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A SONG!

    Hi guys! This is an easy song to practise English. Maybe you know it. It's called “Fairytale”, by Alexander Rybak. Here you've got the lyrics:

FAIRYTALE (ALEXANDER RYBAK)

Years ago when I was younger

I kind of liked a girl I knew

She was mine and we were sweethearts

That was then, but then it's true

I'm in love with a fairytale even though it hurts

'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind I'm already cursed

Every day we started fighting

Every night we fell in love

No one else could make me sadder

But no one else could lift me high above

I don't know what I was doing

When suddenly we fell apart

Nowadays I cannot find her

But when I do we'll get a brand new start

I'm in love with a fairytale even though it hurts

'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind I'm already cursed

She's a fairytale, yeah, even though it hurts

'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind, I'm already cursed

    Here you can listen to the song: 

    This song talks about the author and his relationship with a girl when he was younger, but they're not together anymore.

Alexander Rybak

    Alexander Rybak (born May 13, 1986) is the 25-year-old violinist and singer who surprised Europe when he won for Norway at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia. “Fairytale”, a song that he wrote and composed, gained the most votes in any Eurovision Song Contest, by scoring 387 points from the 42 participating countries. “Fairytale” received votes from all the participating countries (except Norway, which was not allowed to vote for itself). Rybak broke the previous record of 292 points scored by Lordi in 2006. The song was inspired by Norwegian folk music and was performed together with the modern folk dance company Frikar.

    His parents are Natalia Valentinovna Rybak, a classical pianist, and Igor Alexandrovich Rybak, a well-known classical violinist. Alexander Rybak says: “I always liked to entertain and somehow that is my vocation”. Rybak has been a student at the Barrat Due Institute of Music in Oslo since the age of 10. Rybak speaks Norwegian, Russian and English fluently, and has performed songs in all three languages. 

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By: Sandra Camacho