Stein Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 singer. He was enormously popular in Norway in the 1970s, nicknamed "Mr. Norsktoppen" for his countless hits topping Norsktoppen

Norsktoppen

Norsktoppen is a musical hit list at NRK Radio, with songs with Norwegian artists. Until 1986, the songs had to be in the Norwegian language. Norsktoppen has aired since 1973. Norsktoppen airs once a week. On Thursday 21 February 2008, it became known to the show host, that Norsktoppen would be...

, an official chart for music in Norwegian.

From the 1960s and through the 1970s he sold more than one million albums, most of his songs being Norwegian translations of classics and famous pop songs of that period. Ingebrigtsen was heavily involved in the Treff-series ("Treff" being a direct Norwegian translation of "hit") which by 1978 finally comprised 21 discs consisting of translations of popular foreign songs. Among his hits were Norwegian versions of "Only You (and You Alone)

Only You (And You Alone)

"Only You " is a pop song composed by Buck Ram. It was recorded most successfully by The Platters, with lead vocals by Tony Williams, in 1955....

" ("Bare du") and "It Never Rains in Southern California

It Never Rains in Southern California

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" ("Solen skinner der du aller helst vil være"). After this, Ingebrigtsen stepped down his own musical activity and only sporadic releases such as Stjernetegn and Soldatenes kortstokk in 1988 and 1989. He continued working as a producer for other musicians. Ingebrigtsen released Edelstein – de 20 beste in 2001.

He is the father of pop-singer Christian Ingebrigtsen

Christian Ingebrigtsen

Christian Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a member of the British-Norwegian pop group A1.-Biography:...

, who was a member of the British

United Kingdom

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 band a1

A1 (band)

A1 are a British-Norwegian boyband. They were originally made up of Mark Read, Ben Adams, Christian Ingebrigtsen and Paul Marazzi. Their first single, "Be the First to Believe", entered the UK singles chart at #6 in early 1999. They had a huge amount of success worldwide and charts with two number...

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Albums Released in Norway

• 1972 – Hello-A (with Inger Lise Rypdal
  Inger Lise Rypdal
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• 1973 – Bare Stein
• 1974 – Tilbake til naturen
• 1975 – Stein
• 1977 – Soloppgang

Albums Released in Sweden

• 1972 – Sjung bort bekymren (with Inger Lise Rypdal)
• 1973 – Bara Stein
• 1975 – Tänk at få den tiden åter
• 1978 – Med säkra kort (Best of)