Alexander rybak

Alexander RybakAlexander Rybak Rybak performing in 2009 Background information Birth name Alexander Igoryevich Rybak Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union Genres Pop, folk, adult contemp

Alexander Rybak

Alexander Rybak

Rybak performing in 2009

Background information Birth name Alexander Igoryevich Rybak

Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union

Genres Pop, folk, adult contemporary, soft rock, crossover, Baroque pop, indie pop

Occupations Singer, songwriter, violinist, composer, pianist, actor, model

Instruments Vocals, violin, piano

Years active 2006–present

Associated acts Eurovision Song Contest 2009, Frikar Website www.alexanderrybak.com [1]

Alexander Igoryevich Rybak (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Рыба́к, tr Aleksandr Igorevich Rybak) or in Belarusian Alyaxandr Igaravich Rybak (Belarusian: Алякса́ндр І́гаравіч Рыба́к, tr Alyaksandr Iharavich Rybak;

born 13 May 1986 in Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist, writer, and actor Representing Norway in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, Rybak won the contest with 387 points—the highest tally any country has achieved in the history of Eurovision—with

"Fairytale", a song he wrote and composed His debut album, Fairytales, charted in the top 20 in nine European

countries, including a No 1 position in Norway and Russia

Rybak has been a student at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo since the age of 10 Due to his success in the Eurovision Song Contest, he took a break from his bachelor's degree studies at the institute, but in 2011, he returned

to his studies and in June 2012, he graduated from Barratt Due Institute of Music as bachelor in Violin

• Full scholarship at the English summer-school "Meadowmount School of Music", 2003 – given to three students

in the world every year

•• High School (Videregående) at Rud Music, Dance and Drama

•• Bachelor in executive violin at Barrat Dues Musikkinstitutt, 2012 Grade A at final exam

Career

In 2004, Rybak was awarded the Anders Jahre Culture Prize In 2005, he entered the Norwegian version of Idol,

Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne, reaching the semifinal In 2006, Rybak won Kjempesjansen (“The Great

Opportunity”), a talent competition hosted by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), with his own song,

"Foolin" Rybak has collaborated with artists such as a-ha's lead singer Morten Harket and Arve Tellefsen In 2007,

Rybak played the fiddler in Oslo Nye Teater's production of Fiddler on the Roof and won the Hedda Award for this

role

Eurovision 2009

Rybak after he had won Eurovision 2009

Rybak won the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, with

a record 387 points, singing "Fairytale", a song inspired by Norwegian

folk music The song was composed and written by Rybak and was

performed together with the modern folk dance company Frikar The

song received good reviews with a score of 6 out of 6 in the Norwegian

newspaper Dagbladet, and, in an ESCtoday poll, he scored 71.3%,

making him the favourite to get into the final

In the Norwegian national heats, Rybak achieved a clean sweep,

gaining the top score from all nine voting districts and ending with a

combined televote and jury score of 747,888, while the runner up,

Tone Damli Aaberge, received a combined score of 121,856 (out of a

total population of less than 5 million)

The song competed in the second semi-final and won a place in the

Eurovision final

Rybak later won the Eurovision final with a landslide victory,

receiving votes from all the participating countries (except Norway,

which was not allowed to vote for itself) Rybak finished with a total of 387 points, breaking the previous record of

292 points scored by Lordi in 2006 and scoring 169 points more than the runner-up, Iceland

After Eurovision, film and the first album

Rybak and a dancer from Frikar, at a concert in Norway, September

2009

Rybak's first album, Fairytales, was released after his

Eurovision win Rybak also co-stars as Levi in the film

Yohan directed by Grete Salomonsen, which was

released in March 2010 Rybak also went on a tour in Norway with former Norwegian Eurovision winner Elisabeth Andreassen, something that had been decided before his Eurovision win and participation He and Frikar also toured Norway and Europe in 2009 In a December 2009 performance of his hit "Fairytale" at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, held at the Oslo Spektrum, Rybak shared the stage with nine other acts Too EMI Norway has just released a film entitled Fairytale, the movie, directed by acclaimed Norwegian director, Rune Langlo, documenting the journey of Alexander Rybak since claiming the top prize for Norway in Moscow

In 2009, he recorded the theme song, called "I Don't Believe in Miracles/Superhero", for the Russian action movie

Black Lightning produced by Timur Bekmambetov.[2]

-2010–2011

Rybak performing in 2011

On 30 January 2010, Rybak performed one of his new singles,

"Europe's Skies", in national final, Euroviisut 2010, to select the 2010

Finnish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 On 12 March 2010,

Alexander Rybak performed his Eurovision 2009 winning song

"Fairytale" on UK TV show Eurovision: Your Country Needs You In

April 2010, Rybak released a new song, featuring Opptur, called "Fela

Igjen" Alexander released his second album on 14 June 2010, called

No Boundaries It was not as successful as his first album, so far it has

peaked at number 7 in Norway, number 8 in Sweden and 32 in Finland

On 7 January 2011, Rybak was one of twelve contestants on the next

Swedish season of the dancing show Let's Dance (Swedish version of

television franchise Strictly Come Dancing), in the show Rybak danced

to win the competition against other Swedish celebrities Rybak made

it to the Top 4 before being voted off on 11 March, having received the

lowest scores from both juries and the voting public In 2011 he

released the album "Visa vid vindens ängar, a collaboration with Mats

Paulson whom he describes as "a legend and a great friend"

On December 11, 2011, he appeared as musical guest on X Factor (Romania)

2012-present

In 2012 he released a new music video for his Russian song "Strela Amura" "Strela Amura" is the Russian version

of Oah which is one of his previous singles released in 2010 The music video was shot in Kiev, Ukraine Alexander said: "For me the main thing is what is going on inside a person, not the events around them The video for the song

“Strela Amura” is about me, about my life, which consists of the airports and hotels You give happiness to others, and you are left alone yourself."

