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Werner “Totto” Osvold (21 June 1941 – 3 June 2023) was a Norwegian radio entertainer.


Personal life

Born in
Ålesund Ålesund () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of Ålesund Municipality. The centre of the town of Ålesund lies on the islands of Hessa, Aspøya, Ålesund, Asp ...
on 21 June 1941, Osvold was married to journalist
Sissel Benneche Osvold Sissel Benneche Osvold (born 4 April 1945) is a Norwegian journalist. She was assigned to the newspaper ''Dagbladet'' for nearly 35 years, and received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2007. Personal life Born in Stavanger on 4 April 1945, Bennec ...
. Their daughter Katja was a vocalist in Life... But How to Live It?


Career

Osvold was assigned with the
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is a Norwegian state-run, government-influenced radio and television public broadcasting company. The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen nat ...
from 1965 to 2006, as entertainer, and from 1986 to 1990 as program editor. He is known from radio shows such as ' and ', and for his cooperation with " Stutum" and with humorist Harald Heide-Steen Jr. Bjørn Sand and Osvold were awarded
Spellemannprisen The Spellemannprisen (also referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards) is a Norwegian music award ceremony presented by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry#Local associations, IFPI Norge and :no:FONO, FONO. It was first awarded i ...
in 1973 for their album ''Stutum Speaking''. Osvold died on 3 June 2023, at the age of 81.


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* * 1941 births 2023 deaths People from Ålesund Norwegian entertainers NRK people Spellemannprisen winners {{norway-bio-stub