AURORA - [S2] A DIFFERENT KIND OF HUMAN - STEP 2

Aurora Aksnes (born June 15, 1996), known mononymously as AURORA, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and record producer. AURORA began writing music and lyrics at a young age, eventually releasing her debut single, Awakening, at the age of 17 in late 2013. Her second single Under Stars was released in late 2014. The singer signed with American record label Glassnote and UK-based Decca for her debut EP, Running With The Wolves, which arrived in the first half of 2015. The EP was highly rated mainly in Norway, and won the award for Best New Artist at the Spellemannprisen, which is known as the "Norwegian Grammy". In the same year, she was selected as one of the performers at the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert. She then gained further attention after covering Half The World Away by Oasis for the 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert, before following up with her debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend, in 2016. The album charted in several Western European countries, topping the charts in Norway and reaching the Top 30 in the United Kingdom, as well as the Billboard 200 in the United States. The work was praised by several musical media. Next, AURORA embarked on her first world tour: "All My Demons Tour". In 2018, the singer surprise-released the first chapter of her second album, Infections Of A Different Kind – Step 1. Recorded mainly in the suburbs of France, the album expands the scope of the music with 32 choirs. The singer integrated more realistic themes, including politics and sexuality. This took her back into Norway's Top 10, peaking at number #7. To promote the album, AURORA released "ONCE AURORA", her first full-documentary, produced by Flimmer Film and directed by Benjamin Langeland and Stian Servoss. The TV version premiered on NRK, Norwegian national TV, on December 9, 2018. The film version toured the film festival circuit in 2019-2020 and on March 21, 2020 it was officially released worldwide. The film received the awards for Best Editing and Best Cinematography at the 2019 edition of Gullruten, an TV and cinema award in Norway, and Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama. Stepping away from her solo work, AURORA entered the studio with the duo The Chemical Brothers, contributing to their ninth album, No Geography[ /album] (which have won a Grammy), released in April 2019. The second chapter of her second album, A Different Kind Of Human – Step 2, was released in June of that same year. Regarding the relationship between the two works, AURORA said: "The first chapter is a work about how to defend yourself, because the most important thing is to defend yourself. Only then can you do this with your friends, family and yourself. You can help even people you don't know. If you love yourself and learn to help, you can be invincible. Chapter 2 is realizing how you can help the world. worried about me. Describes the entire process of becoming a warrior of love." The singer was responsible for the cover of "Baby Mine" used in the trailer for the live action version of "Dumbo", by Disney. And then, in the Disney full-lenght "Frozen 2" released in 2019, she made an appearance in the work as a "mysterious voice" and was featured in the song Into the Unknown. At the 92nd Academy Awards held the following year, she performed with Elsa from 10 countries around the world, including Idina Menzel. In the full-lenght "Wolfwalkers" by the animation studio Cartoon Saloon, whose produced films were nominated for an Oscar, AURORA re-recorded the song Running With The Wolves for the movie. Throughout the second half of 2021, AURORA released singles to promote her third studio album and had a highlight in the singer's single Sub Urban, PARAMOUR. With ancient Greek mythology as its theme, the album The Gods We Can Touch was released via Glassnote and Decca in January 2022. It was produced by singer and longtime collaborator Magnus Skylstad, who also co-wrote many of the songs. The album was the singer's first top 10 on the UK album chart, second top 1 in Norway and her first album to chart on the French albums chart. The singer won the International Sucess Of The Year award on the 2021 edition of Spellemannprisen, and also won the P3 Gull, the main prize of the night at the Norwegian award of the same name. AURORA embarked on her extensive The Gods We Can Touch Tour in March 2022, with opening acts: Metteson, Sub Urban, Thea Wang, Sei Selina, Blusher and Hannah Storm. Throughout the first half of 2022, during her tour, AURORA surprise-released the singles The Woman I Am, The Devil Is Human and [ track artist=AURORA]A Potion For Love, the first two of which were previously only included on vinyl versione of the album and the last one on the vinyl of the song Cure For Me. On Saturday, August 13, 2022, AURORA performed as headliner of Øyafestivalen, Norway's biggest music festival. Her show was seen by an audience of approximately 20 thousand people, being the biggest show of the tour. The British magazine NME acclaimed