Александр Рыбак. Фото photo.i.ua

Article published on www.segodnya.ua, April 24 2012, 8:00

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Found and translated by Zhanna Sergueeva. English revision by Tessa Lande.

Alexander has a sea of female fans, but he meets his girl 2-3 times a year.

The winner of “Eurovision-2009″ 25-year-old Alexander Rybak has his beloved one, but he meets her extremely rare. And it is not even because of the singer’s busy tour schedule, but due to the fact that his girlfriend is constantly on the go.

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Article published on gaganews.com.ua, April 23 2012, 8:29

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Found by Ulli Cologne. Translated by Zhanna Sergueeva. English revision by Lillian Llewellyn

Alexander Rybak came to Kiev for a few days to shoot the video for the song, “The Arrow of Cupid.” Alexander Filatovich is the director of the video .

What the new song is about and why the singer chose the Ukrainian director, we asked the singer personally.

- My new video is for the song ‘The Arrow of Cupid’. The song is about the fact that a person often is lonely even if he looks joyful and happy.

- Why did you choose Ukrainian director Alexander Filatovich for your new video?
- I really like his work. We already made the video for the song “Europe’s Skies” together and it is very easy to work with him, he doesn’t get ‘star fever’. He’s like a friend, and it is not rare in this world and in this business. And in addition he’s a very good director.
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Article published at  http://kp.ua/ on April 23, 2012

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Written by Ekaterina Kamenskaya. Photo by Dmitry Nikonorov.

Found by Ulli Cologne, translated by Zhanna Sergueeva, english revision by Tessa Lande.

While filming at the roof the winner of “Eurovision-2009″ got tested his fear of hight. Photo by Dmitry Nikonorov.

The winner of “Eurovision-2009″ has come to unite hearts and destinies.

Women’s favorite Alexander Rybak worked the whole weekend – he was shooting video for the song “The Arrow of Cupid.” For this purpose he came especially from Oslo to Kiev for one day.

On Sunday traffic jams emerged in the city now and then: it was curious motorists, passersby and fans surrounded the places for shooting. And considering that there were several locations of new video’s shooting and a film crew traveled all over the city, unexpected congestions occurred across all over the Ukrainian capital.

Rybak himself, paying attention to nobody, was occupied with sweat with love affairs . In the plot of the video the artist is a Cupid who appears from nowhere and does everything possible to make lovers find each other, and tell each other the important words. At the same time the Cupid himself is invisible and alone. To make the image complete the video director Alexander Filatovich put angel wings on Alexander and even forced him to sing while standing on the roof of the hotel “Riviera on Podol”. By the way, the building’s administration didn’t like such an idea – safety first. So the film crew had to take full responsibility in case if anything would happen. Fortunately the shooting on the attic went without any incidents.

- I like the idea of the video, at the same time we have a very small budget, – the artist admitted. – I do not need multi-million dollar special effects. Much more pleasant to shoot a video with an interesting storyline and the best team.

How many couples will Amur-Rybak make, and will he find his soul mate – viewers will see that very soon.

Article published at  Klubas.lt on April 8, 2012

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Found by Zhanna Sergueeva, translated by Jolanta Paulite.

A fan of A.Rybak invaded the stage, and had to be restraint by the security guards.

On the Easter evening the final match of LNK project “Voice of Lithuania” ended with unexpected incident – in the main entertainment arena security guards have had to restrain one viewer, who invaded the stage during Alexander Rybak’s concert.

The Belarusian origin and representative of Norway, who triumphed a few years ago in Eurovision, become the first sweetie to performe in the Voice of Lithuania – The project organizers promise, that in the final fights every weekend will participate a bright stars of popular music.

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Written by Kragerø Jentekor/Maren Olava Ask Knutsen

Found by Venche Mellemstrand. English translation by Tessa Lande. English revision by Lillian Llewellyn

Friday 17th of February at 17:00 we arrived in the church for rehearsal. After several weeks of practicing it was finally time for the weekend we all had been longing for. We were curious about how it would be, how Alexander Rybak was as a person, and his opinion of our choir. Rybak was delayed due to the traffic, and we therefore had time to calm down, warm up both body and voice, and in addition check through our songs. When the time was 19:30, the door opened and Alexander Rybak wandered in. “Hello!” he said and waved to us.

As most girls we giggled a bit in the beginning, but Alexander is a person who is not shy at all, and after a while it felt like we had known each other for quite a while. Several times during the first rehearsal on Friday evening he said “You are really clever!”, “This will be good!” and “Wow, I get speechless!”. After about one hour with rehearsing, we were done for the evening, and we went for pizza in the sacristy.” All the girls and Rybak! There was a good atmosphere and Alexander made sure that he spoke to all of us. He is really a guy who involves everyone.

On Saturday morning it was time for rehearsing again, and we kept on for many hours only with breaks for food, buns and soda. Alexander seemed very impressed by our choir, and our clever conductor Robert! Later that evening, several of the girls in the choir, took Alexander and the pianist Jan for a walk around the city of Kragerø, to show them the city we live in. At the end we all concluded with that Kragerø is a small, cosy town with some special names on the places here. (F.ex they found the name on the little bay in the middle of the city, “The Appendix”, funny.)

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1. Rybak charmed at Sandvika

Article published on www.budstikka.no 14.4.2012.

Written by Olav Brekke Mathisen. Photos by Ulf Hansen. Link to original article here.

Found by Laila Ulvseth. Translation by Marianne Saietz

Photo: Big charmer and Young Strings: Alexander Rybak, the Vivaldiorchestra and Bærum Young Strings, celebrated the 80-years anniversaryconcert of the last mentioned at Bærum Culturehouse Saturday evening. ( Ulf Hansen )

Rybak charmed at Sandvika

Alexander Rybak , Bærum Young Strings and the Vivaldi-orchestra together at the Culturehouse.

” Let me show you, what we are doing at Barrat Due”  – Alexander Rybak said and took off with “The bee” by Francois Schubert, at great pleasure from the audience. At Bærum Culturehouse, it was full house up to the galleries, when MGP-winner Rybak, the Vivaldiorchestra and Bærum Young Strings were together at stage.

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