On her sophomore album ‘Wearing My Heart On My Sleeve’, Danish artist Katrine Schmidt transforms grief, love, longing and life’s paradoxes into a body of work infused in equal measure with hope and helplessness.
The songs unfold within an organic soundscape, drawing clear lines to the American singer songwriter and jazz traditions, with traces of early Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Billy Joel. The album was written over a three year period in which she first lost her father after a sudden illness and later experienced one of life’s great miracles, becoming a mother for the first time.
About Katrine Schmidt
Katrine Schmidt (b. 1991) grew up in Skive, Denmark in a family where music played a central role and began playing the piano as a child. She attended MGK, Denmark’s pre conservatoire music programme for young talents, in Skive, went on to study at the conservatoire in Aalborg, and continues to live in Aalborg.
In 2023, she received the Danish Music Awards ‘Ud Af Det Blå’ award (Out Of The Blue-award) for her debut album ‘Laying My Burdens Down’. Shortly afterwards, she appeared on Good Morning Denmark, Denmark’s national morning television show, performing the song ‘Fight On’, which addresses her father’s cancer journey and serves as a declaration of love to him.
