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With his raspy voice, and love songs have Jørn Hoel (62) has been one of Norway’s most famous musicians. The breakthrough started with the monster hit “Have a dream” 32 years ago.
In the summer to the Hotel to play a series of concerts across the country, including with his longtime collaborator Steinar Albrigtsen. But just a few months ago, it was completely empty in the calendar of the 62-year-old.
– Coronapandemien made me on the verge of sad and a little bit of deppa in the month of march, but then came Michael in P4 and saved me with a work week on the radio. When I was in a good mood again, and so I was engaged by the Selmer Property to work on the Locus Skøyen, and then smiled the world again.
< p> “Who the hell do you think you are?” Dagbladet Plus – Down for the countthe Hotel believes that kulturbransjen is in tremendous danger because of the pandemic.
– I’m afraid many young and promising, and, not least, very skilled ringleaders, audio and lysteknikere, disappearing over the other jobs. And since we are those who “howls at least and weakest” we get little help and understanding from the authorities, ” he says.
He thinks that the Culture of Norway is poorly organized.
– We’re all on each of our mounds, and see that other industries and organizations will receive immediate help. The sport is for example organised in a stronger way and get lots of attention and help, while the Culture of Norway is down for the count, ” he says.
– Practicing me constantly
the Hotel says that the time under the corona has been the most important thing that has happened in his life the last year.
– We had been “stuck” at home in a completely new situation. I have well learned the lesson that most in our country, that it is wise to keep distance and to be careful. I struggle very with this myself, but practicing me constantly. I think this will affect us for a long time.
a short while ago stood Hoel on stage at the Fredriksten fortress to be with the “sing-along at the border”, something he has done several times before.
It was nice to be with, but of course very strange that the audience the next was gone, ” he says.
to be able to arrange a “sing-along at the border” have TV2 in years invited ten families and selected audience members to be spectators in a scaled-down version of the program.
– I was all of Norway’s førsteelsker Wanted to escape to Sweden
the Hotel grew up in Tromsø, together with barndomskameraten Steinar Albrigtsen. When they were 13 years old convinced the Hotel with your buddy to be with on a mischievous adventure.
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– I had it always for me, when I was little, that I would “escape” from Tromsø. Once convinced I Stones to that we should take the one truck to my father, and escape to Sweden, ” says Hoel.
After much hesitation was Albrigtsen. The sminket on beard, dressed more “adult” and ran some æresrunder back and forth through the Storgata in Tromsø.
We called it “lode”. It was what the adults did with cars and bikes. The police went back and forth in the streets, and I remember I greeted one of them. Eventually we drove down at the airport café, as the other rånerne did. Here we ate open-face hamburger sandwiches and drank soft drinks, and cost us, before we took some new turns through the city. Eventually we were so tired that we dropped the Sweden trip, ” he continues.
– Strong experience
In December last year rose Hotel to Bosnia under the auspices of SOS children’s villages and TV2, in connection with the Tv2 “Juleaksjon”. Where he visited Srebrenica, the site of one of Europe’s worst genocide since the second world war.
This was a shocking experience, even so many years afterwards.
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In the year it is 25 years since the massacre where 8,000 bosnian boys and men were killed by bosnian serb and serb soldiers in Srebrenica. The town was under united nations protection, and was declared “safe zone”. The visit made a strong impression on the Hotel.
– I can’t figure out that Europe has the conscience to leave this beautiful people and country “go for the alkalis and cold water”. For it is what they do. They are yet in a situation where the country cannot develop itself in line with the rest of Europe. And it is our leaders in Europe who are to blame for this. It is very unfair and sad, ” he says.
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Hoel first love was his first guitar. He can’t get along without espresso in the morning, and like best to wake up in own bed, with the fridge and the family in the immediate vicinity.
– What was the most mischievous you did as a kid?
– On the old people’s home next to our house in Swindon, they had a large aquarium in the Hall. In it swam many fine fish, but I was “hooked” on the two gullfiskene. One day when gamlingene ate dinner I saw my incision. No one noticed me. I was four-five years old, and swollen managed to catch a goldfish. I put it in my pocket, ran home, baked it in the stekepanna and ate it afterwards, ” he says.
Hoel cites Edith Piafs “Non, je ne regrette rien”, “No, I regret nothing” (journ.am.), when Dagbladet asks what he regrets in life. Bad summer memories he rather not.
Bad weather maybe? I am so positive and live in the moment so much and strongly, that I have never allowed negative summer memories to get some place in me, ” he says.
– What is your best sommerminne?
– There are so insanely many, but the honeymoon with my wife Carol, to a vineyard in Provence was unique.
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