Meet Christina Sandsengen

We recently connected with Christina Sandsengen and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Christina, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Music has been a big factor for me, and has been what has kept me alive and going. When growing up, and especially in my early years, there was so much chaos and pain around me. I was in what most people will call ”unhealthy environments”. I had to adopt quickly to home situations, people, places, and different hard situations. I was also born a highly sensitive child, so everything could have had a totally different outcome if it wasn’t for my dad. He turned his life around 180 degrees in order to give me a good life, and my life today is all thanks to him with his unconditional love and support, and the fact that he taught me to never give up, work hard and that “nothing is impossible”.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I am a classical guitar artist and composer from Norway, based in Los Angeles. I tour a lot playing solo classical guitar concerts, and I compose and record. I have a huge passion for classical guitar, and it has been my anchor through life. On my latest record Solace I focus on mental health and I wanted to make a raw, honest portrait of that feeling of trembling, tumbling—when something almost mythical takes hold of your chest, so you are hardly able to breathe. But when I was a girl, I discovered that my guitar can breathe for me, that it can make a language beneath language, for a resonance that travels from fingertip right to the bone.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Persistance, discipline and passion.

Who has been most helpful in helping you overcome challenges or build and develop the essential skills, qualities or knowledge you needed to be successful?
My teacher in classical guitar Martin Haug, my mentor in composition Leo Brouwer and my forever beloved dad Kristian.

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