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Rybak was born in Minsk, which at that time was part of Soviet Belarus.His parents hail from the town of Vitebsk in Northern Belarus. His father Igor Rybak, a well-known classical violinist who performed alongside Pinchas Zukerman, defected to Norway in 1991 after a concert tour of a Belarusian chamber orchestra which he was part of.
Trolle og den magiske fela (Trolle and the magical violin) is the fifth studio album and the first Norwegian-language album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, released on 2 November 2015, alongside the eponymous children's book.
Alexander Rybak won with the song "That's How You Write a Song", receiving 71% of the vote in the Gold Duel. The song competed in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, held on 10 May 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Alexander Rybak lend his voice to the main character Hiccup in the Norwegian dub of the How To Train Your Dragon franchise. He wrote a song titled "Come Fly with Me" during a difficult period in his life and decided he wanted to include in the song book Trolle og den magiske fela on which he was also working then.
This is the discography of Belarusian-Norwegian singer-songwriter Alexander Rybak.He represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia, and eventually went on to win the contest with 387 points—the highest tally any country achieved (under the 1975–2015 points system) in the history of Eurovision—with "Fairytale".
"Rybak is seducing, but not entirely convincing" their critic stated, giving it 4 out of 6 points. [4] Aftenposten gave it 5 out of 6 stars, calling Rybak "a complete artist." [ 5 ] Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet , however, caused a stir by giving the record merely 1 star and hurling epithets like "violin hobbit" and "smurf hits" at the artist ...
A music video was shot by Oleksandr Filatovych in Kyiv and released in June 2012 by both Rybak's own music channel and ELLO. By July 2020, the music video had reached to over 10 million views. [10] In 2014, Norwegian musician Øivind Elgenes made a cover of the song as part of Alexander Rybak's day on the musical programme Hver gang vi møtes. [2]
The start of the video has Rybak running through a street, stopping at the doors of the asylum during a thunderstorm, as the doors open he states that "he wants to be admitted" as a crazy girl has been following him, then Alexander admits himself into the asylum as the orderlies then grab him, he's placed into a straight-jacket and placed in a ...