– I receive it with bottomless sorrow, but also with gratitude for everything he has been in my life. That’s what the writer Ketil Bjørnstad says about his good friend and colleague, Ole Paus, having passed away. The popular singer fell asleep peacefully on Monday night after a short illness. – Experiencing that a person suffers a serious stroke is a great strain, especially for the person who has suffered the stroke. I can probably say that it has been three painful months, says Bjørnstad. GOOD FRIENDS: Ole Paus and Ketil Bjørnstad have been good friends and partners since their youth. Photo: NTB Bjørnstad and Ole Paus Paus became both good friends and collaborators in 1971. Then Paus participated in Bjørnstad’s musical project Leve Patagonia, where he himself had the role of Hans Jæger. Among their other collaborative projects is the album Blues for Pyttsan Jespersen’s next of kin. – The voice and the tone will be missed – We became very close friends very quickly, and we started working together and traveling together. Both concerts, making music and after every book together. He has been a gift in my life until the very end. With his distinctive voice, playful use of language and simple melodies, Ole Paus has been embraced by a wide audience since the 70s. Bjørnstad honors his now deceased friend, and describes Paus as someone who “everyone listened to”, and who “everyone learned from”, regardless of age. – Many will say that Norway will not be quite the same without him, and it will be strange to live without him. He has been a guardian for the whole country, but on a day like this I would perhaps emphasize what a wonderful love poet he was, first and foremost, says Bjørnstad. Eggum: – My biggest inspiration Jan Eggum says that he played at the same festival as Paus in Haugesund in 1972. WAS INSPIRED: Jan Eggum during a performance in 2020. – It was just a star for me at that festival in 1972. I felt quite inferior, but was a good number of years younger. I saw him as a huge inspiration. Eggum says that he was also a little frightened by how good Paus was on his first album “Der ute – der inne” in 1970. – It hit me in the face, I was 18 years old and thought that I will never get this to. So I just had to sharpen up something colossal to be half as good as Ole Paus. So he has been my biggest inspiration. STAR MEETING: Morten Abel and Ole Paus were both on Hver vag we met on TV 2 in 2015. Photo: ANETTE KARLSEN/VIDAR RUUD Morten Abel says that he has known Ole Paus for 10-11 years and got to know Paus very well on “Every time we meet” on TV 2. – We bonded and had a very close relationship. He taught me an incredible amount about life and a little about working methods. And then I have a strong sense that he has a sharp and critical view of the society around him. An important artist. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre also remembers Ole Paus. – Ole Paus has been a popular singer throughout his long life – with great musicality, commitment and humor in many forms of expression, from revues to his own releases and collaborations with many artists in Norwegian cultural life. The voice and tone will be missed, says Støre. – A thousand artists news’s cultural commentator Inger Merete Hobbelstad says Ole Paus was a mixture of ironic and heartfelt, i.e. keenly engaged and at the same time warm. Photo: INA STRØM – He was a multi-talented artist, and obviously had an enormous number of ideas that just had to get out, and that’s how many parts of the audience got to know him. THE PRIME MINISTER: Jonas Gahr Støre, pictured here in Dubai earlier in December. Photo: Milana Knezevic / Milana Knežević
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