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For those who don't know: the airbrush portrait shows Kim Larsen, a famous Danish singer often called "anmarks nationalskjald" ("enmark's national herald"), who started his career in the band Gasolin', the most popular band in Denmark during the 1970s, in close competition with Shu-Bi-Dua.

After the breakup of Gasolin', Kim Larsen went on to have a glorious solo career and continued performing even after being diagnosed with cancer. Gradually weakened by the disease, he started using a walking cane and near the end would spend every concert sitting on a chair, but he refused to surrender, even when it became clear, that the cancer would be fatal.

Kim Larsen died on September 30th 2018. His son Hjalmer has since become very popular in his own right, insisting that people judge him as Hjalmer, not as "the son of Kim Larsen" - nevertheless, their voices have very strong similarities and their songs also share an extreme level of catchiness and in the same genre of pop with a twist of rock.

The sentence "This is my life" below the portrait, is the title of a Kim Larsen song, written back in the Gasolin'-days, but remaining in his live catalogue throughout his entire solo career as well.

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Kim Larsen was a remarkable singer with a easily recognizable voice. He was very popular in Norway, and sure also in the rest of Scandinavia, etc. Although I didn't listen to his music every day, I will never forget hits like This is my life, Midt om natten (In The Middle Of The Night), Papirsklip (Paper Clip), Susan Himmelblå (Susan Heaven Blue), Hva gør vi nu, lille du (What Do We Do Now, Little You), etc, etc, etc...

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Notice the lyric of This Is My life is written on the floor behind the cabin. Unfortunately I didn't see this at the show, and could have a picture of it too...

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I've been a big fan of Kim Larsen my entire life, and it's pretty fascinating how popular he was in Norway considering the fact that most people here could probably not even name another Danish artist. I have honestly never even heard about Shu-bi-dua, of course someone that lived in the 70s might know them thought from what all know.
I'm deeply saddened that I could never attend one of his concerts, I remember he performed in Tromsø some years before he died, but you had to be 18 or up to attend.

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Denmark has given more artists than Kim Larsen and Gasoline.. I can easily jump over Aqua and several of their songs but listen to Michael Learns To Rock, Olsen Brothers, Lukas Graham, and Tommy Seebach... That's great music!!

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Aqua-Lene is ours!!! Not that it'd listen to their music anyways, but I'll give the others a listen. I forgot about Olsen Brothers.

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Aqua-Lene grew up in the very small village of Ramnes outside Tønsberg, and when she was on top of her career people from Ramnes was crazy for having a world famous pop artist therefrom

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