Background
He grew up in Africa and learned to speak Swahili there.
He grew up in Africa and learned to speak Swahili there.
He took on a choir from Kolbotn where they finished 5th in the competition out of 7 choirs taking part.
Upon his return, he formed the hip hop duo Paperboys with Jarle "Josip Juraj" Hollerud. When JJ left the formation, he was replaced by DJ Ole Alexander "Pope Dawg" Halstensgåroad In the duo Øyvind Sauvik was popularly known as Vincent Vagabond or just Vinni.
The band released a number of successful albums.
In 2009, Vinni took part in the Norwegian television 2 channel"s reality television program Det store korslaget, a competition of choirs. In 2009, he also took part in Zebra Grand Prix a car racing competition of celebrities broadcast on TV2 Zebra where Vinni partnered with Vibeke Klemetsen.
Although the couple passed the preliminary round of the race, they were eliminated after the semi-final race. In 2010, he carved for himself an independent musical career with his band with a release of the album Happily Lost.
Vinni also took part in the reality television program Hver gang vi møtes also on television 2, with well-known singers competing on performing of hits of the other participants.
Vinni"s interpretation were: Halvdan Sivertsen episode - "Sommerfuggel i vinterland" Bertine Zetlitz episode - "Apples & Diamonds" January Eggum episode - "Kor é alle helter hen?" Anne Grete Preus episode - "Millimeter" Øyvind "Vinni" Sauvik episode - Being his week, the other participants sang Vinni"s own hits with Elvira Nikolaisen singing "Barcelona", January Eggum singing "Tomorrow", Bertine Zetlitz singing "Change My Star", Øystein Dolmen singing "Let the Monkey Out", Anne Grete Preus singing "Medisin" and Halvdan Sivertsen singing "Lonesome Traveller" Elvira Nikolaisen episode - "Nothing to Lose" Øystein Dolmen episode - "God morgen Norge" Electric and Music Industries released a compilation of the performances on an album entitled Venner. Vinni"s interpretation of "Sommerfuggel i vinterland" from Halvdan Sivertsen proved to be the most popular of all the performances. In 2012, Vinni had a huge success with the single "Sommerfuggel i Vinterland" that he performed initially during Hver gang vi møtes. the song stayed at the top of the VG-lista, the official Norwegian Chart, for 5 consecutive weeks.
This top selling single was replaced by yet another of his Hver gang vi møtes performances namely "Godmorgen Norge" which also reached #1 and staying at the top of the VG-lista for another 2 weeks, making it a total of 7 consecutive weeks for Vinni on top of the Norwegian charts in 2012.
Based on this immense success, Vinni released yet a third single "Halve meg" that entered the Norwegian Chart at #4 in its first week of release. A studio album is expected during 2012.