{"id":85964,"date":"2026-09-18T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85964"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:00:30","slug":"how-astrid-jorgensens-pub-choir-shows-anyone-can-sing-no-auditions-no-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85964","title":{"rendered":"How Astrid Jorgensen\u2019s Pub Choir shows anyone can sing. No auditions, no judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/18\/a69c95ba-1c40-4846-82d1-3ac093f35e49_5f7385c7.jpg?itok=RJMyRnXi&amp;v=1789716921\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">As someone who started playing the piano at age two and later trained in violin and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">singing<\/span>, Astrid Jorgensen has always had a close relationship with music. Still, something felt off.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019ve always been a really musical person looking for that outlet of music and creativity, but I didn\u2019t really find it,\u201d says the 36-year-old vocalist and conductor.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, to a Singaporean-Chinese mother and a father of European descent, Jorgensen emigrated to Australia as a child, settling in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Later, while studying for her arts degree at the University of Queensland, she specialised in aural musicianship and choral conducting in an attempt to make sense of why making music still \u201cdidn\u2019t feel good\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3367966\/how-astrid-jorgensens-pub-choir-shows-anyone-can-sing-no-auditions-no-judgment?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who started playing the piano at age two and later trained in violin and singing, Astrid Jorgensen has always had a close relationship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[30230,17227,30232,30231,19037,7718,5679,153],"class_list":["post-85964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-astrid","tag-auditions","tag-choir","tag-jorgensens","tag-judgment","tag-pub","tag-shows","tag-sing","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}