Biography
Alexander Rybak - Eurovision winner in 2009. The young man with touching appearance and a strong voice fascinated the viewers of the show and put the record for the number of points recruited in the competition. This victory provided the young Norwegian musician of Belarusian origin popularity worldwide.
Alexander Fisherman's biography originates in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. The singer was born on May 13, 1986, today became the standard of success among young singers and composers in Europe.
Alexander grew in a creative family. Parents Alexander Rybaka are professional musicians who gave an example a boy from an early age. Father Igor Alexandrovich played all his life in the music ensemble of Vitebsk on the violin. Mother singer, Natalya Valentinovna, Pianist, devoted himself to the editorial board of music programs on television of Belarus.
The love of music in the family of Alexander Fisherman was transferred from generation to generation, grandmother Savitskaya Maria Borisovna is also associated with this direction, a woman taught students lessons in a music school. From young age, the boy was interested in singing and music. Already at the age of five, Alexander began to take steps under the leadership of the Father, the boy was taught to play piano and violin.
At an early age, Alexander Rybak composed the first songs that subsequently performed. In 1990, a family with a little son moved to Norway, where his father got a prestigious job. Alexandra Rybaka was given to the music school, receiving a certificate, the young man flashed with talents and entered the conservatory of the city of Oslo.
Since childhood, Sasha delighted three artists who became an incentive and an example for imitation - Mozart, Bitles and Sting Group.
Since childhood, Alexander Rybak participated in the role of vocalist in the musical of the Norwegian group "A-HA" under the leadership of Morten Harket. A young guy during the years of growing time, the majority of European countries have managed to travel in China and the United States. The fisherman was lucky enough to step onto one scene with the legendary stars of Music Arve Telfsen and Hannah Krog. The screenshots of Pikhnas Tsuckerman praised Alexander Fisherman for his ceremony, talent and love for music.
2006 was marked for a singer with successful participation in the competitive program of the young talent "KJEMPESJANSEN", which was held in Norway. There, the young man performed his own song "Foolin '" and received her first place for her. To date, Alexander Rybak has been working at the Wing Symphony Symphony Youth Orchestra in Norway as a concertmaster.
Music
In the spring of 2009, the whole world was watching Alexander Rybak conquered the hearts of billion spectators at the Eurovision 2009 International Competition, where he sang and played on the violin's own song FairyTale.
The fisherman set an absolute record (387 points) in the history of the competition and became the winner. The singer himself soon said that the composition was devoted to the former lover musician ingrid.
Alexander Fisherman's first album was released a month after Eurovision. Fans of young artist put queues in music stores to purchase discs. A rapid growth of popularity made a superstar who is not famous for the night.
The fateful 2009 has not ended with the victory at Eurovision and the release of the album. Already in September, Alexander Rybak decided to participate in the popular show on the first channel - "Minute of Fame".
Turn in Russia, which began in November, passed with stunning success. Alexander Rybak managed to call in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Samara, Ekaterinburg and Rostov-on-Don. At the end of the month, an event was held on which the singer together with the famous figure skater Alexey Yagudin presented the future symbolism for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.
As a pet and artist, Rybak arrived at the Ukrainian "Star Factory", where he sang along with one of the project participants. In January 2010, Alexander Rybaka was invited to voice the main character of the Norwegian cartoon "How to Train Your Dragon". A few months later, the inhabitants of Tallinn could hear the lively execution of the artist, the concert was held in the Hall of "Nokia", and the demand for tickets was stupid.
The last at the moment the studio album "Christmas Tales" came out in 2012, but this does not mean that the musician stopped pleaseing the fans with new songs.
At the same time, the musician composes new compositions both for itself and for other performers. In 2014, the Norwegian musician wrote "Still Here" for the Eurovision Member, which represented Malta, Franklin Gallei.
In 2015, together with Belarusian colleagues, the musician wrote a song called "Accent". The Belarusian group "Milki" made this composition at the Belarusian republican stage of selection for Eurovision, where he ranked fourth.
In 2015, the fisherman recorded the composition quickly hit. His "cat" was distinguished by a slight romantic meaning and repeated simple text. The song and the clip quickly found many fans. In 2016, the video came to the song "Ambrazame".
In addition, the musician regularly appears on television, and the singer is welcome to Norwegian and Belarusian and Russian TV channels. In 2015, the musician became a member of the showing show "one to one!", Where she reached the final and took second place. Also, the fisherman himself became an object for parodies in this TV show.
Plagiarism
Repeatedly since the "Eurovision 2009" of Alexander Rybaka was accused of plagiarism. Independently composed by a musician songs are often very similar to the already existing compositions. The popular fisherman song "FairyTale" in its motives is very similar to the composition "Bit Pazari", which is performed by the Turkish singer Hussein Yalyn.Another reason for the scandal was the song "Abandoned", someone considered that she was too similar to the "caravaline song" Kirill Molchanova. At the same time, the fisherman did not deny this similarity, on the contrary, representatives of the musician stated that this is indeed the same composition, that's just the transfer of rights to performance and recycling were decorated in all the rules. Fisherman honestly bought rights to execution, which simply cannot be considered a plagiarism.
Alexander Rybak in 2010 became the owner of the Antipremia "Silver Kalosh", then the musician heard accusations of plagiarism because of the composition "I don't Want to Miss a Thing", which was similar to one of the songs of the Aerosmith group.
One of the tracks of the album "No Boundaries" was very similar to the song Valeria Meladze "How beautiful you are today." It gave rise to a wave of indignation both in the press and on the network, as it turned out later, in vain. The fisherman again completely bought the rights to the melody favorite.
Personal life
The young man has gained enormous popularity, but it did not help him too much in his personal life. Ingrid, in honor of which the victory was written to the victory the musician song, threw a fisherman five years before Eurovision. He tried to restore relations with the girl, becoming popular, but saw that ingrid only earns them in their total past. In order not to ban his long-standing feelings, Alexander did not raise the scandal and try to prevent her.
In 2010, Alexander He supported the German singer Lena Mayer during Eurovision. He rehearsed with her and just spent a lot of time nearby. The girl took the first place and continued to communicate with the musician. Lovers did not deny that they were a couple, and hinted at the wedding. But marriage did not happen.
Today, Alexander Rybak tells journalists that he has a girlfriend on which he does not plan to marry and whose personality does not want to reveal the press.
Alexander Rybak now
In early 2018, it became known that the musician was chosen as a second time as a representative of Norway to participate in the executor who brought the world famine "Eurovision".On March 10, 2018, the singer became the winner of the final of the Norwegian qualifying round for the potential participants of Eurovision. Thanks to this victory, the musician and received an honest right to represent the country at the competition. The singer's victory at this stage brought the song "That's How You Write A Song".
In an interview with the participation in Eurovision, the musician admitted that he wanted to become a reason for the pride of his native Norway, but at the same time the musician admits that his chances of winning him were rather small, because in the entire history of the competition, this was successful for one person - Representative of Ireland Johnny Logan.
On May 12, Eurovision-2018 finals took place, a singer from Israel was defeated, Alexander Rybak became only 15th.
Discography
To date, the discography of Alexander Rybak has five studio albums:
- 2009 - "FairyTales"
- 2010 - "Okneshenopia"
- 2010 - "No Boundaries"
- 2011 - "Visa Vid Vindens Angar"
- 2012 - "Christmas Tales"
Also on the score of the singer more than a dozen of individual singles and clips.