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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Knut Buen
Person · male · Norway · Kongsberg · born 1948
Norwegian fiddler, composer, folklorist and publisher
Timeline
5 events✦ Award 4◦ Birth 1
1940s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Biography
English biography121 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370797715
Biography
Knut Buen (born 31 October 1948) is a Norwegian fiddler, composer, folklorist and publisher. He was born in Kongsberg; the son of folk musician Anders Buen and Margit Tjønn, and is brother of Hauk Buen, Agnes Buen Garnås and the artist Kari Buen. He won the national music contest Landskappleiken in 1983 and 1986, and is known for his collection of traditional songs and melodies. He received Spellemannprisen in 1992 for the album Fykerud'n (in cooperation with Hauk Buen), and in 1994 for the album Bjølleslåtten (together with Kåre Nordstoga and Leif Rygg). He has been running the publishing company Buen kulturverkstad and the record company Nyrenning. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1999.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 5 | 97.4th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Knut Buen head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 5 | 97.4th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Telemark County Culture Award | won | |
| 1992 | Spellemann Award in folk | won | |
| 1994 | Spellemann Award in folk | won | |
| 2007 | Hilmar Award | won | |
| — | Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav | won |
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6423865seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Buenbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Buen
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Norwegian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Arnestrom · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q6423865 · MusicBrainz: 68460cf7-b621-4cd6-8524-ff4d709f07d6
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