On 30 May 2012 he released a duet with Paula Seling called "I'll Show You" Seling placed third at the 2010 Eurovision The song had already been promoted on Romanian television and radio The German label Capsounds has signed the song and will be promoting it throughout Europe

A new single by Rybak titled "Leave Me Alone" was released worldwide on 12 October 2012 The premiere of the music video was also released shortly after the single which was on the 23rd of October The release of the Russian version of the song "Dostala" was on the 12th of November "Leave Me Alone" is about a particular female fan who has been stalking him in various ways for quite some time The new track which will be released during the day is co-written by David Eriksen who is well-known to fans of the Eurovision Song Contest for writing "Butterflies" for Tone Damli Aaberge which was the runner-up to Rybak in the 2009 Melodi Grand Prix

Rybak released a Christmas album on 23 November 2012 entitled Christmas-tales Recording started spring 2012.

In 2013, Rybak composed an entry for Melodi Grand Prix called "I'm With You" sung by Annsofi Pettersen, placing fourth in the Norwegian national final.[3]

Personal life

Rybak was born on 13 May 1986, in Minsk, Belarus—which at that time was the Belarusian SSR in the Soviet Union When he was 4 years old, he and his family moved to Norway Rybak was baptized and raised in the Orthodox religion At the age of five, Rybak began to play the piano and the violin His parents are Natalia Valentinovna Rybak, a classical pianist, and Igor Alexandrovich Rybak, a well-known classical violinist who performs alongside Pinchas Zukerman.[4] He stated "I always liked to entertain and somehow that is my vocation" Rybak bought a new apartment and lives now at Aker Brygge (Oslo, Norway) Rybak speaks Norwegian, Russian and English fluently, and has performed songs in all three languages

In 2010, several incidents of uncontrolled anger caused commentators to question whether Rybak has an anger control problem During the trials for the ESC 2010 finals in Bærum, Rybak became so infuriated when a sound technician was not doing what he wanted that he smashed his own hand, breaking his fingers Also, during trials for Swedish television in June 2010, he smashed his violin on the floor His appearance was then canceled According to his manager, Kjell Arild Tiltnes, Rybak does not have an issue with aggression Tiltnes stated that "as long as he abreacts on objects and on himself, I see no reason for this to be something that he needs help dealing with." Rybak said, "I never raised my voice before, and that's why I did what I did I'm just a human being—and perhaps not the glossy image many believe So it was good to get out frustrations so I could go on It's only me that goes beyond the same."

Discography

• Fairytales (2009)

• No Boundaries (2010)

• Visa vid vindens ängar (2011)

• Christmas Tales (2012)

Videography

Film

Year Film Role Notes

2009 Fairytale – The Movie Himself Documentary about Alexander Rybak after his ESC-Victory

2009 Some Sunny Night - Live in Lillesand Ketil Moe Musical

2010 How to Train Your Dragon Hiccup Animated Movie (Norwegian dubbed version)

2010 Mumintrollet - Kometen Kommer Mumin Animated Movie (Norwegian dubbed version)

Awards

•• Winner of "Sparre Olsen - competition for young classical musicians", in 2000 and 2001

• Winner of ”Anders Jahres Culture-Award” 2004

• Winner of TV- talent-competition "Kjempesjansen” 2006

• Winner of the ”Hedda-Award” to the “Newcomer of the year in Norwegian Theater”, 2007, for the title role in

”Fiddler on the Roof” at Oslo Nye Teater

• Winner of “Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix” 2009, with the highest score of all times

• Winner of “Eurovision Song Contest” 2009, with the highest score of all times

• Winner of “Australian Radio Listeners Award” for European musicians, 2009

• Winner of the “Marcel Bezencon Press Award” at Eurovision 2009

• Winner of Russian Grammy for ”Newcomer of the year” 2010

• Winner of Norwegian Grammy-awards: "Spellemann of the Year” 2010

• Winner of ”International Russian Name Award” in Moscow 2011

• Winner of ”Countrymen of the Year” Belarus 2013

References

[1] http:/ / www alexanderrybak com/

[2] "They said it would kill my career" Rybak: "I listened only to myself" (http:/ / www esctoday com/ news/ read/ 14744?id=14744&

offset=81), esctoday.com, 2 January 2010

[3] http:/ / www escdaily com/ live-norway-melodi-grand-prix-2013-final/

[4] Biography: April 2009 (http:/ / www emimusic de/ info/ 84880 html) Alexander Rybak, EMI Music, Germany

External links

• Official homepage (http://www.alexanderrybak.com)

• Official Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/alexanderrybak)

• Fan web-site(Russian) of Alexander Rybak (http://www.alexandrrybak.com/)

• Alexander Rybak Official International Fan site (English and Russian) (http://www.facebookies.org/)

• Alexander Rybak PR (http://www.entertainmentarchitects.ie/TheMusic/Alexander_Rybak) in Republic of

Ireland

Awards and achievements

Preceded by

Dima Bilan with "Believe"

Winner of the Eurovision Song

Contest

2009

Succeeded by

Lena with "Satellite"

Preceded by

Maria Haukaas Storeng with "Hold On Be Strong"

Norway in the Eurovision Song

Contest

2009

Succeeded by

Didrik Solli-Tangen with "My Heart Is Yours"

Preceded by

Espen Lind

Recipient of the Spellemannprisen

as This year's Spellemann

2009

Succeeded by

Karpe Diem

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