Category: KEiiNO Christmas

The Born Christmas Star

The born Christmas Star

As Alexandra Rotan embarks on her first solo Christmas tour, her biggest Christmas wish is about to come true. Her childhood dream has become reality – and with her on the journey she has her great love, Markus.
ALEXANDRA ROTAN (28): singer in KEiiNO, solo artist and TV presenter. Currently on her first solo tour, “Alexandra’s Christmas”, in the run-up to Christmas. Lives in Oslo, where she shares a home with guitarist Markus Maaren Bastøe (30).
Photo spread (page 18): A home for Christmas: Alexandra and her musician boyfriend Markus moved into their first shared apartment in central Oslo during Advent last year. Blue sequin dress from Iben NOK 3499 – £245/$307/295 EUR).
Alexandra Rotan has the kind of smile that automatically lifts the mood in the room. It’s not a fake smile for the camera, but a spontaneous expression of the joy of life, making her curls dance cheerfully over her shoulders. Yes, like the very definition of “jolly”, for lack of a better word.
And it is with this smile that she energetically meets us at the door of her new home in Oslo. The place she and her boyfriend Markus Maaren Bastøe moved into during Advent last year. – where this year she is looking forward to creating new Christmas traditions.
“I have already started planning the small gifts that Markus and I will give each other in a joint Christmas calendar. It is not materialistically motivated, but preferably a compliment on a note or something else that shows that we appreciate each other. It is about what you want your person to wake up to in the run-up to Christmas”, smiles Alexandra, and puts down a coffee cup with powder pink lipstick marks.

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When the sky falls down

Translation of the lyrics of “Når himmelen faller ned”

It snows heavenly correction varnish
Over misspelled summer
And hear the bylarm disappear
During declining floods
We’ve heard that no two snowflakes are alike
And such wonders can be thought for a while
I lean my head all the way back
And get an ice kiss on my mouth
And get an ice kiss

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Når himmelen faller ned

Det snør himmelsk korrekturlakk
Over feilstavet sommer
Og hør bylarmen forsvinner
Under dalende flommer
Vi har hørt at ingen snøfnugg er like
Og sånne under kan en tenke på en stund
Jeg lener hodet helt tilbake
Og får et iskyss på min munn
Og får et iskyss
Det snør stumme stjernesøstre
Fra usynlige munner
Og ør av angrepet fra myldrende lydløse sekunder
I dag inntas jorden av en himmelsk hær
Uten våpen tvinges hele byen i kne
Alt går litt langsommere her på jorden
Når hele himmelen faller ned
Når hele himmelen faller ned
Takk for den unyttige snø
Til bry og til besvær
Nå inntas jorden av en himmelsk hær
Uten bomber og granater
Tvinges hele byen i kne
Alt går litt langsommere her på jorden
Når hele himmelen faller ned
Når hele himmelen faller ned
Hele himmelen
Når hele himmelen faller
Når hele himmelen faller ned
Alt går litt langsommere her på jorden
Når hele himmelen faller ned

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KEiiNO with Tom Hugo, Alexandra Rotan and Fred Buljo, is Friday playing two concerts in Alta. Photo: Pressphoto

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KEiiNO is on their second stop on their intimate Christmas tour, and after that they are rigging up for a party concert.

The tour has the well suiting and witty name, “Christmas Spirit In The Sky” and started out in Tønsberg Wednesday. Today it is the City Scene in Alta.

— Alta constantly delivers and it is always great to come back North. It has been a very strange year so I have hardly been to the north. It is always great to come home, Fred Buljo says to Radio Alta.

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