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Eurovision Countdown- 2009 Winner Alexander Rybak

A couple of weeks ago I started a series of "mini posts" (or maybe a mini series) related to the Eurovision Song Contest . (I did the same last year as well ). You can see the first post below, which is about AleXa, the winner of the first American Song Contest (a Eurovision spin-off):

Eurovision Countdown- ASC 2022 Winner AleXa: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/04/eurovision-countdown-asc-2022-winner.html


Today I'm sharing an update on 2009 Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak. He entered for Norway in 2009 (he was born in Belarus and moved to Norway as a child) with the song Fairytale and won the contest. 

As well as being a singer, Alexander is also a violinist and pianist, and he played the violin in his performance of Fairytale.

Visit this post to see him perform at the final (scroll down): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/05/eurovision-songs-i-like.html

He also entered Eurovision again for Norway with That's How You Write a Song in 2018.


I've previously written two updates about Alex and featured him in another post:

Eurovision Contestant Updates (from 2015; also features an update on 2005 winner Helena Paparizou): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/05/eurovision-update.html

Current Favourites and Past Contestants (2017): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/05/eurovision-faves-and-past-contestant.html

Selection of Eurovision Songs (features his 2018 entry( https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/05/selection-of-eurovision-songs.html


Since my last post, Alexander starred in the Norwegian children's musical Trolle og den magiske fela in 2019, and in summer 2020 he went to Columbia College Chicago to study for a degree in film music composition. He graduated last July and has released new music this year, the songs No More Me and You and 1000 Views. 


No More Me and You with Annsofi 

In February, Alex brought out the single No More Me and You with Annsofi Petersen of the Norwegian pop duo annsofi and me. It's an English language song about regretting the end of a relationship.




1000 Views feat. Grace Kelly 

And here is his latest single, 1000 Views (also English), which is about reaching 1000 views on a YouTube video! It features American saxophonist (and also singer) Grace Kelly and was released on 23rd April.



Hope you liked the post! :) Who are your favourite Eurovision winners?

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