Small Time Giants

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Small Time Giants
Origin Qaqortoq, Greenland
GenresAlternative rock
Years active2011-present
MembersMiki Jensen
Pilutannguaq Hammeken
Jakob Skovaa
Jonas Lundsgaard Nilsson
Website www.smalltimegiants.com

Small Time Giants is an alternative rock band from Greenland. [1] Besides Greenland, the band is popular in Denmark where it has developed great following with their mainly English-language songs. Their EP Six Shades of Heart was released in February 2012 and their debut studio album Stethoscope was released on DIGIDI, the digital distribution network in October 2014. In 2015, the band won the contest for the official song of the Arctic Winter Games, which was held in Nuuk, Greenland in 2016. [2] The song, entitled "We Are the Arctic", was formally released in October 2015.

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The band released the Christmas-themed single "Angerlarlanga" on December 12, 2016. The song reached No. 1 on the Danish iTunes chart that month. [3]

Members

The band is made up of young musicians from Qaqortoq in South Greenland. But the band's newest member, drummer Jonas Nilsson, is from North Jutland. The members are:

Discography

Albums

YearAlbumPeak positionsCertification
DEN
[4]
2014Stethoscope39
2020Formed by Mistakes

EPs

Album

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References

  1. GreenlandicPopularMusic: Small Time Giants (in Danish)
  2. "Small Time Giants bag AWG2016's kendingsmelodi".
  3. "Small Time Giants brager ind på iTunes-hitliste med ny single". knr.gl.
  4. "danishcharts.dk Small Time Giants discography page". danishcharts.dk.