Norway: TIX wins prominent Award “Artist of the year”

Norway: TIX wins prominent Award “Artist of the year”
Saturday, 17 April 2021

  • The Norwegian Eurovision 2021 hopeful, TIX, has been honored with the prestigious award "Artist of the year" .

     

    After years of work in headwinds among critics, TIX from Norway has been widely praised for his efforts as an artist. The prestigious “Artist of the year” (Årets Spellemann) was announced in a pre-recorded part of the coming program “HAIK”.

     

    In the clip we see Andreas Haukeland/TIX as he is surprised in front of his brother Mathias and some of his most dedicated fans. He had no idea what was going on, neither did his brother who read the jury’s announcement.

     

    TIX triumphed in this year's Melodi Grand Prix performing his song "Fallen Angel" securing his way to Rotterdam representing the Scandinavian country at the upocoming Eurovision Song Contest. His entry has received a wide acceptance among fans which has been releflected in the betting odds where he already sees a top 10 placing in the bookies' predictions. 

     

    A Few words for TIX

    Behind the artist name TIX is Andreas Haukeland (27) from Bærum outside of Oslo. He is one of Norway's most popular artists. Andreas says that the TIX character dressed in fur, sunglasses and a headband was named TIX as a result of growing up with the diagnosis Tourette's syndrome. He chose to take ownership of the nickname he was given and made it his artist name. 

    In 2015, he had his first major breakthrough with the song "Sjeiken" which became the party song of the year for the “russ” (Norwegian high school graduates). Despite extensive debate among parents and in the music industry, his first album "DømtogBerømt" made it to the official Norwegian pop chart for70 weeks.  

    In 2018, TIX took a step further on the road to becoming Norway's biggest pop star when he released his song, "Shotgun". He has thenmade a name forhimself as a songwriter in Norwayand abroad with the world hit ‘Sweet but Psycho’ with Ava Max, which became the most played song of the year. 

    Since then, TIX has had seven songs as number 1 on Spotify in Norway. During the 2020, a year dominated by Covid-19, the song "Karantene" (Meaning "Quarantine") became an enormous hit overnight and at the beginning of May he had as many as 11 songs at the top 200 chartin Norway. 

    TIX has been seen both as a participant in Paradise Hotel Norway and as a judge in Norwegian “Idol”. 

    Below follows TIX's Eurovision 2021 entry "Fallen Angel": 

     

    News source/image: Eurovision Youtube channel