Óttarr Olaf Proppé (born 7 November 1968) is a former Icelandic politician. He is a musician, actor, former Reykjavík City Councilor (

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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) and former Member of Parliament ( Bright Future

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

). Óttarr was elected chairman of the party in 2015. He was a member of the rock band

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in the years 1988–1994, as well as the lead singer of the

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band Dr. Spock. He also starred in several movies, including '' Sódóma Reykjavík'' from 1992, and '' Nói Albinói'' and '' Angels of the Universe'' from 2000. He made a

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with the band

Pollapönk Pollapönk are an Icelandic punk-inflected children's music band which represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with their song "No Prejudice". History Pollapönk was founded in 2006 by singer Heiðar Örn ...

during the

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, singing "

No Prejudice "No Prejudice" (in Icelandic: Enga fordóma) is a song by Icelandic band Pollapönk. It at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark. The song was initially performed in Icelandic as "Enga fordóma" at the , but was translated into English f ...

" ending up 8th in the semi-final with 61 points, resulting in them progressing to the final, finishing in 15th with 58 points, which was Iceland's best result since

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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