Roberto Satti better known as Bobby Solo (born 18 March 1945) is an Italian singer, musician and film actor. Singing careerIn 1964, Solo participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song „Una lacrima sul viso“ („A Tear on your Face“, written by „Lunero“), but affected by laryngitis, he sang with playback, which disqualified him…
Udo Jürgens (born Jürgen Udo Bockelmann; 30 September 1934 – 21 December 2014) was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, composed close to 1,000 songs, and sold over 100 million records. In 2007, he additionally obtained Swiss citizenship.…
António Calvário da Paz (born 17 October 1938, in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique) is a Portuguese singer and artist from the late 1950s and 1960s. Life and careerBorn in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, in Africa, still as a child, he settled with his family in Portugal’s southern region of Algarve, in Europe, where he was…
Louise Johanna „Anneke“ Grönloh (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑnəkə ˈɡrʏnloː]; 7 June 1942 – 14 September 2018) was an Indonesian-born Dutch singer. She had a successful career starting in 1959 that lasted throughout the 1960s, and scored a hit with „Brandend zand“, one of the best-selling Dutch songs of all time. Early lifeGrönloh was born in Tondano,…
Arne Joachim Bendiksen (19 October 1926 – 26 March 2009) was a Norwegian singer, composer and producer, described as „the father of pop music“ in Norway. CareerBendiksen was born in Bergen, Norway. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he was a major figure in Norwegian popular music. First, as a member of the group The…
Anita Traversi (25 July 1937 – 25 September 1991) was a Swiss singer, best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1960 and 1964. Early careerBorn in Giubiasco, Traversi was encouraged by her father, a musician, and started singing with an orchestra in the mid-1950s, including with the orchestra of the Italian…
The Danish Final was held on February 15th at the Tivoli Concerthall in Copenhagen, hosted by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre. The winning song was chosen by postcard voting with the result being announced on February 20th – 233465 votes were cast. 1 Mit private Grand Prix My private Grand Prix Else & Preben Oxbøl ? ? 2 Sangen…