Alexander Rybak

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.

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 could win this show with his own composition Foolin'. He later won the Anders Jahres award and became a conductor for Norway's most famous orchestra of young musicians. In 2007, he starred as fiddler in the Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick musical Fiddler on the roof in Oslo. In 2009, Alexander took part in MGP 2009, the Norwegian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest.

He qualified from the semi final and could win the national final by a landslide. At that time, Fairytale was already the number one in the Norwegian charts and it was therefore the first MGP entry ever to top the charts before the final was held. To date, the single has sold to multiple platinum and after its victory in Moscow, it became a hit all over Europe. He gained the top score of all 9 voting districts, ending with a combined televote and jury score of 747888.

The runner up received a combined score of 121856. He ended up winning the Eurovision Song Contest with a record points tally of 387. With Funny little world, he scored another number one hit in his home country. Alexander Rybak won " Årets Spellemann" Norway`s biggest music award 06.03.2010. May 18th 2010 Alexander Rybak got his picture on the new series of Norwegian stamps. Alexander was one of the dancers in TV4 (Swedish TV) "Let`s dance" (Dancing with the stars) in 2011. Album: * Fairytales - 2009 * No Boundaries - 2010 * Visa vid Vindens Ängar - 2011 User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..