Katastrofe & Alexander Rybak

In summer 2011 team Disaster up with hit-producer Nasty Kutt and Kriss (Erik and Kriss) and made dancefloor monster "Nødlanding", which was released on Universal Music.  Tradition music video was filled with women, booze and singing, and the country over one million views on YouTube. Aided by high radio rotation and platinum selling single, it was all a very enjoyable debut.
In 2012 he returned to most of the country's radio stations via a guest appearance on Robin and Bugge "Backpacker" -single, resulting once again in platinum wallflower plus a gig at the opening show to Norway Cup Ekebergsletta front 20,000 people.
After 7,000,000 streams and about 2,000,000 views on Youtube has the festive Fredrikstad artist locked himself in the studio again and now has several new radio singles ready.
"Bleik og sur" released in January - Sequel to "Brun og blid" as KataStrofe, Staysman & MMB has ravaged spotify with the recent past and recently went gold.

Alexander Rybak was born in Minsk, Belarus, but he grew up in Norway. He started playing the violin and the guitar at the age of five and he also began singing and writing his own songs. He hit the stage soon and performed with famous artists like Morten Harket of a-ha (Eurovision Song Contest 1996 host), Hanne Krogh (Norway 1971, 1985, 1991) and Arve Tellefsen.
Having already taken part in Norwegian Pop Idol in 2005, Alexander took part in the second edition of the talent search Kjempesjansen, a Norwegian TV show that is looking for young talents in music and dance, in 2006. He could win this show with his own composition Foolin'. He later won the Anders Jahres award and became a conductor for Norway's most famous orchestra of young musicians. In 2007, he starred as fiddler in the Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick musical Fiddler on the roof in Oslo.
In 2009, Alexander took part in MGP 2009, the Norwegian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. He qualified from the semi final and could win the national final by a landslide. At that time, Fairytale was already the number one in the Norwegian charts and it was therefore the first MGP entry ever to top the charts before the final was held. To date, the single has sold to multiple platinum and after its victory in Moscow, it became a hit all over Europe. He gained the top score of all 9 voting districts, ending with a combined televote and jury score of 747888. The runner up received a combined score of 121856.
He ended up winning the Eurovision Song Contest with a record points tally of 387.
With Funny little world, he scored another number one hit in his home country.
Alexander Rybak won " Ã…rets Spellemann" Norway`s biggest music award 06.03.2010.
May 18th 2010 Alexander Rybak got his picture on the new series of Norwegian stamps.
Alexander was one of the dancers in TV4 (Swedish TV) "Let`s dance" (Stricktly come dancing) in 2011.

Albums:
* Fairytales - 2009
* No Boundaries - 2010
* Visa vid Vindens Ängar - 2011
* Christmas Tales - 2012