CV Jørgensen

Carsten Valentin (CV) Jørgensen (born 9th of May 1950, in Lyngby) is a Danish singer and songwriter. Between The name Valentine is not lawfully recognized in Denmark.

C.V. Jørgensen has a creative style with numerous metaphors who lifted him level from pop singer to poet who enjoys recognition among writers and poets. The keynote of his texts are a melancholy fervor that often borders on direct alarmism, biting social satire or short fables about human destinies.

C.V. Jørgensen got the two album releases in relative obscurity his breakthrough with the folk rock LP: Storbyens små oaser (1977), where his satirical texts are about Danish allotment idyll and the academic intelligentsia.

The style was continued throughout the 1980s, when Jorgensen's texts were clear opposition to the yuppie and bourgeois political domination. In 1980 he recorded the album Tidens Tern together with the US-Danish guitarist Billy Cross' Delta Cross Band. Although the album's song Costa del Sol that is a satire of rich Danish retired flight to tax havens at the Spanish coast. Cross and Jorgensen, shortly after they finished it, break up their collaboration.

In January 2006, Tidens Tern was selected to be part of the Culture Ministry's cultural canon in category of popular music.

In the 1990s C.V. Jørgensen shifted to a radical style of the album Sjælland (1994), which mixed pop sound with floating, free jazz-inspired brass. The musical focus was moved from a standard rock format to a more free style with an emphasis on atmosphere. Texts shifted from the wordy, narrative style to tight feeling images. A style that he continued eight years later in his album Fraklip fra det fjerne(2002).

C.V. Jørgensen has in his career worked with a number of Danish rock music profiles, including Ivan Horn, Tim Christensen, Aske Jacoby, Sanne Salomonsen, Gert Smedegaard, Niels Henriksen. In late summer 2009 turned CV Jørgensen for the first time in seven years back to the stage, with three concerts in Århus Festival.