Øyvind Rauset

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Øyvind Rauset (born October 3, 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian artist, musician and composer.

Rauset is the son of Per Rauset from Gloppen and Mary Lyngmo from Rossfjordstraumen. He studied at the Art Academy of Oslo and Østlandets Music Conservatory.

He was a violinist in two famous folk rock bands from Norway, Folque and Ym-Stammen, but is more widely known for his own music on the two albums Landscape With Two Figures (with British songwriter Richard Burgess, 1982) and 13 Impossible Dances + 1 Improbable (1988, revised 1992).

Openly gay,[1] Rauset organized Night and Day, the first Scandinavian exhibition of gay and lesbian art, in 1985. He is a cultural ambassador of the International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network.[2]

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  1. ^ Aldrich, Robert & Wotherspoon, Garry (2002), Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge, p. 343, ISBN 0415291615 
  2. ^ ILGCN Cultural Ambassadors, <http://www.ilgcn.tupilak.org/2006/01/ilgcn-cultural-ambassadors.html>. Retrieved on 2007-11-25 

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