Sissel Kyrkjebø (born June 24, 1969 in Bergen, Norway), also known as just … Read Full Bio ↴Sissel Kyrkjebø (born June 24, 1969 in Bergen, Norway), also known as just Sissel, is a Norwegian singer. She is best known for singing the Olympic Hymn (Hymne Olympique) at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, for duets with Plácido Domingo, Warren G and The Chieftains, and for participation on the Titanic film soundtrack.

Also she performed during the intermission of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986 in Bergen, opening act of the winter Olympic games in 1994 at Lillehammer, voice to the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish version of “the little mermaid, Sung on the Titanic album (‘My heart will go on’ was originally written to her), Royal Variety show in London 1995, Preformed at annual Christmas concert in Vienna, 2000 Nobel peace price concert with Josh Groban singing “the prayer”, toured with The Lord of the Rings Symphony Tour in 2004 and her latest achievement is a number one on the Billboard classical charts with the christmas album “Spirit of the Season - with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Sissel”

Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and folk songs to classical vocals. Her work on the soundtrack to Titanic has led to comparisons with Irish singer Enya.

Sissel's combined solo record sales (not including soundtracks and other albums to which she contributed) amount to over 9 million albums sold, most of them in Norway -- a country with only 4.5 million people.

She’s released over 14 studio albums, her Christmas album from 1986 is the best selling album in Norway ever with almost one mill copies sold! She’s featured on several soundtracks and sold well over nine million albums world wide and her popularity continues to grow!

She truly is a northern star!

Here are the lyrics to her song "Ready to go home":

On this street below these walls
Where I used to walk now I can barely crawl
All this darkness rise and tall
Lord shine a light for me I’m ready to be caught

I’m ready to go home
I’m ready to receive forgiveness for my sins
I’m ready to begin

Take this river to the sea
Where the delta flows
The tide is washing over me
Guide this soul to heavens door
Show me where tomorrow lays
I’m waiting to be born

I’m ready to lay down
I’m ready now to sleep a promise I must keep
I’m ready to go home

So time I’ll lay down with these memories
Breathe the shallow deep inside of me
If time has run its course with me

I’m ready to go home
I’m ready to receive forgiveness for my sins
I’m ready to begin

When the evening shadows fall
When the time has come
I let defences fall
To surrenders to survive
I will give up everything to those I leave behind

I’m ready to go home
I’m ready to receive forgiveness for my sins
I’m ready to begin
I’m ready to lay down
I’m ready now to sleep a promise I must keep
I’m ready to go home, again

Going home again

Inn Til Deg
Sissel Lyrics

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(Lars Muhl/Trygve Hoff)

Ansikt. Øyne,
Og et smil som du tok med.
Ikke mer å gjøre
Ingentig og høre
Ingen ord og tanker,
Jeg er uten tid og sted

Og skal aldri finde fred...

Håpet, drømmen
Den korte lykken som jeg fikk.
Alt det jeg så men savnet,
Alt det jeg fikk og favnet
Det tok du fra meg, kjære...
Du bare gikk og tok det med.
Og jeg skal aldri finde fred.

Så sig meg hvor jeg skal lete.
Si meg hvor langt jeg skal gå.
Hva må jeg si - hvis jeg skal finne
Inn til deg igjen?

Tusen løfter...
Du brøt dem alle nå i kveld.
Nå har du flyktet fra meg,
Du ville ikke ha meg.
Jeg står igjen alene,
Du reiser mot et ukjent sted,
Og jeg skal aldri finne fred.

Så sig meg hvor jeg skal lete.
Si meg hvor langt jeg skal gå.

Hva må jeg si - hvis jeg skal finne
Inn til deg igjen?

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Sissel's song Inn Til Deg are incredibly emotional, evoking a sense of longing and loss. The first verse describes a woman with a face, eyes, and a smile that the singer once knew, but who now seems out of reach. There is nothing left for the singer to do, nowhere left to listen, and no words or thoughts left. The singer feels unanchored in time and place, and trapped in an unending search for peace that she will never find.

The second verse recounts the brief happiness that the singer once felt, the hopes and dreams that she had and the things that she missed. Everything she had and held dear was taken away by someone she loved, leaving her forever bereft, without any hopes of finding peace. The chorus is an appeal to the person who took away the singer's happiness, asking where to look for them, how far she has to go, and what she must say to find her way back to them.

Overall, the song is a lament about lost love and the search for meaning and connection in the face of overwhelming pain and uncertainty. It speaks to the universal experience of heartbreak and the human desire to find solace and reconciliation even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Line by Line Meaning

Ansikt. Øyne,
Looking at your face, your eyes,

Og et smil som du tok med.
And the smile that you took with you.

Ikke mer å gjøre
There's nothing left to do

Ingentig og høre
No one to hear or listen

Ingen ord og tanker,
No words, no thoughts,

Jeg er uten tid og sted
I am without time and place

Og skal aldri finde fred...
And will never find peace...

Håpet, drømmen
Hope, dream,

Den korte lykken som jeg fikk.
The brief happiness that I had.

Alt det jeg så men savnet,
All that I saw but missed,

Alt det jeg fikk og favnet
All that I received and embraced,