SIGNE has an impressive past in the music industry, and she is looking ahead to a promising future. Danish born, Scotland-based, but still adamantly Canadian, SIGNE is broadening her musical horizons with a foray into arranging and producing her original material.
Mike Senior of Cambridge Music Technology mixed and provided additional recording and production on What Have You Done To Me, and the song is featured in Sound On Sound magazine’s July 2011 edition.
Naomi McDonald, an Edinburgh photographer and videographer, produced and directed an eye-catching music video for What Have You Done To Me, and the cover for the single is a snapshot from the opening scene.
SIGNE got her start as front-woman of Calgary duo MINERVAH, a partnership with song-writer and producer Martin Cepicka, who released the album Everybody’s Naked in 2001 with TGO Records. Distributed by SPG/Universal Music, several singles from the album were aired on radio and TV all across Canada. Single Insatiable, originally penned by SIGNE, continued to air on Canadian commercial radio for seven years.
SIGNE has been a strong song-writer from the beginning. While she started composing instrumental songs on the piano at the age of ten, Sell My Soul was among the first lyrical songs she wrote, and it grabbed media and label attention for MINERVAH as it finalized in five high profile song-writing contests. But her vocal is what caused A&R from BMG to write that they were "taken aback". Mike Bell, a top Canadian music editor, described SIGNE's voice as "buoyantly beautiful". She captivates live audiences with her raw talent and shy charisma.
Parting with MINERVAH and TGO Records in 2005, SIGNE found a new start with Montreal producer Arijit “Jit” Bhattacharya. She released her debut solo EP Se-na in 2006, and several singles from the album went on to receive airplay on radio stations in Montreal, Canada and New York City. The EP received several great reviews and was the Featured Album of the Month on PiK (Party in Kingston.com) for January 2007. As recently as in March 2011, one song from the EP – The Last Standing – was selected as the featured song Global TV’s Women of Vision Awards in Calgary, Canada.
SIGNE will be releasing singles from her upcoming album “Total Internal Reflection”, set to be released in early 2012.
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