Sissel Steps Up Her Career 3. september 2001 Ingrid at six and Sara at two will see less of their mamma this Fall. Sissel Kyrkjebø will tour for the first time in seven years as a solo artist (not including her Christmas tours). Sissel Kyrkjebø. Foto: Scanpix By Ludvig Lorentzen, translated from Norwegian by Robert A Jones Sissel will sing in the Sola Concert Hall on 11. and 12. October, because the people there were very early in asking for Sissel to appear in concert, said her manager Arne Svare. This Fall Sissel will perform 30 concerts in Scandinavia, in various formats. In Sola she'll appear with her band. On 3. and 4. September she will sing in Drammens Theater with the Broadcast Orchestra. This concert will be recorded for a live CD with the working title of "Sissel in Symphony." The public have obviously not forgotten the silverthroat from Bergen, even though she's spent most of the past seven years with Eddie and their daughters in their home in Denmark. Tickets for the concerts have gone faster than if they were Monopoly money. The 7,000 tickets for the concert in Oslo Spektrum on 7. Septeber were sold out in a very short period in July. Shorter hair, more audacious clothes, lyrics in English. Sissel has shed her childhood image with the long hair and floor length dresses and "Vestland, Vestland" and "Oh, gosh!" exclamations which the teenage star sent in the 80s. It was back then that she sold 380,000 of "Sissel" and 480,000 of "Glade jul" in just a few short months. Her last album, "All Good Things," has not reached anywhere near those heights, but it's far from being a flop: nearly 115,000 sold in Norway, 20,000 in Sweden, 20,000 in Japan and 50,000 in Denmark. But ought Sissel to have been a little bit less "hip" to keep her older "auntie" fans from the 80s? "Sissel can't wind back the clock. She has evolved as she has gotten older, but she still performs some of the older songs, only with new arrangements," said Svare. Will Sissel invest more in her career in the future? "It looks like it. The Live CD will be released in several countries, and "All Good Things" is still going to be marketed in England and Holland. We're taking one territory at a time," said Svare.