in 2018.
2014: From ''Norway's Got Talent to My Christmas'' After Jordan's performances of two Billie Holiday songs, "Gloomy Sunday" and "
I'm a Fool to Want You", on ''Norway's Got Talent
, as well as "Fly Me to the Moon" on a TV talk show, all went viral online in March 2014, she was featured in Time, Daily Mirror, People'', and other news outlets around the world. She continued in the competition singing
Nancy Sinatra's version of "
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" live in the semi-finals, and won with her performance of George Gershwin's "
Summertime", in the style of
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's 1958 recording of the song. In September 2014, she performed "Fly Me to the Moon" on the US television show
The View, bringing her wider fame in the United States. She also performed on several
TV 2 programs in Norway over the next few years, including multiple appearances on
Allsang på Grensen (
Singalong at the Border, referring to the border fortress of
Fredriksten where outdoor concerts are held) and on
TV4 in Sweden. Jordan had a small guest role in the final episode of the
Netflix series
Lilyhammer, playing a girl who sings in a bar. In December 2014, she partly realized a personal ambition of singing at the
Nobel Peace Prize Concert by performing for
Peace Prize recipients
Malala Yousafzai and
Kailash Satyarthi at the Save the Children's Peace Prize Celebration. Jordan's recording debut, the three-song maxi-single
My Christmas, was released in December 2014. To support the release, Jordan performed the songs on multiple TV shows, including an appearance on Christmas Day.
2015–2019: YouTube channels, The EP, ''It's Magic'' In 2015, Jordan began recording music that would eventually be collected on the six-song
Angelina Jordan – The EP, released on 27 November 2017. Many of the tracks were posted to her official YouTube channel well in advance of the EP release, in the form of music videos and lyric videos. These included her covers of
Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You", the music video for which was directed by
Per Heimly, and
Amy Winehouse's "
Back to Black", in which Jordan sang her own original lyrics. These two music videos became the most popular videos on her official YouTube channel, surpassing 5 million views each by 2020. In 2017, she created a second YouTube channel specifically to present performances of
cover songs. In November 2015, Jordan published the book
Mellom to hjerter (
Between Two Hearts), which was illustrated by her grandmother, Iranian artist Mery Zamani. The book tells the story of her meeting a poor motherless girl in the Middle East who has no shoes. After a long conversation in which they discuss their dreams in life, she gives the girl her shoes and the girl promises to pray for Jordan to fulfill her dream to become a successful singer. According to Jordan the book is based on a real incident that happened when she was six, which she cites as the reason for always performing barefoot. In April 2016, Jordan performed "Fly Me to the Moon" on the first season of the noncompetitive children's talent show
Little Big Shots. A year later she performed "
What a Difference a Day Makes" on the
UK version of the show. She also performed "I Put a Spell on You" on the German edition of the show,
Little Big Stars, in 2017. In December 2016, she performed on
Alan Walker is Heading Home, a live concert broadcast from Bergen, Norway, where she sang Walker's songs "
Sing Me to Sleep" and "
Faded". On 15 June 2018, a full album of recordings with
Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces (Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps), called ''It's Magic'', was released. The next day, Jordan and the band performed the full album live in a concert attended by Norway's Prime Minister. On 27 June 2018, Jordan performed "Fly Me to the Moon" for
Quincy Jones in
The O2 Arena in London, as part of his 85th birthday celebration, and also joined with other singers to perform "
Man in the Mirror" to close the show.
2019–2023: ''America's Got Talent'', "Bohemian Rhapsody", Republic Records In 2019, Jordan performed for former president
Barack Obama and other public figures at the Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm. In October 2019, she competed in the second season of ''
America's Got Talent: The Champions'', which was aired in January and February 2020. Her first appearance on the show, singing an original arrangement of
Queen's "
Bohemian Rhapsody", received a "golden buzzer" from judge
Heidi Klum (meaning that Jordan would pass directly into the finals). A video of Jordan's performance began to go viral on YouTube. The performance also garnered praise from Queen's official Twitter account. Jordan later released a studio version of the same arrangement under her own copyright. Jordan's second performance (in the finals), a similarly reworked "
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" based largely on a version by
Sara Bareilles, was also well received, but she was not among the top 5 acts. In August 2020, Jordan's manager (her uncle), announced that she had signed with
Republic Records. The track was produced by the Norwegian duo
Stargate, who also co-wrote the song with Jordan. She has since released two additional music videos for the song: one showing her singing the song "live" in a recording studio, the other an "official music video" featuring her younger sister. In June 2022, after a two-year hiatus brought on by the worldwide
COVID-19 pandemic, Jordan resumed singing in front of live audiences with an appearance in the first episode of the final season of
Allsang på Grensen. In February 2023, Jordan together with a Moroccan-Swedish record producer
Red One, performed 2022 FIFA anthem titled "We Are the Best" in front of a worldwide audience at the
Best FIFA Football Awards 2022. In July, her first EP of all originals songs,
Old Enough, was released, and in December her Christmas EP
Driving Home for Christmas with five cover songs.
2024-2025: Collaboration with Toby Gad, going independent In May 2024, Jordan announced a collaboration with
Toby Gad. They published several cover songs and their co-written original song "Bad Valentine" on Gad's own
Kite Records label. In Sept 2024, Angelina performed her first concert in Los Angeles at the Alex Theater, where she performed "Bad Valentine" and previewed two more original songs, "Thank You" and "What Am I to You". In addition, Angelina performed a duet of "All of Me" with Scott Hoying of
Pentatonix, accompanied by Toby Gad on piano. Angelina finished up 2024 with a Christmas Concert at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles. In 2025, Jordan again became an independent artist. She published two albums with original songs, with lyrics based on her grandmother's poems. ==Personal life==