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Pål Moddi Knutsen (born February 18, 1987) is a Norwegian musician. Moddi is self-taught, counting accordion and guitar as his main instruments. His music has been described as a blend of folk music and pop, although he refers to himself as a songwriter and storyteller. Moddi received the Norwegian Spellemann award for 'folk album of the year 2014'.〔http://p3.no/musikk/spellemann-2013-her-er-vinnerne/〕 Moddi is widely recognised for his social and political activism, rejecting a grant of €100 000 from Norwegian oil company Statoil in 2010 on environmental grounds and cancelling his scheduled Tel Aviv concert in 2014 in protest against the occupation of the West Bank.〔http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/moddi-cancels-tel-aviv-gig-after-appeal-gaza〕 == Musical career == Pål Knutsen grew up in a musical family on the island Senja in Northern Norway. He debuted 5 years old on the local radio station, singing a traditional sea shanty. During his early youth, the young Knutsen played classical piano, the cornet in the school's marching band, bass guitar in various rock bands and also performed as a rapper. At 18, he adopted the old family name Moddi and started writing his own songs under that name.〔 〕 After finishing school, the 20-year-old Moddi decided to live for a year without a home and "travel, play concerts and have fun until I had spent all my money". Moddi's debut release, Random Skywriting EP, was recorded in the bedroom studio of a friend and distributed in only 20 home-made copies. NRK Urørt, a Norwegian emerging artists radio show, picked up the EP and put it in heavy rotation on Norwegian radio channel P3. The following year saw performances by the young Moddi on festivals like by:Larm and Øyafestivalen, where he received praise from among others the internet magazine Pitchfork.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Pitchfork review of Øyafestival ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moddi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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