Sigrid Haanshus

After success in Norway’s Got Talent as a 12-year-old where she was awarded the Golden Buzzer and ended up in the final, - Sigrid Haanshus has released more than 20 singles and a compilation album. In June 2022, she was listed among artists such as Michael Jackson, Guns N' Roses and Tom Jones by the American website Covermesongs.com, for a place on The 50 Best Paul McCartney Covers ever. Her version of My Valentine, a single release from 2020, is listed as number 37. Sigrid currently releases her own music and writes both English and Norwegian lyrics, inspired of her own and other’s life experiences. She describes her style as folk-pop. Her first self-written song, «Alltid her», received a warm welcome and got listed on Spotify’s New Music Friday Norway amongst others. Sigrid Haanshus was born December 9th, 2002. She grew up on her family’s farm in a small village named Soknedal, in the middle of Norway. Sigrid discovered when she was about 8-year-old, that people were silent and listened when she sang. The film "Phantom of the Opera" inspired her to rehearse and perform her first song "Think of me". In 2011 she was chosen as a child soloist to perform with the famous Norwegian tenor, Stephen Brandt-Hansen, in his Christmas concerts at Trøndelag Theatre in Trondheim, Norway. Sigrid participated in Norway's Got Talent in 2015, where she got the first "Golden Buzzer" awarded in Norway ever, for her performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misèrables. The video on TV2 (Norwegian TV channel) from her audition is one of the most popular in Norway's Got Talent’s history.