Nive Nielsen

ARTIST: Nive Nielsen

COUNTRY: Greenland

GENRE: Alternative / Folk / Indie

DESCRIPTION: Alternative singer/songwriter, snow songs, ukulele-wielding Eskimo tunes about coffee, and ghosts, and bugs… and ghost-bugs? Ice-folk?

MORE ABOUT: My name is Nive. I ‘m an Inuk, a real eskimo from Greenland. Seriously. I play music, mostly on my little red ukelele and with some help from my friends. I like that. You can hear some of my songs on this page. Also there..s an EP on iTunes. But most importantly (drumroll…) I just finished recording my first album, yay oh yay!! The record is called “Nive Sings!” Cause well, I love singing, see. And playing. Oh and cowboy boots. And walking in the snow. I ‘m scared of ghosts. And bugs. And ghost bugs as well. So I sing about them. About coffee also, and boys. And naughty reindeer. Amongst others. Hmm… I ..m now looking for a nice lovely label. If anyone knows anything… Grin :) What else… living pretty much all over the place these days. Back home up North, and traveling all around to play. It’s awesome. And a little scary, too. Cause of the bugs, see. The ghosts have been alright, so far. Yup. Anywayssss… Hope you like my little songs! Lemme know?

Some info about my record “nive sings!”: I ‘ve been asked quite some times now who ’s playing on my songs (besides me and Cowboy Jan that is) and since my record ..s now finished I figured I oughta give some loud shouts and thank yous to all the amazing people who..ve helped. Here goes… “Nive Sings!” was recorded in Montreal, Bristol, San Francisco, Ghent, Tucson and also our attic in Nuuk. On it there..s good folks like John Parish, Alain Auger, Mr. Howe Gelb, thee amazing Ralph Carney, Matt Bauer, my pals Lisa Gamble (do check out gambletron and evangelista), Giselle Webber and Alden Penner (clues! rules), Eric Craven (from ao Hangedup and GY!BE), Mr. Patrick C (the Black Keys), and Arlen T (wolf parade). The inimitable Mister Eric Matthews helped a great lot also. Love you guys!

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:

- “Nive Sings! ” (2009)

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more videos here

SELECTED PRESS REVIEWS:

“If you have ever wondered how an ukulele-wielding Eskimo singing about coffee and ghost bugs and vacuum cleaner killers sounds, then Nive Nielsen is your woman. With a sound that blends in her heritage nicely into melodious tunes, Nive is making music that will have you instantly falling heads over heels about Nive Nielsen.” (Junior’s Cave)

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