Jonas Alaska (born 3 April 1988), real name Jonas Aslaksen, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. He won a

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award in 2012.

Biography

Hailing from

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, Aslaksen studied at the

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from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 he scored his first hit single with "In the Backseat" and released his first solo album called ''Jonas Alaska''. The album peaked at 5th on ''

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'', with 24 charting weeks in total. Alaska was nominated for three

awards in 2012—"male artist of the year", "songwriter of the year" and "newcomer of the year"—winning the latter. In March 2013 he released his second album ''If Only As A Ghost'', produced by Kjartan Kristiansen, which immediately entered 4th spot on the ''VG-lista'' chart. The review in the newspaper '' VG'' was however negative, with a dice throw of 3 (out of 6), elaborating about the song arrangements: "They have no uniqueness, but bear more of a mark that Alaska wants to be a much older man than he actually is. An older, well-read and American man". '' Universitas'' labelled most of the album "forgettable". ''

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'' printed a positive review, a dice throw of 5, as the reviewer called Alaska "brilliant pop music". The same score was found in ''

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''. In 2015 his third studio album, ''Younger'' was published by

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, the sound differing from the previous as the genre changed from blues or acoustic to

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. The reviews were chiefly positive, with full score given by ''Gaffa'' and a dice throw of 5 issued by several newspapers. '' Vårt Land'' did however call the album "dangerously close on bordering cliché". Alaska did however release acoustic versions of ''Younger – Side 1'' and ''Younger – Side 2'' in 2015. He followed with several albums; ''Fear Is A Demon'' (2017), ''Live at Parkteatret 2016'' (2018), ''Roof Came Down'' (2020) and ''Girl'' (2021). Jonas Alaska

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alaska, Jonas 1988 births Living people People from Åmli Norwegian expatriates in England 20th-century Norwegian singers 21st-century Norwegian singers Norwegian male singers