooklyn with her husband and new baby. Meet British-Norwegian Singer-Songwriter and Composer Sasha Siem Today, the singer, song writer and cello performer has three albums under her belt. Since then, she’s constantly written, continually developing and honing her voice, moving into strikingly individual places. Siem studied music and poetry at Cambridge University and Harvard University. Related: 7 Years With Norwegian Singer/Songwriter Hanne Kolstø ![]() Sasha Kathrine Siem was born in London 1984 “Writing that first song set something free within me,” she has explained. Her first ever song opened up something inside her. At the age of 11 she read The Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, and was so struck she set about trying to transpose it into music. Sasha Kathrine Siem was born in London 1984. ![]() in 2010 she became one of the youngest people to win a British Composer Award. By her early twenties Sasha Siem had written music for the London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Opera House, Rambert Dance Company, Opera North, The Aldeburgh Festival, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, The London Sinfonietta, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ![]()
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