By Mark Savage Published 6 January 2019 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics Sound of 2018 Pop star Sigrid topped the BBC’s Sound of 2018 last January on the basis of a solitary four-track EP and a small, if spectacular, set at Glastonbury. The announcement caught the 22-year-old off guard. “I just want to swear a lot, but I know I can’t do that on the BBC so I’m trying to hold it in,” she said, confessing that she’d never expected the prize to go to a Norwegian performer. Sigrid wins the BBC Sound of 2018 Since then, the singer has scored her first top 10 hit with Strangers, sold out London’s Brixton Academy, met her first kangaroo and discovered that Helen Mirren was a fan. “She said she liked my music. Apparently she had listened to me before,” the star said after meeting the actress on The Graham Norton Show. “She is very, very cool”. Despite a hectic touring schedule, Sigrid also managed to finish her debut album – Sucker Punch – which is due out in March. She can’t tell us anything about it, though, not even the titles of the new songs her… Read full this story
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