"You must have written this song for me!" After a Nina Mikaelsen concert, one from the audience comes up to the stage with wet cheeks and shares. Nina's stage presence is fun and welcoming. Whether she is styring puppets for a kids program or singing for the crown prince on national TV, Nina has the ability to concentrate her whole being in one place and deliver a message as if it is the most fragile and precious truths. This is the beauty of Ninas music.
Authentic, warm, challenging. The lyrics are not a mystery to solve. It tells a story straight from the authors heart. They are stories harvested from her every day life, carrying messages that pierce the heart of the listeners. The songs pause the bustling rhythms of life for a moment long enough to give listeners a chance to take a deep breath and reflect on the important questions in life and calibrate their hearts.
Ninas ambition to vocal performance has marked her life going back to when she was a tape-recorder-wielding-toddler.
In 2001, her voice was noticed by Swedish producer Wilbe and song writer Pieber. They went into a creative collaboration over the following years resulting in a digital EP and a YouTube debut under the name Nina Tesaker. In 2005, Nina suddenly and profoundly fell in love with Japan and moved to a little creative pearl of a town called Iwaki in Fukushima prefecture. Here she found her song-writing style inspired by situations and people she met as she helped to manage a creative cafe. She performed in many local gatherings- at cafes, pubs, live houses and many a living room. Ninas voice inspired concerts to be arranged beyond Fukushima, such as in Osaka, Tokyo, as well as in Europe.
On March 11, 2011 the news from Japan about the terrible tsunami disaster compelled Nina to join the charity concert "Gift to Japan" nationally broadcasted on a Norwegian TV channel. In the few months that followed, Nina yet again left her home country and joined the tsunami recovery efforts, lending a ear, serving coffee, and of course singing her heartfelt songs of encouragement to the survivors recovering from trauma. On Christmas-eve 2013, she appeared on a Japanese prime-time TV singing competition "Nodojiman-the-world" broadcasted nationally in Japan.