Sandra Oxenryd (born 1 October 1982) is a Swedish singer who won Fame Factory in 2005, and represented

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

in the

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Biography

Oxenryd was born in

Kristinehamn Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 24,053 inhabitants in 2022. Geography Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern where the small rivers ''Varnan'' and ''Löt'' ...

and is a former

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student and

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player. Aged eleven, she started her singing career by performing on national

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. At 18, she placed second in a look-alike competition, where she mirrored Swedish superstar

Carola Häggkvist Carola Maria Häggkvist (; born 8 September 1966), commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco ...

. After winning the Swedish Fame Factory in 2005, Sandra recorded her debut album. An international jury decided that Sandra Oxenryd would represent

at Eurovision 2006 with the song Through My Window.Through my window - Sandra Oxenryd to represent Estonia
ESCtoday 2006-04-02 The song is written by Pearu Paulus, Ilmar Laisaar, Alar Kotkas (composers) and Jana Hallas (lyricist), the same authors who wrote the Estonian entries for

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("Once in a lifetime") and

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("Runaway"), which came 4th and 3rd, respectively. Despite the song becoming a fan favourite, "Through My Window" only scored 28 points and finished 18th in the semi-final, therefore not qualifying for the final. On 23 February 2008, Sandra competed for the chance to represent

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in that year's Eurovision, with the song "Superhero", finishing 8th.

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Eurovision's official profile of the Estonian entry
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