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in the United States. At a very early age, Nielsen displayed a prodigious musical talent and began honing her skills performing Danish songs in her father's classes at the age of four. Nielsen stated in a 2002 interview that, "My father toured as an educationalist. He taught about
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on in a Danish folk dress and sing Danish songs in Danish classes." By age six, she was singing on the radio and a number of childhood recordings from as early as 1952 exist with
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while she was on tour in Iowa. Nielsen's father asked GĂĽden for advice on "what to do with this child" and, after hearing
Nielsen sing, advised her to pursue a professional singing career. A number of years later, after the Nielsens had moved back to Europe, Inga enrolled at the
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in 1985. Summer 1985 Nielsen recorded her first solo album with the
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said that this recording "preserves her singular combination of youthful, silvery timbre and visceral dramatic power". Other important successes during the 1990s and afterwards included Ursula in
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in London, and also the opera houses of Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Barcelona as well as New York, Buenos Aires, Florence and
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