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Tor Endresen at a concert in 2007 in Laksevåg

Tor Lars Oskar Endresen (born June 15, 1959 in Bergen ) is a Norwegian singer.

Endresen started playing guitar at the age of thirteen and performed with a local band at the age of eighteen. He became known in the early 1990s in Rune Larsen's pop music series Lollipop at NRK , where he appeared in thirty episodes as a singing bartender . He has worked on other NRK TV programs such as Beat for beat , Momarkedet , Absolutt norsk and Kjempesjansen .

Since 1987 he has participated in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix , where he was among the first places several times. With the title San Francisco he took first place in 1997 and represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest . This participation remained without points and he was last together with Portugal .

In 1994 he played the leading role in the musical Ain't Misbehavin ' in Bergen . In 2002 he appeared in the revue Da Bjørgvin blev by , in 2005 in the musical Chess . He has also worked with jazz musicians like Pål Thowsen and with Arne Myksvol's band Salex .

Discography

• Pål Thowsen: Call Me Stranger with Ole Edvard Antonsen , Janne Schaffer and Svein Dag Hauge , 1986
• Pål Thowsen: Life Goes On with Brynjar Hoff and Ketil Bjerkestrand , 1989
• Lollipop , 1989
• Lollipop 2 , 1990
• Solo , 1991
• Lollipop Jukebox , 1991
• Gate Endresen II , 1992
• The best of Lollipop , 1995
• Sanger , 1996
• Nære ting with Rune Larsen, 1998
• Tarzan , soundtrack, 1999
• Blue , 2000
• Trippel Gate , 2001
• Julen i våre hjerter , 2001
• Retrofeelia with Are Selheim , 2004
• Now And Forever , 2005

Web links

• Tor Endresen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Tor Endresen at Discogs (English)