Knut T. Storbukås (born 23 April 1943), more commonly known by his stage name, Sputnik, is a musician and truck driver from
Bostrak
Bostrak or Bustrak is a village in Drangedal Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located near the western shore of the lake Bjorvann in the Tørdal area of northern Drangedal. The village of Bø i Tørdal lies about to the n ...
in the village of
Tørdal
Tørdal is a valley and parish that makes up the northern third of Drangedal Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. Tørdal is centered around the village of Bø where the Tørdal Church is located. Another village in the valley is Bustrak. ...
which is in the municipality of
Drangedal
Drangedal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Prestestranda. Other villages in Drangedal include Bø i Tørdal, ...
,
Telemark
Telemark () is a Counties of Norway, county and a current electoral district in Norway. Telemark borders the counties of Vestfold, Buskerud, Vestland, Rogaland and Agder. In 2020, Telemark merged with the county of Vestfold to form the county o ...
. His most well known songs are ''Skilles Johanne'' () og ''Lukk opp din hjertedør''
Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)
"Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)" (sometimes seen as "And Let the Sun Shine In") is a popular song written by Stuart Hamblen and first published in 1954.
The original version was by the Cowboy Church Sunday School and was a hit in ...
.
In only a few years, Storbukås sold more than one million
cassettes, and set records in a series of places where he performed. He was rated as artist of the year in Norway in 1990, and in the fall of 1993 he got into the
Guinness Book of World Records
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when he performed thirty-six times in locations from
Mandal
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative c ...
in the south to
Tromsø
Tromsø is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The city is located on the is ...
in the north in only 72 hours.
During
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in t ...
in 1990, he was in the
Soviet Union
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and partook in a music video in the
Red Square
Red Square ( rus, Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad', p=ˈkrasnəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ) is one of the oldest and largest town square, squares in Moscow, Russia. It is located in Moscow's historic centre, along the eastern walls of ...
in
Moscow
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. The video was later shown in its entirety in
Norwegian on
Dagsrevyen
''Dagsrevyen'' (English: ''The Daily Review'') is the daily evening news programme for the Norwegian television channel NRK1, the main channel of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), broadcast at 7 pm. In 2007, the programme started air ...
. Sputnik also contributed to the show during the opening of
TV2 in
Grieghallen
Grieg Hall () is a 1,500 seat concert hall located on Edvard Griegs' square in Bergen, Norway, Bergen, Norway.
Grieghallen was named in honor of Bergen-born composer Edvard Grieg, who served as music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ...
in the fall of 1992, in a duet with
Kjell Bækkelund
Kjell Bækkelund (6 May 1930 – 13 May 2004) was a Norwegian classical pianist.
Biography
Bækkelund was born in Oslo, Norway. He was the son of Martin Bækkelund (1903–66) and Rallik Antonette Hansen (1904–94). He was a student at the ...
.
He has also performed in Sweden, Denmark, the United States,
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
,
Zanzibar
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, Spain and around all of Norway.
Sputnik has a large collection of
silver, gold, diamond, and platinum records in his own ''Sputnik Museum''.
Discography
Albums
* ''Sputnik 1'' (1986)
* ''Sputnik 2'' (1986)
* ''Sputnik 3'' (1987)
* ''Sputnik 4'' (1988)
* ''Sputnik 5'' (1989)
* ''Romjulsmusikken til Sputnik'' (1989)
* ''Sputnik 6'' (1990)
* ''Sputnik 7'' (1991)
* ''Den store festkassetten'' (1991)
* ''Sputnik 8'' (1992)
* ''Bedehusmusikken til Sputnik'' (1993)
* ''Sputnik 9'' (1994)
* ''Sputnik 10'' (1995)
* ''Gull og grønne skoger'' (1996)
* ''Lykkelandet Zanzibar'' (1997)
* ''Sputnik 11'' (2001)
* ''Sputnik 12'' (2001)
* ''Sputnik 13'' (2003)
* ''Sputnik 20'' (2006)
* ''Det er vanskelig å være beskjeden'' (2007)
* ''50 år på veien'' (2009)
External links
Sputnik's Website
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1943 births
Living people
People from Drangedal
Norwegian male singers
Norwegian musicians