Career
Hasselgård comes from Norway"s sixth largest city, Fredrikstad which has more than 60,000 inhabitants and lies 90 km south-east of Oslo, close to the border with Sweden. He started to play the piano when he was six years old and has trained in several musical genres. His home page indicates that his career as an entertainment artist has been uneventful since 2004.
He has studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo to focus and also worked full-time as a kindergarten teacher.
In 2006, Jostein and his band Hasselgård, released an album called A few Words.