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Alexander Rybak is known for his extensive involvement in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Alexander Rybak's win was celebrated throughout Europe for crushing stereotypes about the contest, such as needing an over-the-top performance or the influence of neighbour voting.

Since then, Alexander Rybak has been involved several times in the contest.

Alexander Rybak represented Norway again in the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "That's How You Write a Song", winning the second semi-final and finishing in 15th place in the final.

Alexander Rybak performed as an opening act for the final and as an interval act in and

Alexander Rybak has frequently provided commentary on the contest, and worked as a journalist in , and as a judge on the Belgian national finals in and

Alexander Rybak was born in Minsk, Belarus, which at that time was the Byelorussian SSR in the Soviet Union.

Alexander Rybak's father lived with a musical family who gave him shelter and food in exchange for violin lessons for their son.

At the age of five, Alexander Rybak began to play piano but eventually picked up the violin as his main instrument.

Alexander Rybak stated "I always liked to entertain and somehow that is my vocation".

Alexander Rybak became a student at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo at the age of

In , Alexander Rybak was awarded the Anders Jahre Culture Prize at the annual culture festival in Madrid, Spain.

In , Alexander Rybak won Kjempesjansen, a talent competition hosted by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, with his own song, "Foolin".

Alexander Rybak has collaborated with artists such as a-ha's lead singer Morten Harket and Arve Tellefsen.

In , Alexander Rybak played the fiddle in Oslo Nye Teater's production of Fiddler on the Roof and won the Hedda Award for this role.

Alexander Rybak won the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, with a record points, singing "Fairytale", a song inspired by Norwegian folk music.

The song was composed and written by Alexander Rybak and was performed with the modern folk dance company Frikar.

Alexander Rybak later won the Eurovision final with a landslide victory, receiving votes from all the other participating countries.

Alexander Rybak finished with a total of points, breaking the previous record of points scored by Lordi in and scoring points more than the runner-up, Iceland.

Alexander Rybak went on a tour in Norway with former Norwegian Eurovision winner Elisabeth Andreassen, something that had been decided before his Eurovision win and participation.

EMI Norway has just released a film entitled Fairytale, the movie, directed by acclaimed Norwegian director, Rune Langlo, documenting the journey of Alexander Rybak since claiming the top prize for Norway in Moscow.

On 30 January , Alexander Rybak performed one of his new singles, "Europe's Skies", in the national final, Euroviisut , to select the Finnish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest

On 12 March , Alexander Rybak performed his Eurovision winning song "Fairytale" on UK TV show Eurovision: Your Country Needs You.

On 8 June , Alexander Rybak released the first single from his second album "Oah".

Alexander Rybak recorded and released a Russian version of this song called "Strela Amura".

Alexander Rybak released his second album on 14 June , called No Boundaries.

On 7 January , Alexander Rybak was one of twelve contestants on the next Swedish season of the dancing show Let's Dance, in the show Alexander Rybak danced to win the competition against other Swedish celebrities.

Alexander Rybak released a Christmas album on 23 November entitled Christmas-tales.

Around the same time, it was revealed that Alexander Rybak wrote a song for Norwegian singer Annsofi for Melodi Grand Prix

Alexander Rybak recorded a song for the How to Train Your Dragon 2 soundtrack, entitled "Into a Fantasy".

Alexander Rybak had sent in the track unsolicited to film company DreamWorks, which was charmed by the song and decided to include it in the soundtrack for the closing credits.

Alexander Rybak took part in The Hit, a live TV show on Norwegian broadcaster NRK on 10 October

Alexander Rybak performed "What I Long For", a song written by Elisabet Mjanger.

Alexander Rybak wrote two entries for national selections for Eurovision in

Alexander Rybak wrote a song for Maltese singer Franklin Calleja titled "Still Here".

The result led to great controversy and Alexander Rybak critiqued the jury for putting the entry fifth.

Alexander Rybak later declared that radio DJs refused to play the song as they felt it was a childish song and some DJs were asking Alexander Rybak for financial compensation for playing it.

Alexander Rybak initially struggled to find a publisher for this, as most publishers were only interested in the physical book.

In early , Alexander Rybak was a one-off jury member in Eurosong, Belgium's selection for Eurovision

Alexander Rybak performed as a part of the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest , in a musical number satirizing Eurovision songs.

In , Alexander Rybak marked his ten-year's anniversary as an artist by re-releasing former singles such as his debut single "Foolin'" and "5 To 7 Years".

Alexander Rybak sang "Fairytale" during the final of You Decide, the preselection of the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest

That same year, Alexander Rybak teamed up with German singer and violinist Franziska Wiese and had a duet with her on his singles "Fairytale" and "Kotik", while performing the former at the annual Schlagerboom festival.

Alexander Rybak released his own version of the song, including self-written English lyrics.

In January , it was revealed that Alexander Rybak would be taking part in the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix , to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "That's How You Write a Song".

Alexander Rybak stated that he wanted to take part mostly for pleasure, rather than wanting to win the competition, stating that Norwegian singer Jahn Teigen, who participated fourteen times in the Norwegian selection and won three times, was his inspiration.

Alexander Rybak was not the bookmakers and experts' favourite to win the selection, but topped several public polls ahead of the competition.

Alexander Rybak proceeded to the last four, where he first beat Aleksander Walmann in a duel and then proceeded to the final duel with singer Rebecca, which he won.

NRK denied this, pointing to the voting statistics that showed that Alexander Rybak had won with a large margin.

Alexander Rybak was drawn to perform first in the second semi-final on 10 May and finished first overall, becoming the first-ever Eurovision performer to win two semi-finals after he won the second semi-final in

In , Alexander Rybak co-wrote an entry for Melodi Grand Prix together with Jowst for singer Magnus Bokn called "Over the Sea".

Alexander Rybak was set to appear as part of an interval act at Eurovision , which was later cancelled due to the COVID pandemic.

Alexander Rybak's "Fairytale" finished 3rd in Wallonia's Votre top 20,17th in the Netherlands's NPO Radio 2 Songfestival Top 50 list, and 6th in the United Kingdom's special Eurovision: Come Together show.

Alexander Rybak was convinced to attend Columbia by Kubilay Uner, director of the film music composition MFA program.

Alexander Rybak is often classified as having a tenore di grazia voice.

Alexander Rybak has been noted multiple times for having a strong natural vibrato in his voice.

Alexander Rybak's voice has been appreciated for creating whole and clear sounds.

Alexander Rybak did not visit his country of birth for 17 years between his emigration to Norway and his first performance in Belarus in the Summer of

In , Alexander Rybak met his half-sister for the first time in many years.

Alexander Rybak bought a new apartment and lives now at Aker Brygge.

Alexander Rybak speaks Norwegian, Russian, and English fluently, and has performed songs in all three languages.

Alexander Rybak has performed in Belarusian and, with Elisabeth Andreassen, in Swedish.

In , Alexander Rybak was featured in the media negatively after a few incidents of uncontrolled anger.

Alexander Rybak later stated he had to learn to say "no".

In and , Alexander Rybak struggled a lot with an unidentified illness, which led him to cancel several performances.

In October , Alexander Rybak declared he was hypochondriac, stating "all people above 20 have their own battle with something".

Alexander Rybak started working in a group for his children's musical Trolle og den magisken fela has helped him.

In May , Alexander Rybak revealed that he had been addicted to sleeping medications and antidepressants for 11 years, and had begun to recover after entering rehab in January.

Alexander Rybak began attending Columbia College Chicago virtually from his home in Norway in fall of , and subsequently moved to Chicago to continue his studies in person by August