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Alexander Rybak
12+ albums
popfolknorwegianEurovisionNorway
about
The Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) winner 2009 with his own song 'Fairytale' – Alexander Igoryevich Rybak – was born 13 May 1986 in Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union. He came to Norway with his musical parents only four years old. He is singer-composer, violinist, pianist, and writer. His song 'Typisk Norsk' (released Nov 2015) was a hit on Spotify and the e-music market. After winning the 54th ESC 2009 in Moscow, Russia, with the highest score of all times, he is also actor and presenter/host. He has made four full-length albums in the genres pop, folk soft rock crossover. At the age of five, Rybak began to play the piano and the violin, and soon also the guitar and began singing and writing his own songs. In 2006 he won a Norwegian talent show with his own composition 'Foolin''. In 2007, he starred as fiddler in the Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick musical Fiddler on the roof in Oslo. - - - Alexander Rybak was born in Minsk, Belarus, but he grew up in Norway. He started playing the violin and the guitar at the age of five and he also began singing and writing his own songs. He hit the stage soon and performed with famous artists like Morten Harket of a-ha (Eurovision Song Contest 1996 host), Hanne Krogh (Norway 1971, 1985, 1991) and Arve Tellefsen. Having already taken part in Norwegian Pop Idol in 2005, Alexander took part in the second edition of the talent search Kjempesjansen, a Norwegian TV show that is looking for young talents in music and dance, in 2006. He
