--- title: Norways Got Talent Little Girl Sings Gloomy Sunday Like Billie Holiday description: Seriously, chills canonical: https://time.com/18173/this-7-year-olds-incredible-voice-will-give-you-chills-as-she-channels-billie-holiday/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-10T15:59:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:37.602Z og:title: This 7-Year Old's Incredible Voice Will Give You Chills og:description: How can one little girl have so much soul? og:url: https://time.com/18173/this-7-year-olds-incredible-voice-will-give-you-chills-as-she-channels-billie-holiday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This 7-Year Old's Incredible Voice Will Give You Chills twitter:description: How can one little girl have so much soul? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This 7-Year Old's Incredible Voice Will Give You Chills as She Channels Billie Holiday by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2014 3:59 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2014 3:59 PM UTC A 7-year-old girl managed to absolutely wow the judges on a televised talent show with her spot-on rendition of Billy Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday.” The youngster, Angelina Jordan, appeared on the stage of “Norway’s Got Talent”, barefoot and in a white dress, and announced that she would be be singing Holiday’s dark jazz standard. The skeptical judges were blown away from the moment she started singing. “It was completely fantastic,” one judge said of Jordan’s performance, according to YouTube’s English subtitles. “You sing fantastic and I got goosebumps from the very beginning,” echoed another. The audience agreed, giving the upstart a well-deserved standing ovation. Despite her youth, Jordan has had singing lessons for four years and, although English is not her first language, she says she “understood the song very well.” **MORE**: [ICYMI: Three-Year-Old Explains Why She’s Donating Her Hair to Charity in the Cutest Way](http://time.com/16246/icymi-three-year-old-explains-why-shes-donating-her-hair-to-charity-in-the-cutest-way/) **MORE**: [WATCH: These Dance Moves May Get You Death Threats in Kurdistan](http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/kurdistan-helly-luv-risk-it-all/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/18173/this-7-year-olds-incredible-voice-will-give-you-chills-as-she-channels-billie-holiday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/18173/this-7-year-olds-incredible-voice-will-give-you-chills-as-she-channels-billie-holiday/"},"headline":"This 7-Year Old's Incredible Voice Will Give You Chills as She Channels Billie Holiday","datePublished":"2014-03-10T15:59:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:37.602Z","description":"Seriously, chills","url":"https://time.com/18173/this-7-year-olds-incredible-voice-will-give-you-chills-as-she-channels-billie-holiday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","video","Viral video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/18173/this-7-year-olds-incredible-voice-will-give-you-chills-as-she-channels-billie-holiday/","name":"This 7-Year Old's Incredible Voice Will Give You Chills as She Channels Billie Holiday"}}]}] ```