- Have been a well known musican (vise-sanger) in Norway since the 1970's.
- Debuted with his first album in 1970.
- He was the father of composer Marcus Paus.
- Ole Paus himself reflected on death several times, not least when he received Musikk-Norge's highest award in 2014. The year before, his friends in "The Monroes" had; Eivind Rølles and Lage Fosheim, both passed away. In 2014, record director Per Eirik Johansen and music profiler Tor Milde also disappeared.
- A song that will forever be linked to Ole Paus is "Mitt lille land". Paus originally wrote it for the Yes side during the EU referendum in 1994. The song became a very central part of the mourning process after the terrorist attacks on Utøya and in the Government Quarter, through the versions by, among others, Maria Mena, Maria Solheim and Susanne Sundfør and of course Ole Paus himself.
- His works often commented on political and societal issues, earning him the reputation of a "bourgeois anarchist" who challenged authority and societal norms from a unique position of both insider and outsider in Norway's "establishment".
- Ole Paus has a number of awards behind him. The best ones are probably the Spellemannprisen, which he received for the first time in 1976. In 1998, he received the Spellemannjuryen's honorary prize, and in 2014 he ran away with the Spellemann of the Year.
- Ole Paus has written one of Sissel Kyrkjebø's most famous songs, "Innerst i sjelen".
- Paus had received the Spellemann honor for the triple album "Avslutningen", which he had for several years wished would be his last.
- Paus was discovered by artists Alf Cranner and Alf Prøysen, and was mentored by André Bjerke, Jens Bjørneboe and Henny Moan. He has been described as the Norwegian counterpart of Bob Dylan and as the "voice of the nation.
- During the 1970s and 1980s, Paus was known for his biting social commentary, especially in his ironic and sometimes libellous "musical newspapers" in the form of broadside ballads in a series of albums titled "The Paus Post".
- Paus is inducted into the Rockheim Hall of Fame and is also a Commander of the Order of St. Olav.
- Paus is noted for his consistent use of Norwegian and has been eager for other Norwegian musicians to switch from English to Norwegian.
- There was to be a book that Paus himself called a "poetic autobiography" - with the title "For a man". It is currently (december 2023)unknown if or when this book will be published.
- His last album release was "So close, so close" with the group Motorpsycho, in 2020.
- He was one of the central figures of the so-called visebølgen i Norge, i.e. troubadours in the tradition of Evert Taube, Cornelis Vreeswijk and others.
- Paus has also written books, been a presenter on television and an actor, but is of course best known for his visual art which more than often had satirical touches, including through a series he called the Paus posten.
- Paus was a Norwegian singer, songwriter, poet and author, who was widely regarded as the foremost troubadour of the contemporary Norwegian ballad tradition (Norwegian: visebølgen).
- Ole Paus never recovered from the stroke that struck him in the autumn (September) of 2023.
- Ole Paus was a word artist, but in recent days has also been highlighted as a guitarist of the highest class.
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