Dania is a young Faroese singer, songwriter and poet who loves to express herself in her mother tongue, Faroese.
Dania O. Tausen is a young interdisciplinary artist on Faroese music and poet’s scene. A singer, songwriter and a poet who expresses himself in his own way with the Faroese language. Growing up in the small town of Toftir she performed mostly in church at the start, but in 2018 she got some attention singing at the Ella Fitzgerald tribute concert, one of her first concerts outside of church. Shortly after she began to release her own music and moved to Tórshavn to study Creative Writing. She currently performs regularly with the solo project Dania O. Tausen, the jazz trio SWAY and the hip-hop group Aggrasopar. In her daily life, Dania also works for the record label Tutl, is a radio host on the cultural show Samværi, and is a concert and poetry readings organiser in Tórshavn andoftir. Dania was especially discussed in the Faroe Islands, when her poetry collection Skál and the documentary about the book were released. The poems and the film were controversial because Dania pointed out how it is growing up in a rural congregation and what it is like to be young and doubting. Dania’s albums, “gonguteigatúnatos” (2021) and “ja/nei – og restin av vikuni” (2023), focus mainly on the complicated yet very simple inner life of a human being. She manages to see the humor in our daily routines and uses a very informal language, showing her respect to the changing Faroese language, while going into complex yet very common emotions that everyone can relate to. As the G! Festival said: “If you haven’t heard of Dania O. Tausen, you’ve been living under a rock. No one has been more busy than this hard working woman from Toftir.” Dania also won an FMA for Album of the year in 2023 and has been nominated for several awards since she appeared on the Faroese Music Scene in 2019.
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Dania O. Tausen - Worklist
| Title | Artist | Year | Publisher | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony of Storms (EP) | Reality Bytes | 2019 | Tutl Records | HJF541 |
| æðrasoppar (digital album) | æðrasoppar | 2020 | Tutl Records | HJF645 |
| gonguteigatúnatos (CD/LP) | Dania O. Tausen | 2021 | Tutl Records | HJF551 |
| ja/nei – og restin av vikuni (CD/LP) | Dania O. Tausen | 2023 | Tutl Records | HJF641 |
| døgurðaslang / MIDNÁTTARSANG (LP) | AGGRASOPPAR | 2023 | Tutl Records | HJF645 |
| Tornarunnir tankar, Buksurnar á (singles) | Tórshavnar Big Band | 2023 | Tutl Records | HJF633h HJF633c |
| kanst tú fylgja mær? (single) | Dania O. Tausen | 2024 | Tutl Records | HJF641g |
