Halvdan Sivertsen

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Halvdan Sivertsen

Halvdan Sivertsen (born January 5, 1950 in Tromsø ) is a Norwegian songwriter who was also active as an actor and is politically active.

Life

He grew up in Bodø and lives there too. He won the Spellemannpris six times , which is something like the Norwegian Grammy , and was awarded the Nordland Culture Prize in 2000 . He was also known through the children's program Labbetuss (roughly German: Trotteltroll ) from NRK television in the 1980s, in which he was an actor . Even after that, he appeared more frequently on television. His song Kjærlighetsvisa (German: love song ) was voted the number 1 summer hit in northern Norway in July 2008. Almost a third of the SMS votes cast were for the song. The vote was jointly organized by the newspaper Avisa Nordland and Radio 3 Bodø .

In 2010, Sivertsen received the award for the best song text from Norsk forening for komponister og tekstforfattere (Norwegian Association for Composers and Lyricists), or NOPA (Norske Populærautorer) for Dødsbra dop (German roughly: drug to die for ), a song with which he critically examines the use of the Norwegian armed forces in Afghanistan . Sivertsen has long been politically active in other areas as well. So he won a seat in the Kommunestyre- og Fylkestingsvalg (for example: municipal and provincial parliamentary elections) in 1987 for the Bodø Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Socialist Left Party Bodø), although he was only 43 on the list.

Discography

solo

  • Halvdan 23 1/3 år (1973)
  • Utsikt minus innsikt gir tilnærmet blindhet fra toppen av pyramiden (1975)
  • Nordaførr (1979)
  • Liv laga (1981)
  • America (1985)
  • Ny og naken (1987)
  • Førr ei dame (1989)
  • Hilsen Halvdan (1991)
  • Kjærlighetslandet (1994)
  • Helt Halvdan (1996)
  • Tvil, håp og kjærlighet (2001)
  • Frelsesearmeens Juleplate (2003)
  • 40+ (2005)
  • Mellom oss (2008)
  • Gjør det så gjerne (2012)

With the guitar cameras

  • Gitarkameratene (1989)
  • Typisk norsk (1990)

Prizes and awards

  • 1982: Spellemannprisen 1981 (German songwriter award ) for the album Liv laga
  • 1985: Bodø kommunes kulturpris (Culture Prize of the Municipality of Bodø)
  • 1986: Spellemannprisen 1985 for the album America
  • 1991: Årets Spellemann (songwriter of the year) at the Spellemannprisen 1990
  • 1991: Spellemannprisen 1990 for the album Typisk norsk
  • 2000: Nordland fylkes Kulturpris (Nordland Culture Prize)
  • 2002: Spellemannprisen 2001 for the album Tvil, håp og kjærlighet
  • 2002: Skjæraasenprisen (after Einar Skjæraasen , Norwegian poet, 1900–1960)
  • 2005: Prøysenprisen (after Alf Prøysen , Norwegian writer and musician, 1914–1970)
  • 2009: Spellemannprisen 2008 for the album Mellom oss
  • 2010: Kardemommestipendiet (German cardamom scholarship, award from the Association of Norwegian Pop Authors NOPA)

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personal data
SURNAME Sivertsen, Halvdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tromso