《Should it Matter》

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Should it Matter 是Sissel Kyrkjebo 《All Good Things》 專輯裏的第3首。作為Sissel的粉絲，聆聽她的歌是種心靈的陶醉，她那天籟般的嗓音餘音撩繞般的在你耳邊響起，觸及你心靈的一個角落，微微的隨之顫抖，Should it Matter 是這樣的一首歌，就是時間是塊橡皮，慢慢地擦去了愛與恨的角角落落，但在心靈深處的某個地方，一種痛還是時隱時現。想找到這首歌創作的背景，沒有成功，也許並沒有什麽特定的背景故事造就了這首歌，但人類普遍而又痛心的情感在這首歌裏被浸透得濕漉漉的。

原唱Sissel Kyrkjebø簡介

Sissel Kyrkjebø, born 24 June 1969 in Bergen, also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano.

Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias. She possesses a "crystalline" voice and wide vocal range, sweeping down from mezzo-soprano notes to the F natural above soprano C. She sings mainly in English and Norwegian, but has also sung songs in Swedish, Danish, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian, Icelandic, Faeroese, German, Neapolitan, Māori, Japanese and Latin.

Sissel's combined solo record sales (not including soundtracks and other albums to which she contributed) amount to 10 million albums sold, most of them in Norway, a country with 4.7 million people. Her albums have also sold well in Sweden, Denmark and Japan.

1986–1994: Rise to prominence in Norway

When Sissel was nine, she sang in a children's choir, under New Zealand-born conductor Felicity Laurence. Sissel stayed with the choir for seven years. She said, "That was my musical education. We sang everything ヽlassical and jazz, folk and even Maori songs. People said we sounded like an angel choir because we had this very clean pure sound, almost like an English boys’ choir." Sissel won her first local talent competition when she was ten. Sissel sang solo on TV several times in 1984. She also appeared in several TV programs, and met Rune Larsen, who later became her first manager.

In May 1986, her first album, Sissel, was released and sold more than 400,000 copies, making it the best selling album in Norway at that time.

In 1987, her Christmas album Glade Jul was released. It contained several traditional Christmas carols and it broke her previous record for best-selling album in Norway. This album still holds the record. Upon its release, it sold more than 600,000 copies in a country with a population of less than five million: to date, it has sold approximately a million copies.

In the fall of 1988, Sissel moved to Oslo for a short period to play the role of Maria von Trapp in the Norwegian version of The Sound of Music. This production set box office records.

In 1989, she released her third album, Soria Moria, and on a Swedish TV-concert taped in Göteborg she met the man whom she would later marry, Danish comedian and singer Eddie Skoller. They had two daughters, Ingrid and Sarah, before they divorced in 2004.

In February 1994, Sissel performed during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. During the Olympics, legendary Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo visited Norway, where he came across one of her earlier albums. He contacted Sissel and the next day they recorded Fire In Your Heart, an English version of Se ilden lyse, the official theme song of the Lillehammer Olympics. Domingo invited Sissel, along with world-renowned French singer Charles Aznavour, to partake in his annual Christmas in Vienna concert later that year. The concert was broadcast around the world and released as an album internationally.

1995–2001: Climb to international recognition

In 1995, Sissel was invited to perform at the annual Royal Variety Show in London. There she performed the renowned aria O Mio Babbino Caro from the opera Gianni Schicchi. In 1997, Sissel toured the USA with the Irish group The Chieftains. Later that summer Sissel was involved in recording the soundtrack to the film Titanic. The soundtrack reached #1 on the Billboard charts and sold more than 24 million copies worldwide. James Horner, the composer of the film#s music, had tried 25 or 30 singers before deciding on Sissel.

Sissel had a #1 hit across Europe in 1998 with Prince Igor, a duet with an American rapper Warren G on the concept album The Rapsody Overture which combined American rappers with European opera singers. In November 2000, Sissel released (in Norway only) her solo album, All Good Things, which was her first solo album in nearly seven years. Following high sales, the album was released throughout Europe and Asia the following year.

In December 2000, she was invited to represent Norway at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, where she sang "One Day" and "Weightless", both songs from All Good Things.

In 2000, Sissel also released a greatest hits collection in Japan that included two new songs from the Japanese TV show Summer Snow, one of which was the show's theme song. Sissel is enormously popular in Japan and has released several Japanese versions of her albums there.

2002 to present: Global stardom

On October 1, 2002, Sissel released her first album in the USA: it sold over 100,000 copies in its first three months of release with almost no advertising or marketing.

In December 2002, Sissel was again invited to represent Norway at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, for which she sang "Somewhere over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz and "The Prayer" in a duet with Josh Groban.

Sissel released her second USA album, My Heart, in March 2004. It was a classical crossover album and included two pop songs written by Richard Marx and one ballad, "Wait a While", written by Jon Lord of Deep Purple. "My Heart" reached #3 on the Billboard Classical Album Chart after debuting at #7 and spent 31 weeks on the chart.

Sissel received her first U.S. Grammy nominations on December 6, 2007 for a collaboration with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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Sissel has celebrated more than 20 years in the music industry with the release of a greatest hits album presenting 40 of her best and most well-known songs.

Sissel 的歌唱業績在繼續，太多了也太長了，隻得打住.