Kurt Nilsen

Kurt Nilsen was a plumber by trade as well as the singer of the promising young rock-band in his local Bergen, Norway. That’s, until his existence was turned ugly from the crazy roller coaster known as actuality TV. Nilsen’s music group, Breed, released several singles before changing its name to Fenrik Street and issuing the DROP Right here EP. But which was before 2002, and his involvement within the Norwegian edition from the smash strike TV talent competition Pop Idol. The golden-throated, gap-toothed Nilsen was victorious on the display, and his edition of the previously small Tal Bachman ditty “She’s Therefore High” proceeded to go ten-times platinum in Norway, getting the country’s biggest-selling solitary ever. BMG Norway adopted up using the hasty full-length I before bustling Nilsen off to London for Xmas 2003’s Globe Idol competition. The display pitted 11 Idol winners from around the world against each other inside a pop actuality showdown of preposterous percentage and questionable transfer. American admittance Kelly Clarkson as well as the U.K.’s Will Adolescent were heavily preferred; Nilsen was regarded as a dark-horse champion at greatest. But his anthemic efficiency of U2’s “Gorgeous Day” made a large impression within the -panel of international Most judges, and abruptly the Scandinavian performing feeling, good-natured plumber, dad of two, and ex-frontman of the rousing, apparently Hooters-influenced rock and roll & roll music group had been bandied about being a spoiler with the just offshore betting parlors. Affirmed, on New Year’s Time 2004 Nilsen tallied 106 votes to Clarkson’s 97 away from a feasible 112 to collect the planet Idol title and present an incredible number of Kurt-loving Norwegians a later Xmas present.