His first electric guitar was enabled in 1939 by constructing a pickup of copper wire, magnets and pitch, stolen from public phones, Normann told in an interview with Jon Larsen.
He played concerts with his own solo section and could be heard at the revue theaters "Edderkoppen" and Chat Noir for several years.
[3] Normanns play can mislead people into thinking that Django Reinhardt was the inspiration, but by his own account he never listened recordings with the Belgian guitarist, but to American musicians Teddy Wilson and Leon Chu Berry, and various accordionists.
His latest bass player Håkon Nilsen was deceased, and Normann replaced him by placing a microphone oktavboks of the three lowest guitar strings.
The one time so wital giant withdrew gradually from the outside world, and lived his last years in isolation in Kvastebyen, Skjeberg, Østfold, hence the characteristic "the jazz version of Greta Garbo" by Knut Borge.