Signe Tollefsen

Signe Tollefsen (1981(?)) is a US-Dutch singer-songwriter, settled in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her music has been described as European Country-contemporary Folk, Dreamfolk and Folk Noir.  Biography Growing up in Utrecht, the Netherlands, as the child of an American father and a Dutch mother, Signe Tollefsen started to sing at the age of 7, and compose her first songs on guitar at the age of 14, inspired by artists such as Janis Joplin, Ani DiFranco, and Paul Simon. At 15, she moved to the UK to finish high school and study classical singing at the Royal Northern College of Music. She eventually gave up classical song, for studies in philosophy at the University of Hull, when she started singing her own songs in public.She moved back to the Netherlands to take classes at the Amsterdam Conservatory with René van Barneveld ('Tres Manos', the Urban Dance Squad). In 2005, she played with Stephen Malkmus ('S.M.', Pavement) in Italy and Germany. She toured the UK, where she played at the BBC, and in December 2006 she won the audience prize and the prize for best musician at the Grolsch Grote Prijs van Nederland in the category singer/songwriter, thus qualifying to record a promotion single and to be seen on well-known stages. A debut album is expected as of 2007.