His hit song, "Fairytale," won him the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow in 2009, also jumpstarting his career. His score of 387 points was a record for the contest, and soon after, Rybak released his first album, Fairytales. He then went on to tour throughout Europe, and even performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert held in December, 2009. Rybak is quite the "Aaron Carter of the '90s" for young girls in Europe, but unfortunately he has not yet made his way into American pop culture. But luckily he still has time!
The following year, Rybak released another big hit, "Europe's Skies," which is heavily influenced by traditional Russian music. The violin is stronger than ever, and Rybak sings of his love for Europe and his life filled with travel. Other songs of his have the distinct subjects of love and nationalism. His second album was called No Boundaries, which reached number seven on Norwegian charts even though it wasn't as successful as Fairytales. His only album written and performed in the Norwegian language was released in 2012.
Since then, Rybak has released a few music videos and new singles, but his most recent album was a Christmas album called Christmas-tales, all versions of traditional tunes sung in English. Other than singing and performing, Rybak has done some small-time acting and participated on popular shows such as the X-Factor in Romania.
Nice article, but Alexander Rybak has done much more. Read his Bio and his list of releases and awards here: http://www.alexanderrybak.com/bio/
ReplyDeleteAnd he has released 4 albums - none of them in Norwegian. His third album "Visa vid Vindens ängar" is in Swedish language and was released in 2011. I think, you diminish his career a little. He is a very skilled and versatile violinist, composer, singer and entertainer, who has been very productive for many years. I hope, readers will use your link to his homepage and read more about him there :-)
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