{"id":38,"date":"2009-11-25T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T11:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rigg.is\/demo\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T11:41:44","slug":"fridrikomar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/fridrikomar\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridrik \u00d3mar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rigg.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FRIDRIKOMAR_INTRO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271 aligncenter\" title=\"FRIDRIKOMAR_INTRO\" src=\"http:\/\/rigg.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FRIDRIKOMAR_INTRO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rigg is proud to present Fridrik \u00d3mar. Fridrik is born in Iceland and has been succesful artist in his home country selling five gold albums and one platinum in only five years. Fridrik has moved to Stockholm to live his dream and reach his goals, to be performing and working outside of Iceland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fridrik \u00d3mar began playing drums at the age of five but was later asked to sing at a festival for his school, being the first time he sang in front of people besides his mother. Impressing the crowd, he then became winner of many competitions in his hometown and made the decision to be a singer. He has worked with some of most successful artists in\u00a0Iceland and performed with the Icelandic Simphony. In 2006 he released his debut solo album\u00a0Annan dag and was nominated for the Icelandic music awards.<a title=\"Annan dag (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Annan_dag&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">\u00a0<\/a>In March 2006, Fridrik joined forces with fellow\u00a0<a title=\"Iceland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iceland\">Icelandic<\/a>\u00a0singer\u00a0<a title=\"Reg\u00edna \u00d3sk\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reg%C3%ADna_%C3%93sk\">Reg\u00edna \u00d3sk<\/a>\u00a0to form the band\u00a0<a title=\"Eurobandi\u00f0\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurobandi%C3%B0\">Eurobandi\u00f0<\/a>. During 2007, Fridrik came in second place in the\u00a0<a title=\"Iceland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iceland\">Icelandic<\/a>\u00a0finals of the<a title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2007\">Eurovision Song Contest 2007<\/a>\u00a0performing his song &#8220;<a title=\"Eldur (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Eldur&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Eldur<\/a>&#8220;. In\u00a0<a title=\"Belgrade\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belgrade\">Belgrade<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Serbia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2008\">Eurovision Song Contest 2008<\/a>, Fridrik and\u00a0<a title=\"Eurobandi\u00f0\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurobandi%C3%B0\">Eurobandi\u00f0<\/a>\u00a0performed their song &#8220;<a title=\"This Is My Life (Eurobandi\u00f0 song)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/This_Is_My_Life_(Eurobandi%C3%B0_song)\">This Is My Life<\/a>&#8220;. They came in 8th place in the semi-finals and 14th in the finals, being the best\u00a0<a title=\"Iceland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iceland\">Iceland<\/a>\u00a0has done since\u00a0<a title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2003\">Eurovision Song Contest 2003<\/a>.\u00a0Fridrik once again participated in the\u00a0<a title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2009\">Eurovision Song Contest 2009<\/a>\u00a0as a backing-vocalist in the Icelandic entry performed by\u00a0<a title=\"Yohanna\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yohanna\">Yohanna<\/a>. Today Fridrik lives in Stockholm and is working on his next album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Visit Fridrik&#8217;s official homepage here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridrikomar.com\">www.fridrikomar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rigg is proud to present Fridrik \u00d3mar. Fridrik is born in Iceland and has been succesful artist in his home country selling five gold albums and one platinum in only five years. Fridrik has moved to Stockholm to live his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/fridrikomar\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rigg.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}