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"Fairytale" is a song composed, written, and recorded by Belarusian-Norwegian singer-songwriter Alexander Rybak. It represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 held in Moscow, winning the contest. It is the first single from Rybak's debut album Fairytales released on 29 May 2009 just after the contest.
NRK gave Rybak a good review saying that Rybak was "a good pop composer." [ 8 ] Dagsavisen gave the record 5 points out of 6, exclaiming "the fairy tale continues!" [ 9 ] The radio channel P4 Radio Hele Norge gave the album a rather poor review.
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.
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".
Norway participated in and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Fairytale" written and performed by Alexander Rybak.The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) organised the national final Melodi Grand Prix 2009 in order to select the Norwegian entry for the 2009 contest in Moscow, Russia. 21 entries competed in the national final that consisted of three semi-finals, a Last ...
Norway won for the third time in 2009, with Alexander Rybak and his song "Fairytale". The song's score of 387 points was the highest ever winning total under the 1975-2015 voting system, and also achieved the biggest ever margin of victory: 492 points in total were distributed between the competing countries in 2009, meaning "Fairytale ...
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Funny Little World" was first released digitally as a Platekompaniet exclusive in Norway on May 13, Alexander Rybak's birthday. The song reached the top spot in its second week. Alexander Rybak performed an acoustic version of the song for the first time at a press conference at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia. [4]