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– I’m sorry, I just have to respond Jens. A warm welcome to Jan Fredrik Karlsen, he says gracious in mobile.
– Halla! You, now I sit here at Dattera Hagen in Greenland and do a portrait interview with Dagsavisen. And talking about you, actually! Is not that right? We talk about him?
Dagsavisen nodding in agreement on the other side of the cafe table.
– Yes, that’s correct. And when we talk about you, Jens Nesse, and not about Jens Stoltenberg. Yes, because we have visited Jens Stoltenberg also said Karlsen to his longtime partner in management and event company Playroom. The conversation will be short, but jovial and circuits ultimately about Adele’s concert, where Karlsen was present in the courtroom at Telenor Arena. ( “I must have cried at least twice that night, so good was it,” he says afterwards).
– It was a little late yesterday, said Karlsen to Nesse.
– It was so FUN!
Jan Fredrik Karlsen is – his wont, presumably – in fighting mood this morning in May. It is hard to believe that he stood up in the house in Frogner for just 45 minutes ago, he seems almost unsettling awake and alert, and above all, hungry. He orders quickly eggs, bacon, Olden water and Cortado coffee, and before he has set himself properly down at the table, he has both the waiter and photographer to smile and laugh ( “What shall I be serious in the picture? What this kind of interview? “). Generally emerges Jan Fredrik Karlsen that kind that seem to greet each a dawn with excited shouting – though he thus maybe was late up the night before. It appeared in the interview we quite right onto Jens Nesse and Playroom, which he started in 2002, the year before he became the first ever Norwegian jury in ‘Idol’ and then manager for Kurt Nilsen. Jens Nesse joined the company in 2007, and although they now have sold Playroom for a television production group, there are still the two engaged Playroom and have day jobs their there. Otherwise Karlsen tobarns dad part time, Kurt Nilsen manager, and not least: Music Supervisor for the Eurovision Song Contest at NRK. The whole next week he MGP-general full time, because then we will go to the Grand Prix circus in Stockholm. Tuesday is the first delfinale, and Thursday, Norges Agnete Johnsen perform the song “Icebreaker” in delfinale number two. Will she continue to the grand final on Saturday 14 May, the Jan Fredrik Karlsen get some exciting hours in the green room. A wild thought, but Karlsen has probably thought it: Think about Norway actually goes right to the top already first year he is responsible for the music competition? That has not happened since Per Sundnes` days, when Alexander Rybak won in Moscow.
– I think quite frankly we can win, says Jan Fredrik Karlsen in a completely everyday, bland tone.
– Already very first time I heard “Icebreaker”, thought I think that song could win the international final. But now we shall first qualify for the finals, the job must be done. I’m very excited about the circus in Stockholm. Anyone who has been on it before, say that it is absolutely wonderful! I can not wait, although I do not quite know what it is yet. But everyone says that it is totally awesome!
– Who do you think will Agnetes biggest competitors?
– The song from Australia is the shit. Incredibly good! So believes the “all” that Russia is a very strong contender this year, although I am not so convinced. But Australia is I really afraid, says Karlsen, who tonight will be sitting in MGP panel in the “Location Stockholm» at NRK for the last time, to comment on the other contributions. Last Saturday before the panel be seduced by Azerbaijan’s song. All four gave it 12 points.
– There was one thing or another with the song, which took us a bit there and then. We were maybe a little euphoric, hehe. But such will surely happen in Stockholm – one gets carried away by a stage performance by the other artists. We are supposed to also get others to write about Norway and Agnete, we have to sell into the fjords and mountains and plains and everything we are so proud of. For you do not just sell a song to the world, you are selling an entire country, says Karlsen, who believe Agnete will tackle MGP circus well, although she has remained low in recent weeks because of illness.
– Agnete has a winner’s head, and is a real competitor, says Karlsen, referring to Johnsen experience from competitions like “Star Game”, “Shall We Dance” and “MGP jr.”
– We walk tall on the court when we say we travel to Stockholm to win, but that does not mean we take lightly semifinal. We do not control how the other countries of Europe will vote, and if we manage to qualify, says Karlsen. Then he adds:
– But we will do!
