Gospel brings people together across boundaries

Gospel brings people together across boundaries

Lotte Nielsen has been singing gospel for 7 years and is still just as enthusiastic. For her, gospel singing expresses love for other people and for life itself.

"It's absolutely wonderful. I get completely filled up singing Gospel," she states, highlighting the camaraderie with the other singers as yet another of the many factors that make gospel singing a breath of fresh air for her.

The fact that gospel brings people together across social divides also helps to make the weekly rehearsal day something special for 49-year-old Lotte. She works daily with recruitment and employment at Novo Nordisk. It was not for religious reasons that she started singing gospel, but she says that singing with others has made her more religious. She finds that choral singing erases the complexes of the individual and makes everyone present sing with one voice.

"From the moment you come in and only concentrate on singing correctly and not stepping outside the box, you eventually find out that we all sing differently, and that the voices together create a fantastic whole."