Oh Land

Before an injury put an end to her dancing career, Nanna Øland Fabricius studied with the Royal Swedish Ballet as a teenager. Permanently sidelined by a fractured disc in her spine, she turned her focus to music instead. Fabricius had been raised in the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark by a particularly musical set of parents -- her mother sang opera and her father composed classical music -- but she took a different approach to her own songwriting, which drew heavily from dance-pop, R&B, and a year's worth of tutelage at the University of Electronic Composition. Now operating...