Knut T. Storbukås (born 23 April 1943), more commonly known by his stage name, Sputnik, is a musician and truck driver from Bostrak in the village of Tørdal which is in the municipality of Drangedal, Telemark.
In only a few years, Storbukås sold more than one million cassettes, and set records in a series of places where he performed.
[citation needed] He was rated as artist of the year in Norway in 1990, and in the fall of 1993 he got into the Guinness Book of World Records when he performed thirty-six times in locations from Mandal in the south to Tromsø in the north in only 72 hours.
[citation needed] During Easter in 1990, he was in the Soviet Union and partook in a music video in the Red Square in Moscow.
Sputnik also contributed to the show during the opening of TV2 in Grieghallen in the fall of 1992, in a duet with Kjell Bækkelund.