Kirsti Sparboe is a Norwegian musical performer and an actress. Most of her musical career has been built on participation in the widely-popular Eurovision Song Contest in which she competed three times and scored a grand total of four points. Kirsti Sparboe was born on 7 December 1946 in Tromsø, Norway. She first participated in…
Lize Marke (born Liliane Couck, Wemmel, 1 December 1936) is a Belgian singer, best known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Song ContestMarke started singing professionally in 1962, and first participated in the Belgian Eurovision selection in 1963, when she performed two songs, „Luister naar de wind“ and „Saksisch porselein“, which…
Simone de Macedo e Oliveira, GCIH (born 11 February 1938) better known as Simone de Oliveira is a Portuguese singer and actress. She performed the Portuguese entries at the 1965 and 1969 editions of the Eurovision song contest. Early life and careerSimone de Oliveira was born and raised in Lisbon. Her Portuguese mother had black…
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.…
Ulla Wiesner (born 12 December 1940, Werl/Westphalia) is a German singer. Ulla Wiesner was active from 1963 to 2002 as a singer. In 1965, she represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest, with her song, „Paradies, wo bist du?“ (Paradise, where are you?). It scored zero points along with three other countries out of the…
Viktor Savvich Klimenko (born 24 November 1942) is a singer who made himself known as the „Singing Cossack“. Biography Klimenko was born in Karelia, to a Ukrainian Cossack father, Savva Klimenko, and a Russian mother, Olga Glotova. A few years after his birth, his family moved to Finland. There, he became a musician and appeared…
Marjorie Noël (French pronunciation: [maʁʒɔʁi nɔ.ɛl], born Françoise Nivot; 25 December 1945 – 30 April 2000) was a French pop singer who had a brief career in the mid-1960s, and is best known for her participation on behalf of Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Noël was born in Paris. Her first recordings were…
Ioanna Fassou Kalpaxi (Greek: Ιωάννα Φάσσου Καλπαξή; born 14 November 1938), known professionally as Yovanna, is a Greek singer, novelist and poet known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland. Early life and educationAt the age of 14, she started her vocal studies at the Athens Conservatoire and trained as an…