Biography:

• Born in Denmark, SIGNE (rhymes with Xena…) is a Canadian singer/song-writer, pianist, guitarist, producer and arranger currently based in the UK.

• Delivering catchy alt & pop rock with accents of soul, SIGNE’s vocal has been compared to Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant and Dido.

• Finalizing in five high profile Canadian and U.S. song-writing contests got her signed to Montreal based TGO Records as frontwoman of band Minervah. Several of her original songs were aired nationally on TV and commercial radio. Minervah was backed with distribution by SPG/Universal Music Canada.

• Described as “even better live”, SIGNE has played hundreds of shows, including the CMT stage at the Calgary Stampede, and the Cavern in Liverpool.

• SIGNE is an experienced freelance commercial session singer, and her voice has been featured in dozens of pop, rock, dance, country, folk and adult contemporary projects.

SIGNE has an impressive past in the music industry, and she is looking ahead to a promising future. Danish born, Scotland-based, but still adamantly Canadian, SIGNE is broadening her musical horizons with a foray into arranging and producing her original material.

She is also breaking new ground by collaborating with song-writers and producers in Sweden and Denmark, and some of the genres she’s writing for – including country, and dance - are well outside her usual alt-rock style.

SIGNE got her start as front-woman of Calgary duo MINERVAH, a partnership with song-writer and producer Martin Cepicka, who released the album Everybody’s Naked in 2001 with TGO Records. Distributed by SPG/Universal Music, several singles from the album were aired on radio and TV all across Canada. Single Insatiable, originally penned by SIGNE, continued to air on Canadian commercial radio for seven years.

SIGNE has been a strong song-writer from the beginning. While she started composing instrumental songs on the piano at the age of ten, Sell My Soul was among the first lyrical songs she wrote, and it grabbed media and label attention for MINERVAH as it finalized in five high profile song-writing contests and was aired on CJAY 92 FM in Calgary. But her vocal is what caused A&R from BMG to write that they were "taken aback". Mike Bell, a top Canadian music editor, described SIGNE's voice as "buoyantly beautiful". She captivates live audiences with her raw talent and shy charisma.

Parting with MINERVAH and TGO Records in 2005, SIGNE found a new start with Montreal producer Arijit “Jit” Bhattacharya. She released her debut solo EP Se-na in 2006, and several singles from the album went on to receive airplay on radio stations in Montreal, Canada and New York City. The EP received several great reviews and was the Featured Album of the Month on PiK (Party in Kingston.com) for January 2007. As recently as in March 2011, one song from the EP – The Last Standing – was selected as the featured song Global TV’s Women of Vision Awards in Calgary, Canada.

SIGNE has just released her new single "What Have You Done To Me",
and it has been featured in Sound On Sound magazine's Mix Rescue (July 2011). Mike Senior, of Cambridge Music Technology, brilliantly mixed and provided additional production for the song. A gorgeous video has also been released with the single, and it is produced completely by Naomi McDonald, an up-and-coming Australian videographer.