Biography
Alexander Rybak is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer, songwriter, violinist, pianist, composer and actor. Born on 13 May 1986 in Minsk, he moved to Norway with his family as a child and trained at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.
Rybak represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009, winning with his song 'Fairytale'. He has voiced the character Hiccup in the Norwegian dubs of the How to Train Your Dragon films and wrote and performed the song 'Into a Fantasy' for the soundtrack of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), included in European and Slavic versions. He appeared as himself in the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.
