Kjell Elvis, Date of Birth

    

Kjell Elvis

Norwegian singer

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1968

Profession: singer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Kjell Elvis

  • Kjell Henning Bjørnestad (born March 12, 1968), known as Kjell Elvis (or K.
  • Elvis), is a Norwegian professional Elvis impersonator: He is an Elvis look alike and has had plastic surgery to look more like Elvis.
  • He is also a sound alike and has released a couple of albums with Elvis songs. Kjell Elvis was born in Farsund, was raised in Vanse, and currently resides in Lyngdal.
  • While he was in the military in 1988, he started doing some Elvis impersonating.
  • He has had plastic surgery a number of times, to look more like his idol, Elvis Presley, the first one in 1994.
  • In 1997, a media company of Norway, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, showed the documentary Kjell Elvis, about his life as an impersonator.
  • The documentary was also shown in Sweden, Germany and Denmark.He arranged an Elvis Festival in Kristiansand in Norway in 2001, but it was not an economic success.
  • He arranged a new festival in Oslo in 2002.
  • He is (per August 2003) the only full-time professional Elvis impersonator in Scandinavia.He broke the world record for singing Elvis hits, in August 2003, when he sang nonstop for 26 hours, four minutes and 40 seconds.
  • The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation also set a record for themselves, by streaming the whole 26-hour concert on their website.Kjell Elvis is known for his support of his friend Vidar Kleppe, a former MP for the Progress Party, and in 2001 stated that "if Elvis were alive, he would have voted for the Progress Party".
  • He went on to support Kleppe in the Southern Norway List in the 2001 election, and subsequently Kleppe's Democrats party.
  • For the 2013 parliamentary election he however campaigned for the new The Christians party, citing his support for socially conservative Christian policies.

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