There's a handful of upcoming Danish artists that I believe deserves much more attention than they get at the moment. Viktoria definitely is one of the them! How I learned about her and her brilliant music in the first place, was due to her obvious Freya/Sparkler-connection.

In 2004 she released her most underestimated album at EMI, Switch, produced Kåre Kabel Mai and mixed by Rune Westberg, who also played guitar on the album. Peter Kjøbsted played the bass, - all three are former Sparkler band members. So you may say that on Switch we hear Sparkler with Freya replaced by Viktoria. So that's the reason why I bought the album without even knowing it in advance!

I was really surprised by the quality of the songs, the singer, and especially the production. Kåre did an extremelt fine job here. Except for the title track, which is slightly overproduced, the sound and the songs on the album are outstanding for a Danish standard. I contacted Victoria and her record company to get more information of this unknown talent, and ever since I've waited for an opportunity to hear her live on stage!
This chance appeared on 14. December 2005 where I was invited by Viktoria to a showcase she did for two men from the music business in GB and an entusiastic audience at the small cafée on Blågårds Plads.

We got some rough and nice versions of six of the songs from the album and two unrecorded songs, On His Way and Dreamed Of This Love.
Viktoria did the job like an experienced stage performer, and her pop/rock songs were strong and appealing even in rocking live versions.

We have one more Danish artist facing a great future if she manage to sign a record company working professionally enough to understand that excellent quality music is not enough, - you need a good deal of branding to make it nowadays. Viktoria deserves to succed in that.

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