Dag Stokke

Dag Stokke
Born	April 1, 1967(1967-04-01) Gjøvik, Norway
Died	April 27, 2011(2011-04-27) (aged 44)
Genres	Hard rock, glam metal
Instruments	Keyboards
Years active	1987–2011
Associated acts	TNT, Vagabond

Dag Stokke (April 1, 1967 – April 27, 2011) was a Norwegian keyboardist, church organist and mastering engineer best known for his work with the Norwegian rock bands TNT and Vagabond. He owned an online mastering service called OnlineMastering.

Stokke was TNT's live keyboardist from April 1987 to 2011 and played on every TNT album from Realized Fantasies (1992) to A Farewell to Arms (2010).^[1] However, he was never a permanent TNT member.^[1] "I'm cool with my position in TNT," he said in a 2010 interview, "Some people ask me why I'm not in the pictures and why I'm not profiled. That's just the way it is, and I'm completely laidback with that. I got to experience the rockstar existence so much in 1987 and especially in 1989 and a little bit into 1992, so that dream has been realized. If I'm not upfront, that's totally cool, because I know I've been a part of all this."^[1] He played his last concert with TNT in Umeå, Sweden on March 5, 2011.^[2]

In January 2011 he found out he had cancer.^[2] Stokke died on April 27, 2011 at the age of 44. He is survived by a son.^[3][4]

Discography

TNT

• Realized Fantasies (1992)
• Three Nights in Tokyo (1992)
• Firefly (1997)
• Transistor (1999)
• My Religion (2004)
• All the Way to the Sun (2005)
• Live in Madrid (2006)
• The New Territory (2007)
• Atlantis (2008)
• A Farewell to Arms (2010)

Vagabond

• Vagabond (1994)
• A Huge Fan of Life (1995)

Other artists

• Jorn - Starfire (2000)
• Unni Wilhelmsen - Disconnected (2001)
• Arnstein Hammershaug - Langsomme dager (2009)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Dahle, Jan (2010). "Dag Stokke – Rockestjerne og kirkeorganist" (in Norwegian). TNT BookAzine: pp. 16. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "TNT-keyboardist er død - adressa.no" (in Norwegian). adressa.no. http://www.adressa.no/kultur/article1624124.ece. Retrieved 2011-04-27. 
3. ^ "TNT-keyboardist Dag Stokke død - VG Nett" (in Norwegian). vg.no. http://www.vg.no/musikk/artikkel.php?artid=10084893. Retrieved 2011-04-27. 
4. ^ "BLABBERMOUTH.NET - TNT Keyboardist Loses Battle With Cancer At Age 44". roadrunnerrecords.com. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=157351. Retrieved 2011-04-27. 

External links

• Dag Stokke's personal page

Persondata
Name	Stokke, Dag
Alternative names
Short description	Musician
Date of birth	April 1, 1967
Place of birth	Gjøvik, Norway
Date of death	April 27, 2011
Place of death