Stig van Eijk
Stig André van Eijk (; born 21 March 1981) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. Career Van Eijk is known for his Eurovision participation. In 1999 he won Melodi Grand Prix with the song "Living My Life Without You" thus gaining right to represent Norway at Eurovision that year. On stage he had dancer and singer Belinda Braza. At the Eurovision itself, which was held in Israel, he ended in 14th place, gaining 35 points. He is the first ever black man to represent Norway. The album, Where I Belong, which was released the same year, went platinum (over 30,000 copies) and reached number 6 on the VG-list Top 40 in Norway. In 2000, he was named this year's male artist (Hit awards). In 2001, Stig also made a peace song for his mother country, Colombia. The song, "Constructors of Peace", was recorded with the symphony orchestra of Bogota, and he went there, performing the song on different concerts and television shows. In 2001 Van Eijk opened «B: Underground Club» in Bergen. This club was a live concept with a house band playing reggae, soul and funk. In 2003, he made the song "Once In a Lifetime" that won "Idol" in South Africa, performed by Heinz Winckler. The song was a hit in South Africa and became double platinum (100,000 copies). Stig van Eijk was a long time known as front figure in the reggae band "The Soul Express Orchestra". They released their debut album Time For A Change produced by Isak Strand at Knott Records in 2010. For the last couple of years he has also been working with music in a kindergarten, schools and other culturestages in Norway. In 2013 Stig released his album "Presentation". The album's content reflects all of his influences from different genres experienced through his career, but with the main foundation of reggae and soul. In 2015 Stig and his girlfriend, Beate Helen Thunes, released a new childrenproject called Trollala. Trollala has released music and had various performances around in Norway. Christmas performance "Trollala and Christmas that disappeared" have been played two years in Bergen. He participated again in the Melodi Grand Prix 2023 with the song "Someday", but failed to qualify for the final. Discography Albums 1999: Where I Belong (Mercury Records) 2013: Presentation (Nordic Records) Singles 1999: Living My Life Without You 1999: Breakout 2002: Growin´Pains 2002: Once In a Lifetime 2007: Constructors Of Peace 2010: Come 2010: Beautiful feat. Cesca 2010: En God Dag feat. Akeron 2010: Beautiful feat. Cesca 2011: Let's Make a Change feat. Beate H.Thunes 2011: Live For Today feat. Kingsley Anowi 2012: Never Say Never 2013: Always A Solution 2013: Down To Earth feat. Haisam 2013: No 1. feat DZ Dioniziz. 2014: Gonna make it feat KastAway (U.S) 2014: Ordinary Day 2016: What she said feat Frank Nitt (U.S) 2017: Like a freak feat. 2ugly2hold 2017: Without Faith feat. Nuno Barroso (Portugal) 2017: Vinteren er kommet – Trollala 2017: Words unsaid feat KastAway (U.S) 2018: Faith in