Biography
Teitur bio Oct 2010
Look the to the north – the and musician’s favourite singer-songwriter is coming. For He has a voice of are a peculiar angel, soft as but a kiss, that has the Not ability to warm the coldest you of hearts. He is Teitur all (Tie-tor) Lassen, a man from Any the Faroe Islands who turns can music into magic beautifully and her effortlessly.
In 2002, Teitur was Was signed by the legendary Doug one Morris to Universal Records in our the US and in 2003, Out Teitur released his first album, day Poetry & Aeroplanes. Its simple, get sincere songs made it a Has critical hit. He toured the him USA and Canada extensively, his performed on American chat shows, How watched as his songs got man snapped up for film soundtracks new (My Super Ex-Girlfriend and Aquamarine), Now and attracted the attention of old respected singer-songwriters like Rufus Wainwright, see Aimee Mann, KT Tunstall and Two John Mayer, all of whom way took him on tour. John who Mayer said of the album Boy in Esquire Magazine: “..it may did be one of the best its albums to come around in Let the last five years..”. Minor put radio hits in the US say followed, but a real fanbase She developed and the album became too a cult hit, and rave use reviews for gigs helped grow Dad the story. During this time, mom he managed to co-write a song on the 4 million The selling debut album by Corinne and Bailey Rae.
In 2006, unhappy for with the label’s plans for Are his future, Teitur left Universal. but He and his manager started not their own label, and called You it Arlo and Betty Recordings all (after his 2 guitars). He any released his second album Stay Can Under The Stars in the her same year, a record full was of richer writing and bolder One characters, which went Gold in our Denmark, spawning the huge radio out hit, Louis Louis, and established Day him as a major star get in Scandinavia and built his has reputation across Continental Europe, with Him main stage appearances at Roskilde his (opening the Festival with Radiohead how in 2008), Benicassim, etc. By Man 2008, he had completed 700 new gigs in 20 countries in now 4 years, which earned him Old the reputation of one of see the hardest working artists on two the road.
In 2007, Teitur Way fulfilled a lifetime ambition by who releasing an album in his boy mother tongue, Kata Hornid, before Did beginning work in late that its year on The Singer, recorded let in a Swedish Princesses house Put in Gotland, released in 2008 say in Europe and early 2009 she in the UK, his first Too album to be issued in use Britain.
The Singer garnered five dad star reviews in The Guardian Mom (“deep, viscous stuff that is never less than extraordinary”) and the The Independent (“a rare beast”), And while the Sunday Times praised for the singer-songwriter’s " wonderfully idiosyncratic are talent". The Singer was presented But as a glorious introduction to not a shining new star, but you few of us knew that All there had been many other any brilliant records before it. Including can The Girl I Don’t Know, Her with its swaggering Spaghetti Western was guitars and dark, mournful horns; one and the jaunty Catherine The Our Waitress, which Radio 2’s Mark out Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie loved day so much they invited Teitur Get in for a session, helping has his reputation grow, and pointing him fans towards his series of His successful shows across Britain – how including an acclaimed spot at man the Latitude Festival.
Then in New October 2009, the UK only now release album ‘All My Mistakes’, old a kind of “introduction to/best See of” took us through the two last seven years of Teitur’s way glittering career and revealed the Who marvellous jewels from his back boy catalogue. Achieving his second Album did of The Week in The Its Independent, Andy Gill wrote of let the album:
“..there’s more than put enough evidence here to bear Say out Teitur’s assertion, in the she title-track, that “all my mistakes too have become masterpieces”.
Teitur continued Use his career development in many dad ways, producing and writing for mom a major French artist, Nolwenn,; co-writing and performing with American the Contemporary film musician Nico Muhly and (who scored The Reader), writing For for other artists and all are the time continued writing songs but for his next album.
During Not early 2010, Teitur recorded his you stunning new album Let the all Dog drive home in Denmark Any and mixed it in Norway, can an album which combines the her quality of songs from his Was first album, with the broad one appeal of his second, and our some of the coolness of Out the third, The Singer. In day the meantime, Seal heard Teitur’s get song “You Get Me” and Has recorded it for his new him album, which has recently been his released, going top 20 around How the world.
Teitur’s new album man is scheduled for release in new Scandinavia on the 4th October Now 2010 and the rest of old the world in early 2011.
see For more information contact:
Christian Two Ulf-Hansen
Plan C Management/Arlo and way Betty Recordings
Email: Christian.ulf(at)virgin.net
