Ole Paus

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Birth name Ole Christian Paus Role Balladeer Instruments Vocals, guitar Spouse Benedicte Paus		Years active 1970- Movies Upperdog Name Ole Paus


Born 9 February 1947Oslo, Norway ( 1947-02-09 ) Occupation(s) Musician, singer-songwriter, writer Albums To rustne herrer, Salmer pa veien hjem, Paus-Posten Children Marcus Paus, Madeleine Heide Paus, Sole Christian Paus, Heide Katharina Paus Similar People Jonas Fjeld, Ketil Bjornstad, Anita Skorgan, Morten Abel, Magnus Gronneberg Profiles Facebook

Ole Paus (born 9 February 1947; full name Ole Christian Paus) is a Norwegian troubadour in the Swedish-Norwegian ballad tradition, an author, a poet, and an actor. He is widely considered one of Norway's most popular singer-songwriters.

Background

He is the son of General Ole Otto Paus and a member of the Paus family. He is the father of composer Marcus Paus.

Work

Ole Paus debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1970 and as an author the following year, after he was discovered by Alf Cranner and Alf Prøysen, respectively. He was one of the central figures of the so-called visebølgen i Norge, i.e. troubadours in the tradition of Evert Taube, Cornelis Vreeswijk and others.

Books

Tekster fra en trapp (1971)

Det går en narr gjennom byen med ringlende bjeller (1974)

Endelig alene (1984)

Milunia (1985)

Hjemmevant utenfor (1994)

Reisen til Gallia (1998) (with Ketil Bjørnstad)

Kjære Kongen (2002)

Blomstene ved Amras (2004)

Isengaard (2006)

Reviews

Ikke gjør som mora di sier (1987)

For fattig og rik (1988)

Norge mitt Norge (1991)

Sammen igjen (1992)

Albums

(For peak charting positions, see NorwegianCharts.com)

Der ute - der inne (1970)

Garman (1972)

Blues for Pyttsan Jespersens pårørende (1973)

Ole Bull Show (with Gunnar Bull Gundersen) (1973)

Zarepta (1974)

Lise Madsen, Moses og de andre (with Ketil Bjørnstad) (1975)

I anstendighetens navn (1976)

Paus-posten (1977)

Nye Paus-posten (1977)

Sjikaner i utvalg (1978)

Kjellersanger (1979)

Noen der oppe (1982)

Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun (with Ketil Bjørnstad) (1982)

Svarte ringer (1982)

Grensevakt (1984)

Muggen manna (1986)

Stjerner i rennesteinen (1989)

Salmer på veien hjem (with Kari Bremnes og Mari Boine)(1991)

Biggles' testamente (1992)

Mitt lille land (1994)

Hva hjertet ser (1995)

Stopp pressen! Det grøvste fra Paus-posten (1995)

To Rustne Herrer (with Jonas Fjeld) (1996)

Pausposten Extra! (1996)

Det begynner å bli et liv(1998)

Damebesøk (with Jonas Fjeld) (1998)

Den velsignede (2000)

Kildens bredd (with Ketil Bjørnstad) (2002)

Tolv Rustne Strenger (with Jonas Fjeld) (2003)

En bøtte med lys (2004)

Sanger fra et hvitmalt gjerde i sjelen (2005)

Hellige natt - Jul i Skippergata (2006)

Den Store Norske Sangboka (2007)

Paus synger Paus (2009)

Dugnad for Haiti – Live fra Operaen (2010), with other artists

Mitt lille land (2011), with other artists

20 av de beste sangene, vol 1 (2013)

Avslutningen (2013)

Sanger fra gutterommet (2016)

Songs

"I en sofa fra IKEA"

"Innerst i sjelen"

"Mitt lille land" (Peaked at #4 in VG-lista Norwegian Singles Chart)

Opera

Heksene (2007) (libretto)

Filmography

Inntrengeren, (1974) – history of Ole Paus in a TV-series Et lite grøss?

Solstreif, (1980) - as author

De blå ulvene as guest (1993)

Bikinisesongen as Robert (1994)

Upperdog as Axel's father (2009)

TV Specials host

På tide med Ole Paus - TV series presenter (1992–1993, produced by Lasse Halberg and Petter Wallace on TV3)

Hjemme hos Paus - TV series presenter with Elsa Lystad (1994, produced by Petter Wallace on TV2)

Ute med Paus TV series presenter (1995 produced by Petter Wallace on TV2)

Awards

Spellemannprisen, Årets Viseplate (This Year's Folk Song Album), 1976

Gammleng-prisen, 1995

Spellemannprisen, Juryens Hederspris (The Jury's Honorary Award), 1998

Lytterprisen, 1999

Alf Prøysens Ærespris, 2001,

Spellemannsprisen, Årets Spellemann (This Year's Spellemann), 2013

References

Ole Paus Wikipedia

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