# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kurt-nilsen
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:27:32.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kurt-nilsen"
name: "Kurt Nilsen"
slug: "kurt-nilsen"
description: "Kurt Erik Nilsen is a Norwegian pop/country singer. He won the first season of the Norwegian reality show Idol, which aired on TV 2 in May 2003. He then won a one-off international version of Pop Idol called World Idol on 1 January 2004, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows."
tagline: "Norwegian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt_Nilsen_live_at_Ravnefest_2013.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: "1978-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.49
  momentum:             16.56079854809438
  historical:           20.891728
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/KurtNilsenOfficial"
    handle:    "KurtNilsenOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1386619/"
    handle:    "nm1386619"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/49HPMFWsosCuRf810Ay1Vv"
    handle:    "49HPMFWsosCuRf810Ay1Vv"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kurtnilsen.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كورت نيلسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کرت نیلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "کرت نیلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3"
    title: "クルト・ニルセン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BF%A0%EB%A5%B4%ED%8A%B8_%EB%8B%90%EC%84%BC"
    title: "쿠르트 닐센"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86)"
    title: "Нильсен, Курт (певец)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Nilsen"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%AB%E7%88%BE%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E7%88%BE%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "庫爾特·尼爾森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/69f42d7f-0cac-4210-b6e6-270e286a82b4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234703"
    title: "Kurt Nilsen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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