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– the Title “You can count on me” is an ironic approach to the feeling of being “tricked” by people in the industry. It is all about to rely on themselves, ” says Ole Evenrud.
At the end of the 80’s, he was supposed to be launched abroad and become an international star. There was none of that.
Catchy and honest
Ole Jacob Evenrud (57) made his debut as Joe In’the Dole in 1982 with singlen “The va’not my fault”. The 20-year-old artist from Halden was immediately a star, and had through the 80’s a number of hits.
Norwegian-language pop songs with tenåringsappell struck.
POPULAR “IDOL”-JUDGE: Ole Evendrud together with Jorun Stiansen, Cindy Hovde, Alejandro Fuentes, Eva Weel Skram, Tone Damli Aaberge and Christian Stenseng in 2005 in Birmingham. Photo: Anders Grønneberg Show more
Ole I’dole wrote catchy and honest songs such as “If I were God”, “Love again”, “Ayatollah” and “one and One is two”.
Far out in the country
– I thrive best outside the limelight, has been under the radar for several years now. I have not shown to me on tv after I was the judge in “Stjernekamp” on NRK in 2012. Before this it was a few rounds of “Idol”, says Evenrud to the Newspaper.
With the right to believe
Telefonlinja is somewhat frail, and he explains.
Right now I’m lying in the hammock and looking out on the Iddefjord and Sweden on the other side, the country we don’t get to visit. Is far looking at in the hutaheiti now, with partial poor telefondekning. Live and have my studio here, ” says Evenrud.
Autobiographical song
Although Ole Evenrud has a more anonymous life, so he lies not just in the hammock and sucking on the “old toffees and previous successes”. Now he has just released a new song, the autobiographical “You can trust me”.
– It is a song about the fight for his career in the 80’s, with a slanted glance.
MUSIC video 1984: A hefty badestampscene from the recording of the video for the single “Sayonara”. Photo: Inge Ove Tysnes Show more
– I’m not selvhøytidelig. The song is all about to rely on themselves. A piece of late 80’s, I was launched in the foreign countries, England and the united STATES, and become an international star.
“Came slukkøret home”
He describes the “You can trust me” as a number “Kodak pictures” from 30 years back, a poprocker that can remind about his major musical influences as Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. Evenrud know well the industry from most sides, not least as a talent scout in PolyGram.
– Finally, I can look people in the eyes
But Ole I’Dole was never a big pop star abroad.
“After two years of thought, he came slukkøret home”, he sings about himself. But disappeared, was he jack? – “no, not I”, he sings on.
” I went to London in 1986. Had contacts, and the web was extended. The year after I went to New York city. Came home in 1989, a great part of the experience richer, but not as an international star. So, I spent a year to find myself again. I was a songwriter and producer, says Evenrud, who in the 90s moved to Stockholm.
– the family father on the fjord
But despite having worked with figures such as Andy Scott from The Sweet, Geoff like castle howard was from the band Asia and produsentlegenden Clive Davis at Arista, stranded the international artistkarrieren. The album “One Size Fits All” never came out in the united STATES.
HOT KID: Ole I’Dole was a hot kid in the 80’s. Photo: Dagbladet archive View more
In the almost 20 years he has driven Hitsville Studio by Iddefjord outside Halden.
Where he lives together with his wife Veslemøy, the former bassist in The Tuesday. They have two children aged 11 and 17 years.
– the Song’s about the only thing you can, to rely on themselves. So I have always done and do still. I have a good life, thrive outside lyskasterne. Create songs, produce and have three-four bands, various people I play with. But now it’s quiet, laid off from my own business, ” he says.
– I have full control
Ole Evenrud says he has a lot of the music landscape. He shall forward drop multiple samples at the things he has done in the last year – and maybe he collects them on a vinyl this autumn, or next year.
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– It determines the I myself, ” he says, and adds:
I have full control over his career. I am my own platedirektør, manager, booking agent, production manager, musician and artist. I’m working with different people, and do mostly what I want. A nice and good life, “he says convincingly from a telephone occasionally on the verge of collapse”.
“sing-along on the border”
Speaking of word games and grenseassosiasjoner. Ole Evenrud is also the man behind TV 2-the success of “sing-along at the border”, which was first time submitted 2007. The program runs from the Fredriksten fortress in Halden throughout the summer.
wonderful vocalist: Sandra Lyng Haugen and Ole Evenrud at the Universal Music party- behind, we look as far as Jan Fredrik Karlsen. Photo: Dagbladet Show more
– I gave me two years ago, and sold me out.
I worked with the “sing-along on the border” in 12 years. I thought it was enough, and left the ship to Trond Lie, who I have worked with in many years. I have so much else I want to do, but I do it in my pace. But I have no need or ambition to be a pop star again, ” he says from the hammock.
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