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
Weightless
Sissel Lyrics
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I have been waiting
Wondering what I will do
All I can feel
Is my heart beating
Time and time again for you
I am weightless
And I don't know why but I know
Its all right
All I can hear
Is my own breathing
Echo in my loneliness
If I could sleep
I would be dreaming
Of the sweetness of your kiss
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I don't know why but I know
Its all right
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I'm so high, I'm with my angel tonight
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I don't know why but I know
Its so right
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I'm so high, I'm with my angel tonight
Sissel's song Weightless is a romantic ballad that captures the feeling of falling in love. The first verse describes the longing and anticipation that the singer has felt throughout her life, wondering what she will do and who she will fall in love with. The second verse speaks to the sense of isolation and loneliness she feels without the person she loves, hearing only her own breathing echoing back. She yearns to be able to sleep and dream of the "sweetness of [their] kiss."
The chorus emphasizes the feeling of weightlessness that comes with falling in love, as if the singer is floating and weightless. She doesn't understand why she feels this way, but she knows that it's all right. The final repetition of the chorus adds the imagery of being so high that she is with her angel tonight, suggesting that her love has elevated her to a higher state of being. This song speaks to the sheer joy and elation that comes with falling in love, and the sense of being weightless and free.
Line by Line Meaning
All of my life
I have been waiting
Wondering what I will do
Throughout my entire existence, I have been yearning for something, uncertain of my purpose.
All I can feel
Is my heart beating
Time and time again for you
My heart incessantly aches for you, the one who captivates my emotions.
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I don't know why but I know
Its all right
The sensation of falling in love makes me feel light and carefree, although I don't understand how or why.
All I can hear
Is my own breathing
Echo in my loneliness
In my solitude, my breathing is the only sound I can hear - a reminder of my loneliness.
If I could sleep
I would be dreaming
Of the sweetness of your kiss
If only I could rest, I'd be dreaming of your lips and the euphoria that comes with your touch.
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I don't know why but I know
Its all right
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I'm so high, I'm with my angel tonight
The feeling of love overpowers me so much that I am weightless, and I am certain it's alright. I'm so consumed by it that I feel I'm in heaven with you right now.
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I don't know why but I know
Its so right
And I'm weightless, falling in love
I am weightless
And I'm so high, I'm with my angel tonight
I am falling deeper into the sensation of love, and it just feels so right. It's elevating me to the point where I feel like I'm spending my time with my guardian angel.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: ROB HYMAN, DAVID FORMAN, RICK CHERTOFF, GARY LUCAS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Shirley São Paulo
| Tradução da Música
Leve
Toda a minha vida
Eu tenho esperado
Imaginando saber o que vou fazer
Tudo que eu posso sentir
É meu coração batendo
Vez e outra vez por você
E eu estou leve, me apaixonando
Estou leve
E eu não sei por quê eu sei
Está tudo bem
Tudo o que posso ouvir
É minha própria respiração
Eco na minha solidão
Se eu pudesse dormir
Gostaria de estar sonhando
Da doçura dos seus beijos
E eu estou leve, me apaixonando
Estou leve
E eu não sei por quê eu sei
Está tudo bem
E eu estou leve, me apaixonando
Estou leve
E estou tão alto, estou com meu anjo esta noite
E eu estou leve, me apaixonando
Estou leve
E eu não sei por quê eu sei
Está tudo bem
E eu estou leve, me apaixonando
Estou leve
E estou tão alto, estou com meu anjo esta noite
Druid
When I found this song, I couldn't believe my ears. How could I have passed this up? Her voice, there is something in her voice, but what is it? Love? Her spirit flows through everyone she is in the room with, amazing. Certainly someone else sees what I see.
Gary Bolhofner
I see it every time I watch and listen to her sing. Truly a gift to humanity. Should get the Nobel prize.
Karin Andersen
I see it💞🥰❤😇
Danny Brineman
An appropriate description of this great singer and lady as apparent from her facial expressions. Her voice moves from octave to actave like a silk scarf in the wind. There may someday a voice as good as Sissel's but there will never be one to top it! Rod Brineman
Русский хохол
Сказочно красивое выступление.Завораживает.
Александр Дьяконов
Самый очаровательный и прекрасный голос всей северной Европы!!!
Mustafa Er
Wow, what a voice, what a performance!! Couldn't stop listening to this song the whole day. It's soooo magical and angelic. What a pity I haven't discovered this wonderful voice before. Simply fantastic
Deborah W. Setiyawati
agree...
chen yang
Mustafa Er gree with you
Scott Johnson
This is not the audio of that performance, this is the album version. Listen to the album version and then listen to this one, they are the same.