Eivør, Sylvaine

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Edwina Hay

Eivør on stage

Eivør

A native of the Faroe Islands (in the north Atlantic Ocean), Eivør began performing solo and with various bands as a teenager in the 1990s. Since then she has built a prolific and wide-ranging catalog of music in several languages, and also collaborated on video game scores (like God of War with Bear McCreary). Eivør’s latest album, ENN, blends her stunning vocals with folk and electronica to powerful effect. With Sylvaine. Many of the stops on this tour are already sold out, so waiting on tickets is not advised.

media release: She's serenaded crowds from the UEFA Champions League to The Game Awards, but on her latest album, Eivør reached several new milestones. The Faroe Islands superstar performed songs off ENN to sold-out crowds from Red Rocks to Hellfest. 

Now, to kick off 2025 ahead of her upcoming North American tour, Eivør is proud to announce that she has been named a winner of the 29th USA Songwriting Competition. Her gently pulsating first single from ENN, "Jarðartrá / Dust to Dust", won the award for Best World music.    

"I am thrilled and honored for our song 'Jarðartrá (Dust To Dust)' to have won the USA Songwriting Competition in the 'World Music' category", Eivør says.    

"The track is a joint effort between myself and the Faroes poet Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs - my long-time lyrical collaborator and dear friend.

I'm grateful to my dear Tróndur Bogason for co-production and arrangements on this track and to my band mates Mikael, Per, Mattias and Theodor for generously pouring your beautiful creativity into each note and each beat".

We are grateful and truly honoured to receive this prestigious award. Thank you."

“Jarðartrá” was an especially fitting first single for ENN. Just like the extreme contrasts that define life at her home in the Faroe Islands, the song is dark yet glistening, swirling but propulsive. Eivør inhabits the perspective of a wounded mother earth, who calls to us with a steadily thumping bassline that’s as dark and warm as our planet’s molten core. “Come lie down in my blue embrace”, she sings, reaching into her operatic register, as if beckoning us toward the light.     

"When I wrote this song, I envisioned the earth in its rawest elements: oceans, volcanoes, storms, soil”,  Eivør remembers. “We all have echoes of these elements within us, but maybe we tend to forget that we are part of nature and its endless circle of decay and growth”.

"Her performance is, as expected, flat out spellbinding" The Line of Best Fit said about Eivør during this year's G! Festival.

Hear Eivør perform the award-winning “Jarðartrá” and other songs from her world-renowned, 25-year discography next month when she tours North America with Sylvaine. Their shows in Toronto and San Francisco are already sold out. Tickets for Seattle, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montreal and Silver Springs are all moving fast.  

More praise for Eivør

"Famed for her beautiful voice and amazing control, the Faroese singer of quite some renown drags you into an almost reverie and bliss" - Ghost Cult

"Simply put, it sounds absolutely stunning throughout the entirety of Eivør's set, her falsetto tones soar, the building's acoustic grandeur bolstering the ethereal beauty of the spellbinding performance" - Noizze

"Eivør is a creative force" - Oregon Music News

Praise for Sylvaine  

"The crowd headbanged and reflected Sylvaine's intensity back to them, enthralled in their presence and atmosphere" - Nine Circles

"The beauty is always present, but when that turbulence hits, it hits hard" - Angry Metal Guy

"It only takes a matter of seconds for this Nordic songbird to melt your heart and lull you into a trance with her siren song" - New Noise