Hanne Boel
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Hanne Boel is a successful Danish singer. She covers a range of styles including pop, soul, gospel, rock, and jazz. Boel has had great success on the Scandinavian charts. Although she performs in English, her work is not well known in the U.K. and USA.
Boel graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1980, and then spent a year at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She returned to Denmark and taught music, performed as a choir soloist, and sang with the Danish funk band Blast.
In 1987, Boel recorded a jazz album, Shadow of Love, with Jørgen Emborg, Mads Vinding, and Alex Riel. The following year Boel released Black Wolf, an album that featured performances in the R&B/soul vein. The album was a great success, winning the Danish Music Award for Danish Female Singer of the Year. Her 1990 follow-up album, Dark Passion, won four 1991 Danish Music Awards
: Album of the Year, Danish singer of the year, Hit of the Year (I Wanna Make Love to You), and Video of the Year.
Over the subsequent two decades, Boel has released 15 additional albums, and continues to enjoy success in Scandinavia. Her two most recent albums mark a return to a more jazz-influenced genre.
Boel graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1980, and then spent a year at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She returned to Denmark and taught music, performed as a choir soloist, and sang with the Danish funk band Blast.
In 1987, Boel recorded a jazz album, Shadow of Love, with Jørgen Emborg, Mads Vinding, and Alex Riel. The following year Boel released Black Wolf, an album that featured performances in the R&B/soul vein. The album was a great success, winning the Danish Music Award for Danish Female Singer of the Year. Her 1990 follow-up album, Dark Passion, won four 1991 Danish Music Awards
Danish Music Awards
The Danish Music Awards is a Danish award show. The show has been arranged by IFPI since 1989, and was originally called IFPI-prisen until 1991, when it changed its name to Dansk Grammy . The current name was given in 2001, after the American Grammy Awards took copyright on the name Grammy....
: Album of the Year, Danish singer of the year, Hit of the Year (I Wanna Make Love to You), and Video of the Year.
Over the subsequent two decades, Boel has released 15 additional albums, and continues to enjoy success in Scandinavia. Her two most recent albums mark a return to a more jazz-influenced genre.
Solo Albums
- 1987: Shadow Of Love (Boel/Emborg/Winding/Riel)
- 1988: Black Wolf
- 1990: Dark Passion
- 1992: My Kindred Spirit
- 1992: Kinda Soul
- 1994: Misty Paradise
- 1995: Best Of Hanne Boel
- 1996: Silent Violence
- 1998: Need
- 1999: Strangely Disturbed
- 2000: Boel & Hall (with Martin Hall)
- 2002: Beware of the Dog
- 2004: Abaco
- 2007: Private Eye
- 2008: A New Kinda Soul
- 2010: I Think It's Going To Rain
- 2011: The Shining Of Things