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Jan Fredrik Karlsen has left in this gentle, everyday tone. He is known for his subtle body language, happy, high laughter and his enthusiastic utestemme on TV, but here at Dattera Hagen can easily confuse him with an ordinary guy with an ordinary voice. (Okay, he might be a tiny bit loud later in the interview, when he talks about the first time he received a call from Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg). But as yet there is no sign of the sometimes parodied television character “Jan Fredrik Karlsen,” as Jan Fredrik Karlsen might do best self. In addition to “On Thursday evening from Nydalen” from 2009, he played himself in a skit where he goes around and shame roses everything he hears and sees. As whistling coffee lady behind the counter, or mobile ringer for a random guy on the street. He concludes with an unrestrained tribute to the traffic light: “You wait and wait, but when the green light comes on, it’s just a completely overwhelming sense of joy and enthusiasm that appears in the body …! Finally harbors “Jan Fredrik” the psychologist, where he confesses that he is suffering from “a desire to give people positive feedback.”
– Just to be clear: You do not go around roses folk hero gratuitous?
– No, I do not. In the sketch, I played an extreme version of myself. A fictional character, emphasizing Karlsen.
– I do not go around at home and cry. I’m actually a pretty quiet guy. When I’m on TV people see a very compressed version of me. But I get easily excited and intrigued, and then come all the energy. Then I probably pretty intense …
– But it also seems as if you’re nasty to thank people?
– Yes, it’s important to me. I am keen to let everyone know that I am grateful if someone may have done something for me. My kids feel the same way, says Karlsen, who has two children with two different mothers, a son and a daughter. Daughter he has with actress Jane Formoe, as it was finally with the fourth time a few years ago. Karlsen now lives alone in the house at Frogner. He will sell.
– There is little point in having so much space when it’s just me. I’d rather have something smaller, says Karlsen.
– I work very well with both mothers and we have a fixed schedule with the kids. We all have jobs that pays to be flexible and decent to each other.
– Are your kids just as positive as you?
– Yes, they are very positive both! We are positive people, but not in the way that we relate to reality, or see challenges. It is only in me, to think positively. It makes the life easier?
That night in February when Agnete Johnsen won the Norwegian final with “Icebreaker”, was Jan Fredrik Karlsen who enthusiastically presented each låtbidrag. He had even helped to pick them out. The program got the whole 1.3 million viewers, but on Twitter it appeared that some viewers were given an overdose Karlsen. “Can not NRK dampen he where Jan Fredrik Karlsen? He is so tiring to listen to, “tweeted one. “Jan Fredrik Karlsen is probably sponsored by Duracell,” said another. “No e` then right before Jan Fredrik Karlsen eksplodere`. And inside he? Confetti “.
But Jan Fredrik Karlsen has simply not read about himself on Twitter.
– I do not read such comments, so no, there I have not been with me.
– But mark sometimes negativity among people around it that you are so enthusiastic and positive?
– What should I answer this then … I am often enthusiastic, but I’m not there all the time! I am aware that some think it is too much of me. I talk a lot, takes a lot of space, and it shows certainly not all are so much fun. But my goal is not to be liked by everyone all the time. I’m used to that people think things about me, and that’s okay. Sticking one head forward, one must take both sides. But I’m probably most with those who think it’s fun that I am who I am. I know otherwise that MGP now captures many, and NRK really happy and asked if I would continue with this job after Stockholm. I was very clear on that, I want to!
– But “utestemme,” that you?
– Yes, I have, and I have inherited grandpa.
– Jan P. Jansen, who was in NRK?
– Yes. He’s dead now, but he had a kind of voice, and a very fun-filled, distinctive laugh. You know that sound carries so well in water? When grandfather and I sat outside our cabin in Southern and talked, and took us a little anchor dram in the evening, then heard the whole fjord what we said, hahaha! It resounded, somehow …!
Jan Fredrik Karlsen’s father, Rolf “Mulen” Karlsen from Slemmestad Buskerud, has not this utestemmen. There he and his son Jan Fredrik have in common is a strong love of music, and perhaps also the ability to organize and get something to happen around them. Rolf Karlsen has always been an important part of cultural and music scene in Slemmestad, with his band “MULENS Portland Combo.” Almost 100 different musicians have visited the band over the years, and in Jan Fredrik Karlsen’s upbringing flew musicians and out of his childhood home. Parents he was only 18 and 20 years old when they got him, and little Jan Fredrik was involved in everything that happened, gigs and concerts. He carried equipment for the parents good friends Herod False and Tom Mathisen, and at age 14 he began working fixed for them next to the school. After high on Slemmestad, it did not take long before Karlsen got his first job at the record company PolyGram. Later it was Stageway, before he therefore started his own company Playroom. Karlsen has no more formal education and was not the one who was most interested in school. Funnily enough to remember an old teacher at Slemmestad Jan Fredrik as a peaceful, quiet boy in the front row. He took little space, but aroused albeit a stir when he was starring in the fifth class creepy detective film. Karlsen played it cool detective in leather jacket that was to find out why a corpse suddenly fell out of a closet in the staffroom. Detective Karlsen drove into the schoolyard, while all the kids watched. What you could not see in the movie, was that the detective sitting on the lap of the caretaker, so that it looked as if he was driving.
