Aleksander Denstad With (born June 30, 1987 in Trondheim, Norway), won season 4 of the TV show Idol (Norway) in May 2006, becoming the youngest person ever to win the competition. He has often been described as one of the few people associated with this contest to actually have something to offer the world in terms of music. His first album “Coming Home” (released in October 23,2006) is a good pop album with inspirations from Coldplay and Andreas Johnson amongst others, and it’s gotten pretty good reviews in the Norwegian newspapers. He was only 19 years old, but has contributed on nine out of eleven songs and also plays the organ and piano on the album.|The album was a major success and peaked at #4 on the Top 40 Norwegian Albums Chart upon release. So far, “A Little Too Perfect”, “The Other Side” and “Free Ride” have been released as singles from the album.
On December 1, 2007, Aleksander performed alongside Norwegian Pop-Rock artist, Marion Raven, at the Norwegian “Idol Gives Back” show.
In 2006 With realesed the album “Coming home”|In 2009 With released the single “What’s the Story”.|In 2010 With released the album “Still Awake”
|Pre-Idol
WimpyLime were an unsigned project Aleksander and his former girlfriend, Vivian Sørmeland (who came third in Idol (Norway) Season 4) were a part of from the summer of 2004 until Idol in 2006. WimpyLime wrote all of their material as a group and together could play the keyboard, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Aleksander and Vivian were the band’s lead vocalists. Only two demos clips have leaked from WimpyLime’s recorded catalog, one titled “Southern Skies” and another titled “The Secret”. Members: Vivian Sørmeland, Aleksander With, Olav S. Flaa, Arne Fredrik Lånke |
