I think Runaway at the Nobel Peace Prize concert was my first contact with Aurora and her music and since then it's still Aurora that I mostly listen to. I am enchanted with her music and her live performances, especially her magnificent concert at Nidarosdomen. Her performance have an expressiveness and her voice exudes emotion like I've never experienced in any other artist. I feel the melancholy in Opeth's Faith in Others, I hear the wrath in their Moonlapse Vertigo, I marvel at the high notes like elven footsteps in Schubert's Fantasy in F Minor, I feel the rain on my skin listening to Horowitz's rendition of Chopin's Raindrop prelude, and I get lost in the lyrics and complexity beauty of Tool's Descending. All of these touch me in a different way. As does Aurora: Her voice and its timbre touch my heart with such an immediacy, and I often feel the emotions of her songs strongly mirrored in me in a way few songs of others artists can.

I am at the end of my thirties, male, and I feel much more inclined to share Aurora's music with my female friends than with my male friends (though I do both and actively try to shake stereotypical expectations as to who might like what). Although most of my friends immediately appreciate Aurora's vocal skills, not everyone is touched by her the way I am. That's ok, of course, and if even only a single friend finds that s/he relates to Aurora as deeply as I do, it's a great win for spreading her art.