the singer's show and rated it 100/100: "AURORA shines at the fest of the future". Other projects included Storm, a collaboration with Taiwanese singer Wu Qing Feng, released in June 2022. September saw the release of the song Hunting Shadows for the video game's 15th anniversary Assassin's Creed. In October, the soundtrack for the BBC documentary series "Frozen Planet II" was released, which AURORA contributed with her vocals for 21 tracks. Several songs from AURORA's discography were featured in a season of the video game Sky: Children of the Light. Its season ended with a interactive virtual concert, which was released as a soundtrack: Sky: Concert in the Light. In 2023, the singer was featured in Butterflies, a song by Tom Odell, in BRING BACK THE COLOR, a remix of her unreleased track The Sun by San Holo, and in My Sails Are Set for the Netflix series One Piece. She was also one of the artists featured on a tribute album to Nick Drake with her cover of Pink Moon. There were several hints in 2022-2023 that AURORA had started working on a new album. The singles Your Blood, The Conflict Of The Mind and Some Type Of Skin, as well as their music videos, were released in November 2023, January 2024 and March 2024, respectively. AURORA went on a Norway club tour in March 2024, with support act by Amalie Holt Kleive. On March 28, she announced her upcoming fourth studio album What Happened To The Heart?, which will be released on June 7, and the Europe tour in September-October. 2) Aurora is the alias of Italian electronic music producer duo Gino Cavazzana and Paolo Reverdy. The duo put out two releases, the eponymous Aurora EP (1994) and the A.M. EP (1995) on Subway Records, an Italian progressive electronic music label, before vanishing in 1995 and focusing on other projects. 3) Aurora (known as Aurora UK in the USA) are English trance/dance producers, Sacha Collisson and Simon Greenaway, who have collaborated with guest vocalists Naimee Coleman, Lizzy Pattinson, Marcella Detroit and James Khari. On top of their trance and dance hits, they released an album of acoustic songs, such as the radio hit ‘Dreaming’, in 2002. 2006 sees Aurora’s return with a dance cover of the Texas single ‘Summer Son’. 4) Aurora is a Danish melodic death metal band. They formed in 1994 and released 4 albums and 1 EP from 1998 to 2002. 5) Auróra was founded in Gyor, Hungary, by young local punks, Vigi (guitar/vocals), Galacs (bass), Polyak (drums) and Dauer (vocals) in 1983. 6) Aurora was the first Latvian indie rock band, formed by Ritvars Dižkačs in 1987. Aurora’s most famous hits were ‘Barjera’ and ‘Sadauzītais Bundzinieks’. 7 Aurora is a Russian screamo band formed out of the ashes of another Russian band prospect. They’ve released two demos — the first one in 2009 and the second one in 2010. 8) Aurora (formerly known as Xio) is a singer/songwriter/actress. Aurora, born as Xiomara Medina in San Juan, Puerto Rico, founded Medination Music LLC, her own independent record label. Under this label, she released two albums, Temperatures of My Life and So Alive. Aurora has released numerous singles, including her latest, Heaven/Cielo. ‘Heaven’ was the #1 Added & Spincrease single for the week of November 1st on New Music Weekly, putting her on the ‘Up & Coming’ artist list as well. This club and radio banger was written by Aurora and produced by Tony Caluccio. Aurora directed and edited the video for her song ‘Ve’, which was the official selection of the 2013 Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico. 9) Aurora is a female reggae singer from Finland. 10) Aurora is an Albanian act who Is most known for their song ‘Lele kaqurele’. 11) Aurora is a Swedish avant-garde metal/emo band who have currently recorded three EPs. 12) Aurora is a Polish new wave group formed in 1987 who have disbanded and reunited twice. 13) Aurora is a now-defunct four-piece indie/alternative band from Seattle, Washington. They have produced one album, Aurora. 14) Aurora was a 5-piece jazz band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2006. Their debut album Aurora was released in 2009 on Calibrated/VME. 15) Aurora is an Italian RAC band from Verona formed in 1998. 16) AURORA was a visual kei band from 1999 to 2004, consisting of kaila (vocals), HIDEpi (guitar), Shinobu (guitar), Muramasa (bass), and Shion (drums). 17) Aurora was the previous name of German darkwave act Aurora Sutra. 18)Aurora was a jazz rock/fusion band from Texas, United States. During their short existence (1976-80), they never released an official album. The two founders of Aurora were violinist Mark Menikos and guitarist Skip SoRelle. Menikos' mentors are Jean-Luc Ponty and Stéphane Grapelli, whereas SoRelle draws his influence from jazz legends John Coltrane, Chick Corea and Larry Coryell. Bassist Roy Vogt, keyboardist John Sharp and drummer Martin McCall were eventually added to the roster. Their eponymous CD, released in 1999, is a mixture of studio recordings and live gigs. The album also features live material taped during a 1977 radio broadcast in Dallas. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.