Marie Carmen Koppel with pianist Steen Rasmussen

An extraordinary experience – One of Denmark’s Greatest Voices

For the past 25 years, Marie Carmen Koppel has built a large and loyal concert audience. With her powerful voice, she fills churches, venues, and cultural centers across Denmark with intensity, presence, and musicality of international standard.

From Helle Hellstern’s review in POV International:

“This is how you deliver a concert of high-class original songs and a unique vocal range, seasoned with well-known soul, gospel, and reggae classics, while still managing to stay grounded and entertain a diverse audience with humorous anecdotes from a long and impressive career.”

“I find myself thinking several times that the Danish people are lucky. Lucky because Marie Carmen Koppel returned to Denmark after two formative years in the USA, where nerves and self-doubt had to be kept at bay and her ...

Marie Carmen Koppel with pianist Steen Rasmussen

An extraordinary experience – One of Denmark’s Greatest Voices

For the past 25 years, Marie Carmen Koppel has built a large and loyal concert audience. With her powerful voice, she fills churches, venues, and cultural centers across Denmark with intensity, presence, and musicality of international standard.

From Helle Hellstern’s review in POV International:

“This is how you deliver a concert of high-class original songs and a unique vocal range, seasoned with well-known soul, gospel, and reggae classics, while still managing to stay grounded and entertain a diverse audience with humorous anecdotes from a long and impressive career.”

“I find myself thinking several times that the Danish people are lucky. Lucky because Marie Carmen Koppel returned to Denmark after two formative years in the USA, where nerves and self-doubt had to be kept at bay and her talent was allowed to grow. Lucky that we have musicians of such international caliber in this country, and lucky to witness her talent and journey, which she shares with great authenticity.”

She has established herself in Danish music as Denmark’s Queen of Soul, with a voice often compared to that of Whitney Houston—who is also Marie Carmen’s declared idol.

Marie Carmen Koppel’s repertoire spans widely, from soul and gospel to jazz, which also holds a special place in her heart. She performs her own songs as well as interpretations of her favorite classics, all drawn from her long career and 10 solo albums.

Marie Carmen Koppel is currently promoting her highly acclaimed memoir, Mit glitrende kludetæppe (“My Glittering Patchwork Quilt”), which was published in January by People's....

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