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ELIN – A ROCK CHICK IN HER TEENAGE YEARS<\/h3>\n

Elin listened to a lot of music in her first teenage years, mostly rock music, but she fell head over heels in love with one particular band – the Uriah Heep, and became a huge fan of them. She especially admired the brain behind many of Uriah Heep’s compositons – Ken Hensley, who’s solo-album she enjoyed just as much.<\/p>\n

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As a small curiosity: Little did she know that many years later, she would get to meet her idol, Ken Hensley, in her home town, T\u00f3rshavn, where she had the opportunity to tell him, how much his music had meant to her. She was so grateful to be able to thank him for his music.<\/p>\n

Here Elin is with her idol, Ken Hensley, in the bar Glitnir in T\u00f3rshavn in 2012:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Back in the early seventies Elin could just sit for hours enjoying listening to Uriah Heep records, often together with her best friend, Maria, who shared similar taste in music.<\/p>\n

They also listened and head-banged a lot to albums by Deep Purple, the Doors, Black Sabbath, Steppenwolf, Free, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Andrew LLoyd Webber’s musical Jesus Christ Superstar (the one starring Ian Gillian as Jesus), and other albums.<\/p>\n

FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE<\/h3>\n

Elin’s first real public appearance on stage as a singer was when she was 16 years old in a play at the theatre in T\u00f3rshavn, Faroe Islands, where she sang a Faroese version of the song \u201cStreets of London\u201d by Ralph McTell translated or rewritten by herself at only 15 years old. The Faroese lyrics that she wrote became very popular. People would copy the lyrics on stencil paper and sing them at parties. The song has been recorded with her lyrics by various other Faroese bands a couple of times since then.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo from Elin\u2019s very first public performance in the old theatre in T\u00f3rshavn, Sj\u00f3nleikarh\u00fasi\u00f0, in 1974:<\/em><\/p>\n

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RADIO ENTERTAINER<\/h3>\n

After this performance she was asked to participate in a live radio entertainment show called \u201cV4\u201d in the Faroese public radio. She became well known by the Faroese public these years, because she toured the Faroe Islands with the other performers on the radio show and was heard singing on the radio many Saturday evenings in the wintertime for almost three years. It\u2019s worth to mention that there was no TV on the Faroe Islands these years \u2013 not until 1983 \u2013 so everybody listened to the radio.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo from one of the V4 performances:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here is a two-part broadcast series that T\u00f3r\u00f0ur Johannesarson made about the singer Elin. T\u00f3r\u00f0ur says this about the broadcasts:<\/p>\n

“In two parts\u00a0 we hear Elin Brimheim Heinesen sing some satirical ballads and other folk songs. Elin Brimheim Heinesen has been around many music genres, from jazz to pop. In these shows, the focus is mostly on the satirical ballads that she sang when she was very prominent in the 70s in the Faroese entertainment radio program V4”.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the first part, Elin talks about how she became part of the V4 entertainment programs (in Faroese):<\/span>
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