# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kjetil-bjerkestrand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:28.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kjetil-bjerkestrand"
name: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
slug: "kjetil-bjerkestrand"
description: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand is a Norwegian keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer known as music arranger for artists like Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Keith Emerson, Ian Hunter, Jon Lord, Ute Lemper and a-ha. As a musician, he has participated in recordings with a-ha, Ray Charles, Ute Lemper, Ian Hunter, Dance with a Stranger, DumDum Boys, Jonas Fjeld Band, Marius Müller, TNT, Arve Tellefsen, Bobbysocks, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Carola Häggkvist and Dee Dee Bridgewater."
tagline: "Norwegian keyboardist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand_Oslo_Jazzfestival_2024_(205803).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.55
  momentum:             0.2097902097902098
  historical:           9.005256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0084809/"
    handle:    "nm0084809"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كچيتيل بچيركيستراند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "شیتل بیرکیستراند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjetil_Bjerkestrand"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c52a84c5-e5c6-4451-8576-0893f8f551d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/781686"
    title: "Kjetil Bjerkestrand"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump