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
The Sleeping Princess
Sissel Lyrics
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With lovely eyes
Closed in sleep, the princess lies,
By a fairy charm enchanted,
Doomed to dream in forests haunted:
Hush! Hush!
Pale and wan, as dead she were,
Sleeps the princess ever there.
Sudden on the silence breaking,
Laughing, shouting, merrymaking,
Thro' the gloom the woodnymphs sweep,
Yet they do not break her sleep.
Fast asleep the princess lies,
Wrapped in mystery her eyes,
By a fairy charm enchanted,
Doomed to dream in forests haunted!
Hush! Hush!
Baleful charm and slumber fell:
Will she wake?
Ah, none can tell!
Hush! Hush!
The lyrics to Sissel's song, The Sleeping Princess, describe a princess who is under a magical sleeping spell that was placed upon her by a fairy. She is doomed to dream in haunted forests and sleeps eternally. The haunting melody and the lyrics create a sense of mystique and subtle tension. The repeated 'Hush! Hush!' creates a sense of caution and unease. The wood nymphs are having their merrymaking but do not disturb the princess. It's almost as if no one dares to disturb the spell and awaken the sleeping princess. The lyrics convey an enchanting but eerie tone that is quite captivating.
The overall theme of the song speaks to the idea of the price one pays for their actions. Many fairytales warn against being greedy or vengeful or disloyal, and the consequences are often severe. The sleeping princess teaches the lesson that the cost of vanity and self-centeredness is a life of enchantment, a sleep of death, and eternal dreaming.
Line by Line Meaning
Hush! Hush!
Be quiet and listen carefully
With lovely eyes
Her eyes are beautiful
Closed in sleep, the princess lies,
The princess is sleeping
By a fairy charm enchanted,
She's been put under a spell by a fairy
Doomed to dream in forests haunted:
The princess is under a spell that forces her to dream in scary forests
Hush! Hush!
Be quiet and listen carefully
Pale and wan, as dead she were,
She looks pale and sick
Sleeps the princess ever there.
The princess is always asleep
Hush! Hush!
Be quiet and listen carefully
Sudden on the silence breaking,
Suddenly, there is noise
Laughing, shouting, merrymaking,
There are happy noises like laughing and shouting
Thro' the gloom the woodnymphs sweep,
Wood nymphs fly around in the dark
Yet they do not break her sleep.
Even though there is noise, the princess does not wake up
Fast asleep the princess lies,
The princess is still sleeping
Wrapped in mystery her eyes,
Her eyes are hard to understand
By a fairy charm enchanted,
She's been put under a spell by a fairy
Doomed to dream in forests haunted!
The princess is under a spell that forces her to dream in scary forests
Hush! Hush!
Be quiet and listen carefully
Baleful charm and slumber fell:
The spell that the fairy put on her is horrible and makes her sleep forever
Will she wake?
No one knows if she'll ever wake up
Ah, none can tell!
No one can predict if she'll ever wake up or not
Hush! Hush!
Be quiet and listen carefully
Contributed by Jack F. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Brian
on Going Home
Where you have “yes” several times she’s really singing “just”. It’s her accent that makes it sound like “yes”.