Thea Hjelmeland

In a little village, inside one of Norway's deep fjords, the young Thea Hjelmeland was raised in a family where music was present before she even could walk. As far as she knows she has always been singing, and as the years passed by she picked up instrument after instrument. One day she found an old mandolin at home. As her father collected instruments and filled the house with treasures, this was not an unusual occasion. But this mandolin was from Sicily in Italy, and it was 115 years old.