Kurt Nilsen

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

NO

Active from

1978-09-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

146,152

Total plays

2,324,572

Kurt Nilsen is a son of a truck driver, and used to skip school for several weeks, just to be with his father on the road. He was originally a plumber before he entered the first Norwegian Idol contest in 2003, where he won against all odds. He went on to be a huge success in Norway, with the hit "She's so High". His voice has often been compared to that of Bono from U2. The year after, he competed in the World Idol contest; after performing U2's "Beautiful Day" the Australian judge <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,444x

2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

   · 2006 · cited 28,906x

3. Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators

   · 1989 · cited 18,289x

4. Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

   · 2004 · cited 10,286x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,258x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Erik

Family name

Nilsen

Gender

male

Citizenship

Norway

Place of birth

Bergen

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

Norwegian

Genre

pop music

Instrument

voice

Record label

RCA Records

Official website

kurtnilsen.com

Image

Kurt Nilsen performing at Tusenfryd, Norway.jpg

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