Vidar Busk
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Vidar Busk
| image = Vidar Busk (211510).jpg
| caption = Vidar Busk at a concert at Cosmopolite in Oslo in April 2016
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1970|5|19}}
| birth_place = Langesund
| origin = Norway
| instrument = Guitar, vocals
| occupation = Musician, composer
| website = {{URL|vidarbusk.no}}
}}
Vidar Busk (born 19 May 1970 in Langesund, Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist, vocalist, composer and record producer within genres blues and soul.{{Cite web |url=http://snl.no/Vidar_Busk |title=Vidar Busk Biografi – SNL.no|date=18 June 2024 }} Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian){{Cite web |url=http://www.mic.no/nmi.nsf/micdoc/art2006050210165575026321 |title=Vidar Busk Biografi – MIC.no}} (in Norwegian)
Career
File:Blues i fjæra 2010 - Vidar Busk.jpg
Busk grew up in Langesund, but went to US when 15 years old, to play with the American blues artist Rock Bottom. He toured the U.S. several years before returning to Norway in 1990, and was awarded Smugetprisen 1994. Later he was awarded two times Spellemannprisen, as This year's artist in 1998 and in the blues/country class in 2003.
Busk played at Moldejazz 2011, 16 years after the formation of His True Believers.{{Cite web |url=http://www.moldejazz.no/2012/index.php?page_id=17045 |title=Vidar Busk & His True Believers – Moldejazz.no}}
Honors
- Smugetprisen 1994
- Bluesprisen 1997, from The Norwegian Blues Union
- Spellemannprisen 1998, as This year's artist
- Spellemannprisen 2003, in the class Blues/country
Discography
=Vidar Busk and His True Believers=
- Stompin Our Feet With Joy (1997) (nyutgitt i 2011)
- I Came Here To Rock (1998)
- Atomic Swing (1999)
- Civilized Life (2021)
=Vidar Busk=
- Venus Texas (2001)
- Love Buzz (2003)
- Starfish (2005)
=Vidar Busk and The Voo Doodz=
- Jookbox Charade (2007)
= Vidar Busk and His Bubble of Trouble =
- Troublecaster (2011)
= Vidar Busk, Daniel Eriksen & Stig Sjostrom =
- Hustle & Flow (2019)
References
{{Portal|Norway|Rock music}}
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External links
- {{Official website}}
- [http://snl.no/Vidar_Busk Vidar Busk Biografi – Store Norske Leksikon SNL.no (in Norwegian)]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCvaSbhQvrU Vidar Busk & His True Believers] on YouTube
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1q0Fg_ymoE The Organ Club ft. Bugge Wesseltoft & Vidar Busk] on YouTube
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{{s-bef | before = Espen Lind}}
{{s-ttl | title = Recipient of the Artist of the year Spellemannprisen | years = 1998}}
{{s-aft | after = Lene Marlin}}
{{s-bef | before = Bjørn Berge}}
{{s-ttl | title = Recipient of the Blues Spellemannprisen | years = 2003}}
{{s-aft | after = Knut Reiersrud}}
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Category:21st-century Norwegian guitarists
Category:21st-century Norwegian male singers
Category:Norwegian male composers
Category:Norwegian blues singers
Category:Norwegian blues guitarists
Category:Norwegian rock guitarists
Category:Norwegian male guitarists
Category:English-language singers from Norway