Walking In The Air
"Then I at least I will be able to sing my favorite Christmas song"
January 2013.
Believe me! You want to read this...
27th of November 2015. The Norwegian newspaper "Avisa Nordland" announced that Aurora was to play at "Parkenfestivalen", along with a summary of Auroras career so far. In this article it comes for a day that Aurora was contacted by Made Management after they found her interpretation of a Christmas song on Soundcloud (^3.1).
Further on... In her local newspaper "Bergens Tidende" the 2nd of December 2014, she talks about her upcoming Christmas concert in Johannes-church the 12th and 13th of December. She said then: "Then I at least I will be able to sing my favorite Christmas song, 'Walking In The Air' - I love the sad Christmas carols." (^3.2)
I can unfortunately not be 100 percent certain of this, as I have never heard of this elsewhere. Still I am quite sure that the song she made a cover of, and uploaded to Soundcloud in January 2013 was in fact "Walking In The Air". I have heard her claim this song to be the most beautiful song of them all in Christmas, on some interviews found on YouTube (Sorry, don't remember which...).
At the same period of time, when Aurora had a radiohit going with "Puppet", a friend of hers uploaded "I Had A Dream" to YouTube and Soundcloud. Both song showing her as talented as both a singer and a songwriter... (See those stories for sources)
This means that prior to her discovery, Made Management had three songs on the table before making contact with Aurora and her family.
The version presented above is from December 2014 (^3.3)
Which again leads us to the next song in line: "Awakening" - But first we need to explore some of the unreleased songs preceding this release that gave flames to the sparks she had ignited.
I know!
There was released a cover version of this song in 2019 - But that's another story... 😊
Sources:
3.1 - Parkenfestivalen, Avisa Nordland
https://www.an.no/parkenfestivalen/parken/sondre-justad-og-aurora-returnerer-til-parken/s/5-4-215502
3.2 - Bergens Tidende, Stjerneveien kostes for stortalentet fra Os
https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/9b935/stjerneveien-kostes-for-stortalentet-fra-os
3.3 - Walking In The Air on YouTube
Aurora Aksnes - Walking in the air