Kristian Valen

Scandinavias most selling artist/comedian after he in 2015 broke the magical "700.000 tickets sold" line at the box office + actor, award winning impersonator, singer/songwriter, producer, director, writer and all-round artist. A self made man with his own company (Deepwater Entertainment) since nobody believed in his ideas of entertainment in the beginning so he had to fund, write, produce, direct and perform everything himself in the beginning. Most selling artist in Norway on DVD (all 5 DVD's sold gold and platinum and his first stage show is the most selling show on DVD in Norway ever), and have written, starred and made three TV shows on TV-Norway which all ended up being the highest rated comedy and TV show all 3 times. In spring 2012 his fourth TV-series "Valens Rikskringkasting" was aired at NRK (the national broadcaster in Norway) and it to became the channels highest rated comedy show. Just wrapped up his last show with noe other stars than Sharon Stone, William Shatner, Esai Morales, Steven Bauer, Jean Beauvoir etc and is now rewriting all his TV shows for an international TV series. Financed, recorded and released his own CD album after the business in Norway said it would not sell. His first single and video "Still here" went straight to number 1, and the album was certified gold after three days and later platinum. Got signed by one of the worlds largest publishing company Air Chrysalis and released his album in 3 continents. (Voted number top 5 artist by the readers of Norway's second biggest newspaper). His single "Still here" got voted on the top 10 songs of the decade on Norway's biggest commercial station P4. The album had 2 more big radio hits. His company's have grossed over 40 million USD alone to this date. ALL rights to the material that he have ever done or been a part of on stage, TV, music/CD or DVD etc is owned by himself since he financed everything alone in the beginning. Kristian was hand picked to perform in the Hollywood movie "Living The Dream" with Sean Young (Ace Ventura, Blade runner and No way out), Danny Trejo (Kill Bill and Heat etc.), Jeff Connoway (Grease) amongst others. He was also handpicked to be one of the leading acts on "Forever Michael" (The 1 year memorial and tribute show to Michael Jackson at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles 2010.) The only unknown act on stage in front of Michael's family, friends, world class artists, actors and diplomats from all over the world who was there to pay tribute to the King of Pop. In September 2010 he fronted the Heineken owned new beer/drink brand "OTTO" as his VERY "feminine" character "Kjartan" in Finland. (The commercial is one of the biggest successes and scored as one of the highest and most viewed clips on Youtube.) The same year he also released his own Cognac brand Valen Cognac.