ABOUT

Synje Norland is a singer, songwriter, theater composer, and podcaster.

Her journey as a professional musician began in 2008 with the release of her debut album Skipping Stones. In 2011, her second album To The Other Side followed — once again produced together with Flensburg-based producer Benito Battiston and released on her own label, Norland Music.

In recognition of her artistic work, GEMA nominated her in 2011 for the German Music Authors’ Award in the “Young Talent” category.

Praised by critics, Synje Norland’s songs have been featured in the soundtrack of the TV series Mord mit Aussicht (“Homicide Hills”) as well as in films such as Liebe Mauer (“Beloved Berlin Wall”) and the ZDF two-part drama Das Geheimnis der Wale (“The Secret of the Whales”). This exposure brought her wider attention beyond Germany’s borders.

In 2011, Synje Norland performed at Indie Week in Toronto, and in 2013 at the NXNE Festival, also held in Toronto. She joined Icelandic artist Helgi Jonsson on his Germany tour and appeared as a guest vocalist with the band Santiano in 2012 and 2013.

In 2016, supported by the “Initiative Musik,” Synje Norland released her third studio album Who Says I Can’t. The multi-instrumentalist produced the entire record independently, performing all instruments herself except for the prominently featured cello.

After a subsequent tour in autumn 2016 — which she performed while heavily pregnant — Synje Norland took a musical break to focus fully on her family.

In 2020, she reappeared with a series of virtual living-room concerts performed together with artist Julie Weißbach. The following year, the two launched their podcast Wahrhaftig und Vehement (“Truthful and Vehement”). 

In 2022, Synje Norland co-wrote the song Wie es zerbricht (“As It Breaks”) with Danish artist Frederik Vedersø, which premiered at the opening concerts of the Folk Baltica Festival. Following another invitation from the festival, she began working on her musical adaptations of poems by Theodor Storm.

In parallel, in 2024 Synje Norland composed the music for the Storm-inspired play Heimkehr – oder die letzte Sirene (“Homecoming – or The Last Siren”), which premiered at the Hoftheater Föhr. In this production, she not only served as composer and musical director but also made her debut as an actress.