Monday's Laneway Festival in Auckland was a showcase of the best up-and-comers in music, but few have risen quite so fast as Aurora.
From Norway to New Zealand - it doesn't get much further than the distance Aurora has travelled to Laneway.
But the 20-year-old has gone a long way fast.
She started writing aged nine, was signed at 16 and today is a rising pop music star.
"It's not a thing you believe will happen in your room at the age of nine - that in 10 years I'll be in New Zealand talking with you. It's very strange," she told Newshub.
The gravity of her music is just as surprising. It often sounds light, upbeat and happy, but touches on darkness, sadness and death.
"I want people to feel comfortable with sadness, because I think we're very afraid of it, especially talking about why we're sad and angry and afraid," Aurora says.
It's a kind of therapy for herself and her fans in a world of protest, fear and division - a world that spurred Brexit and Donald Trump.
"I think the world, especially now needs as many good and pure voices as possible, because it's not difficult to spread fear and hate."
They're serious topics for someone so young - but music to Aurora is serious business.
"It's a responsibility - like a president has a responsibility to be a good role model, so do we, in front of my supporters," she says.
"I have many young ones and in a few years they'll be the grownups of the world."
Luckily, it's also a source of great joy - just ask Aurora about her plans for new music.
"I can't wait. It makes me feel in love - you know the same kind of bubbly feeling in your body - that's how I get when I think about being int he studio again and releasing more music."
When she does, for Aurora, the sky's the limit. After all, she's named after the Northern Lights.
Newshub.
