Linda Andrews (born October 19, 1973 in Tórshavn), is a Faroese singer who won the second season of the Danish version of The X Factor, and became the first faroese winner of it.
She was born and raised in Torshavn. She has a nine-year-old daughter, Celeste, with whom she lives in Valby. It was Celeste who got her mother to join the X Factor, and she eventually auditioned in Copenhagen, Denmark. Linda had recently divorced her husband of seven years, and she wanted to prove to her daughter that she could easily stand on her own two feet. She comes from a large family in the Faroe Islands and has 4 older siblings. Prior to her rise to fame on X Factor, Andrews made her solo album debut in 2008 with Revelation, a gospel album, and prior to that, she released stray recordings such as “Hot Santa,” a Christmas-themed novelty single from 2006.
Throughout the series, she was mentored by Lina Rafn of Infernal. In the final, she sang “So What” by Pink and a new song written by Søren Rasted of Aqua and Hej Matematik.
After winning the X Factor, she was offered a major-label recording contract with Sony Music. Andrews made her major-label debut with “Det Bedste Til Sidst” written by Søren Rasted of the Danish pop band Aqua. The song was released in April 2009, just after Andrews had debuted the song on the season finale of X Factor (along with “So What” by P!nk). A couple months after releasing “Det Bedste Til Sidst,” Andrews made her full-length album debut with Into the Light (2009), primarily of English-language. It peaked at number two on the Danish albums chart and had two singles “Into the Light” and “Mirror Mirror”. |
