My new show: QUEEN OF SOUL - a tribute to Aretha Franklin!

It’s official! I’m so excited to announce my new, upcoming show, a tribute to one of my biggest inspirations, the one and only, the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin!!

She tops the Rolling Stone’s list of the world’s 200 best pop singers of the last 100 years. She has been awarded 20 Grammy awards, and has through 50 years been one of the biggest inspirations to generations of singers. By no coincidence was she given the name ‘Queen of Soul’, and few other artists deserve a tribute more than the fabulous Aretha Franklin!

I can humbly say that it is in deep respect and awe that I take this assignment on. Franklin has inspired me for as long as I can remember through a wide variation of genres within pop music. She has inspired me to do everything from soul, funk, R&B and gospel to pop. No matter what she recorded, she did it with such profoundness that it is impossible not to be moved.

Creating a tribute show for this remarkable artist has been on my wish list for years. Even if I never had a chance to see my inspiration live in concert, in a funny way our roads seem to have crossed throughout our lives. You will hear some of the stories where the universe has tied our souls together outside of space and time, and you will also learn a lot about the artists life and career.

In this show, I’m looking forward to singing some of Aretha Franklin’s biggest hit songs like ‘Respect’, ‘Think’ and ‘Natural Woman’. On stage, I will also invite local choirs to accompany me, and I can ensure you this will be a night to remember!

Tickets for the shows will be launched successively, and you are welcome to follow my events page to see if I am visiting a venue near you.

Welcome to a musical Queen-of-Soul party night!💃🏻🥳😃

With love,
Trine😊✨💫🎶

A slow year picking up

A slow year is finally picking up a little speed, and I’m beginning to feel more perky again. Feel like I’m coming out from the state of a zombie after suffering from a case of no energy, no inspiration and just dragging along for the ride.

To get back into shape, I have been working out three-four times a week, receiving various treatments to heal, keeping away from work, and tried to do things that I normally love to do. In between, I’ve had a few concerts here and there, but no touring in sequence. My batteries seem to finally be charging again, and I’m looking forward to getting back in the saddle.

Some of the treatments I’ve been receiving are from my go-to acupuncturist who also does homeopathic treatments as well as neuroreflexology. She is amazing!❤️🙏🏼 Also, I’ve been going to a physical therapist to try to loosen up some of the physical blockages in my body. He is also amazing! I’ve been seeing an incredible speech therapist who turned out to know all there is to know about the classical singing voice - and thus I’m in the middle of a very exciting and inspiring project in trying to accomplish vocal stretches I have never even dreamed of controlling!

Finally, I’ve done a lot of sailing. What a blessing to have introduced this hobby into my life! I have gotten so many wonderful, new friends in sailing, learned so much, and experienced more during these two seasons I’ve been a part of a sailing organization.

A very important part of my life now is my new furry friend, my puppy Chanti. If you have been following me, she is almost scaringly much alike my previous “heart”, Joy. I sometimes catch myself in calling her Joy, but her name is Chanti. Isn’t she just adorable?😍

Coming up now are a few concerts before we dive into another Christmas. For the first time in - I don’t know how many years - I’m NOT doing my own Christmas tour, Julegaven (The Gift of Christmas). However, I will be doing some concerts together with other choirs and bands that I’m much looking forward to.

Please check out my events calendar to see if I’m visiting a place near you: Trine Rein Concerts

I want to thank you all for your patience, and I really hope to see you out there soon again. I miss you!🙏🏼💕

With Love,

Trine🥰🎶🐾🍁🍂

Everything will Be OK🌈❤️🙏🏼

I’m sure you’ve seen the children’s many touching drawings of colorful rainbows with these positive words: “Everything will be ok”. During the pandemic, I kept seeing these pictures everywhere, in classrooms, on the streets, in stores, in kindergarten - everywhere!

I couldn’t help be being inspired by this positive message so filled with hope and belief for the future coming from our next generations. So I contacted my favorite team in Nashville, writer and producer David Thulin and lyricist Rhyan Shirley to see if we could come up with something on this theme. Introducing: Be OK!

