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Bergen, Norway

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Kurt Erik Nilsen (born September 29, 1978 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian pop/country singer. He won the first season of the Norwegian version of the reality television show Pop Idol, which aired on TV2 in May 2003. He then won a one-off international version of Pop Idol, called World Idol on January 1, 2004, featuring winners of the various national idol shows. Upon leaving school, Nilsen made his living as a plumber. Nilsen became the lead singer in the Norwegian band Fenrik Lane. He is a left-handed musician and plays his guitar with the strings upside down. He appeared on and won Pop Idol with 54% of the votes against Gaute Ormåsen. He is one of only seven contestants in the Idol (Norway) history who succeeded in staying out of "bottom three/two" places in weekly votes. His subsequent single, "She`s so high", written by Tal Bachman, went straight to number one in the Norwegian singles chart and is among the biggest-selling singles in Norway to date. His debut album was simply called I. He subsequently won the vote for the World Idol title on January 1, 2004, singing the hit "Beautiful Day" by U2, beating competitors from ten other nations, including the more famous Idols, Britain`s Will Young, and favourite Kelly Clarkson of the United States, and scoring the first place in 10 out of 11 countries eligible to vote for him (Norwegian voters being unable to vote for him). In the show presenting the entries on December 25, Ian Dickson, the Australian (English ex-pat) judge said: "Kurt, you are a hell of a marketing challenge, because you have the voice of an angel but you look like a Hobbit." The comment made Kurt laugh out loud. The crowd seemed to revel in his underdog status as a gap-toothed man, with the astonishingly good voice. His second CD, A Part Of Me, released in 2004, contains only his own material. Nilsen performed the duet, It`s All Coming Back To Me Now, alongside Norwegian Pop/Alternative Rocker Marion Raven at the One Call Event. Taking the place of Meat Loaf, with whom Raven recorded the track for the Bat Out Of Hell 3 album. In 2006 he and three other Norwegian artists Askil Holm, Espen Lind and Alejandro Fuentes, all in the same management, joined forces and went on tour in March as what was known by the media as "The New Guitar Buddies". Initially, they planned just a short tour (five to six concerts), but they got so popular that they ended up playing for more than 100.000 people during their tour of around 30 concerts. Although they had not planned to, they subsequently released a live album that turned out to be the fastest selling album of all time in Norway. So far they have sold around 250,000 copies of it. On the heels of this success, they released a live DVD, which also soon became a commercial hit. After only two weeks, it was almost the best-selling music DVD of all time in Norway. Nilsen performed the duet "When You`re Gone" alongside English pop singer, and former-Spice Girl member, Melanie C at the Top 20 event at Rådhusplassen in Oslo, Norway in the summer of 2007. In 2008, in connection with his latest and country flavoured album Rise To The Occasion Kurt teamed up with American music legend Willie Nelson to perform the old country music standard "Lost Highway". The song was an instant hit in his native Norway and helped him top both the single chart, the album chart and the radio chart all at once. In 2009, "The New Guitar Buddies" will be back with a new tour and a new album, tour star is scheduled to be May 9, Rockerfeller, Oslo. In January 2005, he broke up with his fiancée, Kristine Jacobsen. They had been together for 11 years and had two children together: Marte (born 1996) and Erik (born 2000). Nilsen has received national attention for his guitar-shaped alpine hut, in the Hardangervidda in Norway.

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Kurt Erik Nilsen

Kurt Erik Kleppe Nilsen (born September 29, 1978) is a Norwegian pop/country singer. He won the first season of the Norwegian version of the reality television show Pop Idol, which aired on TV 2 in May 2003. He then won a one-off international version of Pop Idol, called World Idol on January 1, 2004, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows.

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