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Alexander Rybak
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Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist
OverviewAI-generated
Alexander Rybak is a male Norwegian artist whose work spans pop, folk, classical crossover, and soft rock genres. He began his professional career in 1991 and is associated with Norway. His musical style has been tagged with descriptors including pop, folk, Norwegian, and Eurovision.
Rybak has released five works and maintains an official website. He has accumulated 1,560,000 social media followers and 539,557 listeners on Last.fm, where his music has been played 8,346,417 times. His lyrics include lines such as "I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts" and "Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day."
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Norway
- Active from
- 1986-05-13
Discography
- Funny Little World2009
- Fairytale2009
- Fairytales2009
- Roll With the Wind2009
- Небеса Европы2010
- Swinging Home For Christmas2010
- Fela Igjen2010
- Oah2010
- No Boundaries2010
- Resan till Dig2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 539,557
- Total plays
- 8,346,417
Tags
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/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,043x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,565x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,528x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,588x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,954x
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Quotes
- “I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don`t care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.”
- “Every day we started fighting. Every night we fell in love. No one else could make me sadder. But no one else could lift me high above.”
- “Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day.”
- “Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Igorevich Rybak (Russian: Александр Игоревич Рыбак; born 13 May 1986) or Alyaksandr Iharavich Rybak (Belarusian: Аляксандр Ігаравіч Рыбак) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and actor. Based in Oslo, Norway, Rybak extensively worked on television programs and on tours in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe throughout the early 2010s. Performing in English, Russian and Norwegian, Rybak has released five albums.
His debut 2009 album, Fairytales, charted in the top 20 in nine European countries, including a top position in Norway and Russia. After two pop albums in Fairytales and No Boundaries (2010), Rybak switched to become a family-oriented artist, focusing on children's and classical music and frequently performing with youth orchestras.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Rybak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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