Jonas Alaska

Jonas Alaska (born 3 April 1988), real name Jonas Aslaksen, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. He won a Spellemannprisen award in 2012.

Biography Hailing from Åmli Municipality, Aslaksen studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 he scored his first hit single with "In the Backseat" and released his first solo album called Jonas Alaska. The album peaked at 5th on VG-lista, with 24 charting weeks in total.

Alaska was nominated for three Spellemannprisen awards in 2012—"male artist of the year", "songwriter of the year" and "newcomer of the year"—winning the latter. In March 2013 he released his second album If Only As A Ghost, produced by Kjartan Kristiansen, which immediately entered 4th spot on the VG-lista chart. Universitas labelled most of the album "forgettable". Adresseavisen printed a positive review, a dice throw of 5, as the reviewer called Alaska "brilliant pop music". The same score was found in Gaffa.

In 2015 his third studio album, Younger was published Vårt Land did however call the album "dangerously close on bordering cliché".

Alaska did however release acoustic versions of Younger – Side 1 and Younger – Side 2 in 2015. He followed with several albums; Fear Is A Demon (2017), Live at Parkteatret 2016 (2018), Roof Came Down (2020) and Girl (2021).