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AGE: 23 years.

PROFESSION: Musician / artist.

FAMILY: Single.

LIVES: Nesodden, outside Oslo.

LIKES 1: Jazz, classical, pop. And film.


LIKES 2: “I like when girls touch my upper body when we speak.”

CURRENT: The CD Funny little world.

IDOL: Gene Kelly (because he was such a versatile artist).

FAVORITE MUSCLE: arms and chest.

He lifts his violin, grabs his bow and – bang! The show is running. Gym instructor Alexander whirls, jumps, kneels down. Every muscle is about to explode. Calves, thighs, stomach, back – everything is trimmed at Friskis & Svettis in Oslo.

Alexander Rybak, 23 – the fiddler...

The flying Norwegian

From “To Vima” newspaper 26/7/2009


Greek tabloid journalists used to call him bad names. But Alexander Rybak is just the opposite of what they said. He visited our country to promote his work, and he proved that all these people who were “digging a tomb” for him [idiomatic expression for defamation], are the ones who should be buried into this hole!

“You are too expressive. You shouldn’t smile so much”. That’s what the judge of a Norwegian talent show told him, after he rejected him. Alexander’s mistake then was that he didn’t bring his violin with him....

For the first time in two years the winner of ESC performed a classical concert.
“This is the first time I do a classical show, concerto since I won the ESC, and I thank you for the support”, Rybak said after the concert. There wasn’t a single tune from Fairytale or a single halling throw in the church last night. Instead there were classical pieces por Vivali, Händel and Tchaikovsky on the set list to the popular violinist. Rybak played from Händel’s Organ show, concerto in F-dur, from Tchaikovsky’s Serenda and from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons*.


Sven Nyhus
And a small Norwegian element, which Rybak...

The network has become one of the largest advertising channel for musicians. Rybak has nearly 300,000 fãs on Facebook.

“It is easy to be a megalomaniac, but I try to what I write there”, says Rybak. With nearly 300,000 fãs on Facebook, he is the single Norwegian musician with the most followers on Facebook. Only three groups, The black metal bands Dimmu Borgir and Immortal, and the electronica duo Röyksopp, have mais supporters among Norwegian música artists on the world’s largest online community.


'Spread quickly'

Artist’s Pages on facebook took off for about 3 years ago, as a...