Jorun Stiansen

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Jorun Stiansen (born 20 January 1984 in Colombia) is a Norwegian pop singer and artist. She won the Idol version of Pop Idol in 2005.^[1]

She grew up with adoptive parents in Vennesla. She is the only winner of this version to have been born outside of Norway, and as of 2007 (season 5), the first (of two, Jenny Langlo won as the second female in 2011) female to have won.

Jorun Stiansen is one of only seven contestants in the Idol (Norway) history who succeeded in staying out of “bottom three/two” places in weekly votes along with Kurt Nilsen (season 1), Gaute Ormåsen (season 1), Susanne Nordbøe (season 2), Alejandro Fuentes (season 3), Tone Damli Aaberge (season 3) and Jonas Thomassen (season 4). Of them, only Nilsen and Stiansen went on to win the competition.