Helena iren michaelsen biography for kids

Interview by Miriam Cadoni

Behind each song of Angel’s Helena Iren Michaelsen, there’s a literal piece of her wounded soul. However, it’s well-known that music is a therapy for both heart and soul, and the Norwegian artist use her compositions and lyrics as an escape from a world that it has always challenged her and made her suffer since her childhood and now, throughout the adulthood with the terrible event related to her daughter Angel. In the end what’s is disarming, it’s her fierceness, her absolute determination in believing in a better society and a better world. Let’s discover this amazing artist through her words and her two LPs “A Woman’s Diary – Chapter II” and “A Woman’s Diary – The Hidden Chapter” both released via Germany’s Massacre Records respectively in April and December 2020. Enjoy!

Hi Helena,

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Helena Iren Michaelsen

Norwegian singer

Musical artist

Helena Iren Michaelsen (born 2 June 1977) is a Norwegian singer. She is the frontwoman of the symphonic metal band Imperia and her solo project Angel. She was the lead singer of the gothic metal band Trail of Tears from 1997 to 2000, and was briefly the singer of Dutch symphonic metall band Sahara Dust (later renamed to Epica).

Career

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Trail of Tears (1997–2000)

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Michaelsen was born in Evje, and started off as the female vocalist in 1997 for Norwegian gothic metal band Trail of Tears, succeeding after Ales Vik who departed from the band that same year. Up until that year, the grupp had been called Natt. A year later, Michaelsen and the band recorded their debut skiva Disclosure in Red in which she sang contralto vocals and contributed to writing lyrics. In 2000, she again took role of contralto vocals in their second album Profoundemonium, which was their last album to feature Helena.

Soon after, she

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HELENA IREN MICHAELSEN (Angel, Imperia), “so I tried to call for help from whatever higher powers above, but made the experience that none of that was responded”

Angel is the solo planerat arbete of Helena Iren Michaelsen. She was the singer of Trail Of Tears and Sahara Dust, the band that becomes Epica, and now is a member of Imperia. This year she released like Angel the second album and in fact it’s titled “A Woman’s Diary – Chapter II” (here’s reviewed). The album is personal, honest and true as a diary should be. (versione italiana)

MH:Hello and welcome Helena, thank you for this chance to talk with you. First of all congratulations for “A Woman’s Diary – Chapter II”. Fifteen years have passed from “A Woman’s Diary – Chapter I”, it’s a long time and I suppose today Helena is no longer the same.
HIM: Well, I tend to think that much of me still is the same, but off course with all changes and experiences life puts us through, we also change as a person,