Born on this day ...

[Ruby]

Happy Birthday to Silje Nergaard who was born on this day in 1966, in a place that’s unspellable on an English keyboard, in Norway. She’s a jazz/pop vocalist and songwriter, and I’ve listened to some of her stuff before and have liked it without wanting to be fully committed. I guess that’s fence-sitting isn’t it? She’s hugely popular in her native land and has performed and recorded with Pat Metheny (among others) so can’t be terrible – he wouldn’t waste his time. My impression of her music is that she has a lovely clean, clear voice – perfect pitch - and she doesn’t do vocal gymnastics, which she probably could, with consummate ease, if she cared to. There is nothing at all not to like – all very tasteful and pleasant, and to be fair, she does convey emotion without over-embellishing, which is quite an art - it's just not particularly scintillating stuff in my view, which of course, is subjective.  

Her breakthrough - with Mr Metheny present ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvkhnGQGbQo

And from a much more recent album ...