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Also known as Alexander Igorevich Rybak

Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist

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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."

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Norway
Active from
1986-05-13
2010sclassical crossoverfolkpopsoft rock

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
539,557
Total plays
8,346,417

Tags

popfolknorwegianEurovisionNorway

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/

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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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