Sometimes creativity can only properly thrive in exile, at a necessary distance from the familiar. So it has proved for Tina Dico, a 30 year old singer songwriter who left the safe and sociable world of her native Denmark seven years ago, and upped sticks for a city where she knew nobody and nobody knew her: London.Based in a flat in London's Ladbroke Grove neighborhood, Dico has lived alone. She has walked a lot and in the process written a pile of songs that have filled her previous four remarkab   [ read more ]

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Filled with an emotional intensity (and complexity) that's both raw and moving, Tina Dico's sensitive voice sounds more vibrant than ever on her latest release, as she delivers her introspective songs with shimmering power and grace. ?Music has always been a very big and mysterious part of my life,? she explains. ?It's definitely my way to feel alive. It feels like you can take the whole world and bring it into your body. It's fair to say that I found my calling.? And with her own label, four studio albums   [ read more ]

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Danish singer/songwriter Tina Dico (born Dickow) is now based in London. She flirted with major-label success in Europe, but after a music biz implosion left her with no deal, she borrowed money and started her own logo. She's won numerous prizes in Denmark, including a 2002 Steppeulv (the Danish music critics award) for Composer of the Year, a 2002 Danish Music Aw   [ read more ]

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Unless you're Danish, Far is probably your first extended listen to Tina Dico. The singer and songwriter's early work made an impression in her home country, but it wasn't until she took the position of Designated Hazy Sexy Vocalist on Zero 7's 2004 effort [ read more ]

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Singers who grow up in countries that are known for long, dark, cold winters don't necessarily provide an abundance of melancholy music. ABBA, after all, came out of Sweden -- and they wrote the book on fun, frivolous, sugary Europop and became the blueprint for countless other Scandinavian (and German and Dutch) party groups. But it is safe to say that melancholy (or    [ read more ]

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