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About Ivar Skippervold
- Ivar Skippervold (born 14 March 1949) is a Norwegian singer and musician. He hails from Oslo, but moved to Lillesand as an adult.
- He took up music at an early age, and his first self-made music was protest songs.
- He became Christian out of a "religious yearning", and his protest songs got a Christian tinge.
- His first solo record, Hiroshima og spurven, came in 1975.
- He had already, in 1972, formed the gospel group Frisk Luft together with Rune Larsen, Arnold Børud and Kjell Fjalsett.
- The group formed by coincidence when Larsen and Børud, performing at Hedmarktoppen, spotted Fjalsett and Skippervold in the audience and invited them onto the stage.
- Frisk Luft released two LPs in the 1970s, and participated in a television show named Gospelkveld ('Gospel Evening').
- Frisk Luft was said to be the first Christian supergroup in Norway.In the mid-1980s, he was a part of the musical duo Skipper Schei together with Hans Erik Schei.
- They duo staged a show called "Skipper Schei drar vest".
- Skippervold also ran a small publishing house Skippers Forlag, and worked at the musical school in Lillesand.
- In the 1990s, Skippervold made two advent television shows for children, so-called "advent calendars" with 24 episodes for each day in December.
- Julestua was aired on TVNorge in 1989 with Skippervold and Trygve Wikstøl, and På låven followed in 1992 on TV 2.
- His song Flere slike dager became the opening song of the popular TVNorge show Reisesjekken.
- He also made bible-inspired plays for release on cassette, As well as two musicals in 1995, 1997 and 2000.
- The three musicals were about Ansgar, Saint Nicholas and Jesus respectively.
- He also continued releasing albums, amassing about 40 releases.
- Also, Frisk Luft made a public comeback in 1998, and released the record Lifetime Friends in 2000.
- In 2004 they followed with I'll Never Find Another You.
- The group performs live every now and then. He has been called the "Thorbjørn Egner of church music".
- In 2001, he was awarded the Bible Prize of Norway.
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