Be OK single cover

Due to the pandemic still ruling our lives at the time, I was unable to actually go to Nashville for this one, and thus ‘Be OK’ was written via the Internet. As a greeting to all my followers from back in 2015 when I covered Florence and the Machine’s song ‘Spectrum’ on national TV show ‘Stjernekamp’ (The Ultimate Entertainer), I let myself be carried away by inspiration from the EDM genre. I’m not much of a dancer myself, but I hope this will inspire you to put on your dancing shoes.

On Friday, March 25 at 11:00am (GMT+1) I am also releasing my new lyric video to go along with the song, and you will be able to sing along with me - AND Sauda Soul Children who are helping me lift this song to the next level.

Here’s a link if you wanna catch the premiere on YouTube: Be OK

Although it may seem a little light to release a single called ‘Be OK’ in the midst of the world just coming out of a pandemic, facing an unfathomable war in Eastern Europe, and a seriously alarming climate report from the UN all at the same time, I believe a little light and hope is exactly what we need right now. Remember, we are allowed to sing, dance, smile, laugh and be free even just for a few minutes. No one will benefit from everyone going down mentally or physically due to the scenario we are facing these days.

I hope you will enjoy ‘Be OK’, and that it will be a ray of light in otherwise quite dark times here on earth🙏🏼

With love,

Trine❤️

JULEGAVEN is cancelled...😢

I’m so saddened to announce that as of Wednesday last week, my long anticipated annual Christmas tour, JULEGAVEN, had to be cancelled due to new restrictions and the increase of covid-19 cases in Norway. We managed to perform 24 of the planned 35 concerts, and fortunately, I got to meet all of the 9 different local choirs in at least one concert before we had to shut down.

It’s such a bummer knowing all the work, all the preparations and all the investments gone into this tour - not to mention all the anticipation - all being blown out the window at the snap of two fingers. A pandemic is no joke… Right now, I am grateful to be living in a welfare state where there is financial aid to people in my situation. It’s not ideal, but it helps us to keep our head above water - if only barely. I have received two shots of vaccines, expecting to receive a third booster shot in not too long to protect me from serious illness. We are certainly blessed in this country, and I am also glad to know Norway is one of the foremost countries in the world aiding third world countries in getting access to the vaccines.

Ås church

Julegaven 2021 with Trine Rein, Adrian Jørgensen and Siri’us.

I must admit it is increasingly difficult to find the motivation to build yet another tour, yet another concert, or yet another show in the midst of all the cancellations we’ve seen during the past almost two years of this pandemic. I used to have an inner drive, a dream about standing on a stage, singing for a huge audience with a back up band behind me. That dream, that picture, has faded noticeably lately, and the only thing keeping me going is my amazing audience cheering me on via my SoMe-platforms. Also, my much appreciated colleagues in the music- and entertainment business are “too-good-to-go”, so in one way or another, I am sure I will find a way to hang on for a while longer. Still - making a living from gathering people to concerts has proven to be impossible during the last almost two years, and I am seriously considering other means of making a living these days. Sad, but true.

Julegaven band and crew. From left: Adrian Jørgensen, Olav Torgeir Kopsland, Kenneth Bjørdal, Alexander Pettersen. From right: Bodvar Tornes, Ole-Martin Nestvold (MAF Norway),all Trine Rein, Hanne Hodne (MAF Norway)

Anyway, I don’t mean to get all dark right before Christmas, but these dark times are definitely taking a toll. On the upside, we are only days away from “the sun turning” as we say up here in the northern hemisphere, meaning the days will begin to grow longer and lighter. Coming out of the dark season is always uplifting, and interestingly enough, it happens almost simultaneously with the celebration of the birth of Christ (the Light) - every year. So, as I preach during my Julegaven Christmas concerts, everything will be OK in the end.

Enclosed is my favorite quote from the Bible to remind me of this:

Joshua 1, 9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

Wishing you all a healthy, happy and very merry Christmas!🎊💫🎄🌟🎶❤️

With love,
Trine❤️😊