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A seven-year-old girl's singing audition has gone viral around the world after she gave a soulful performance of Billie Holiday's classic Gloomy Sunday.

Little Angelina Jordan Astar won a standing ovation for her performance of the jazz song on Norway's answer to Britain's Got Talent.

Despite her youth she has had singing lessons for four years and although English is not her first language says she "understood the song very well."

The song came together in 1933 when music composed by Hungarian pianist Reezso Seress was put together with lyrics by Laszlo Javor from a love poem called Sad Sunday.

It was originally about his lover leaving him but then during the second world war, the lyrics were changed to reflect the end of world peace.

It was recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936 with lyrics by Sam Lewis adding a suicide angle.

The most famous version, by Billie Holiday in 1941 was so powerful that an urban legend began about people killing themselves while listening to it.

It has also been covered by controversial Irish songstress Sinead O'Connor, Bjork and Marianne Faithful.

Angelina told Norwegian TV: "I felt something special about it, it’s hard to explain in words. When I sang it for my mum, she said that this song is nice, but it was incredibly sad song."