Jan Fredrik Karlsen’s parents have also said in interviews that Jan Fredrik really was very quiet as small.
– The two will always be mom and dad for me, with the respect that is in it. But we are also very good friends, and you can talk about everything. Whatever happened in childhood, even if I did something wrong, so I could get to them and tell them about it. They are always there for me and I’ve always felt seen. It has given me a lot of confidence. I try to transmit the same safety of my children. I hope they know that they can always come to me, no matter what happens.
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Last weekend was Jan Fredrik Karlsen home in Slemmestad to honor his father, who celebrated 35 anniversary of his band. Son Karlsen made a speech for father Karlsen, saying that without him and growing up with his band, he’d never been where he is today. Karlsen had even a band in junior high school, “The White Lies,” in which he played drums. But he realized early on that never came to be the world’s best drummer, and that it was much more enjoyable with everything around. Carrying equipment, arranging, staging. In spite of its long concluded bands career got son Karlsen act with his father’s band this festive evening with an energetic version of “Mustang Sally.”
– I mean, I can not sing! But just “Sally” can I at least get me through. I take it more on energy than on quality singing, if you realize, says Karlsen, who in many TV seasons has been a judge for young singing talents, both on ‘Idol, “” X-Factor “and” Norwegian talents. ” There he was known as an enthusiastic, but sometimes crass slugger at judge table. As when he said to a young idol-sprout: “You sing so dull that I can think of nothing but what I have for dinner.”
At midnight last Saturday was his father’s anniversary party at the cultural center “Sekkefabrikken” abruptly canceled. It was May 1, and suddenly got a whole band and a choir marching in, while they sang and played “The Internationale.” Labor is strong both at home Karlsen and elsewhere in the old industrial site Slemmestad, and it has been written that Jan Fredrik one day be allowed to inherit all his father’s record collection – if only he promises to vote Labor rest of your life.
– No, the truth is more that if I do not match Ap, then comes Dad to make me disinherited, hahaha! The record collection is very unique, so I’m very keen on it, of course. I’m not so keen on that Daddy is going to die, then, but unfortunately life so that it will again happen. But it’s a bit like the father of lage fosheim said: “Creation, if I die …”. If he eventually died! But it is not just the record collection that makes me votes Ap. I can relate myself to social democracy values, taking care of the community, the way we have taken care of our wealth. There are certainly many things I do not agree with Labor in, but I see myself as a Labour man.
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Eggs and bacon breakfast is over, Jan Fredrik Karlsen sits and chuckles a little over a nice picture message from Kurt Nilsen, and we are immediately arrived at one of his favorite stories: The about when Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg suddenly called him in a normal Monday amid a sushi dinner in Bergen in 2009. the Friday before had Karlsen made a kind of spontaneous declaration of love to the then prime minister under “new again”: “Jens Stoltenberg is not a flop. He’s not a bluff. He is a lovely man! “After the bell rang Jens Jan Fredrik to thank, then prime minister invited the Kurt Nilsen concert and since ballet is wearing a 1st of May speaks in Slemmestad and kind messages. Stoltenberg was the one who sent congratulations on sms in June last year, when it became clear that Jan Fredrik Karlsen would become new MGP-general.
– But the following Monday, when the phone rang in the middle of sushi dinner, when I was completely put out. It was hidden ID display, and suddenly a voice says: “It’s Jens Stoltenberg.” I had never met him before and was completely: It is the Prime Minister who is calling me ?! I got up, stood in a virtual “at attention” when I answered, hahaha! laughing Karlsen, and right now, in this moment, he’s pretty loud in here on Dattera Hagen. He is there. But Jan Fredrik Karlsen has obviously not utestemme right up there with the legendary sports commentator Bjørge Lillelien, also from Slemmestad. He who once roared with tears in his voice out in the ether, “Maggie Thatcher: Norway has beaten England in football! We are the best in the world! “
– Is utestemme perhaps also a special characteristic of people from Slemmestad?
– I think not. But Bjorge, yes, haha, “spout”, I think they called him. Bjorge was SLEMMESTAD pride number one. My God, he was wonderful to hear! There was enthusiasm, it!
Music Prince. (Is still in mourning).
Film: Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” (2000).
Book Bob Zmuda biography of my favorite comedian Andy Kaufman.
Food: What I eat most during a year is enough sushi.
Location: Our cabin at Mandal in Southern Norway.
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