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Melodi Grand Prix Winners
This article lists the songs and artists that have won Melodi Grand Prix, the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition was not held in 1970 (non-participation), 1991 (NRK’s cancellation), and 2002 (relegation). List of winners Performers and songwriters with multiple wins The following individuals have won the Melodi Grand Prix as a performer or songwriter more than once. See also * Melodi Grand Prix * Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest Norway has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 63 times since making its debut in and has only been absent twice since then. In Eurovision Song Contest 1970, 1970, the country boycotted the contest over disagreements about the votin ... Notes References {{Melodi Grand Prix (Norway) W Melodi Grand Prix winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodi Grand Prix
Melodi Grand Prix (), commonly known as Grand Prix and MGP, sometimes as Norsk Melodi Grand Prix, is an annual music competition organised by Norwegian public broadcaster (NRK). It determines for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1960. The festival has produced three List of Eurovision Song Contest winners, Eurovision winners, Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, a non-winning televote winner and nine top-five placings for Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest, Norway at the contest. However, Norway holds the record for the number of entries who have come last since entering Eurovision; 12 in all. Despite this, the competition still makes considerable impact on music charts in Norway and other Nordic countries, with the 2008 winner topping the Norwegian charts. Origins The Eurovision Song Contest began on 24 May 1956 with its first edition in Lugano, Switzerland. Norway's first contest was the fifth, the . The first Melodi Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsti Sparboe
Kirsti Sparboe (born 7 December 1946) 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 the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 when she was 18, with the song "Karusell", which came in 13th place. She then participated in the 1966 Norwegian pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Gi Meg Fri", which came in second. In 1967, her song "Dukkemann" won the pre-selection, and came in 14th place in Eurovision. She also participated in the 1968 Norwegian pre-selection, and would have gone on to represent Norway in 1968, but the song she performed ("Jag har aldri vært så glad i no'en som deg") was disqualified after there were accusations that it was a plagiarism of a popular Cliff Richard song called " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Borg
Benny Borg (born 13 November 1945) is a Swedish-born Norwegian singer and composer. He was born in Gothenburg, but moved to Norway in 1968, and was married to Norwegian singer and actress Kirsti Sparboe from 1972 to 1978. As a singer and musician, he is known for his collaboration with the Dizzie Tunes, and with Grethe Kausland. He won a Spellemannprisen award in 1973, and represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom and was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corpo .... In 2004 he won the Herman Wildenvey Poetry Award. References External links * * 1945 births Living people Swedish male singers Swedish expatriates in Norway Spellemannprisen winners Eurovision Song Contest entrants Musicians from Gothenburg {{sweden-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grethe Kausland
Grethe Kausland ( Nilsen; 3 July 1947 – 16 November 2007) was a Norwegian singer, performer and actress. As a child star she was one of Norway's most popular singers (her debut single “Teddyen min” from 1955, sold more than 100,000 recordsJan Eggum, Bård Ose, Siren Steen: ''Norsk pop & rock-leksikon'' (Vega Forlag AS, 2005) Norsk pop- og rockleksikon (2005)Grethe Kausland(Retrieved on 17 November 2007)), and she participated in several films as a child. She represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest, singing " Småting" with Benny Borg. From 1973 she performed regularly with the musical group Dizzie Tunes. Awarded "Spellemannprisen" 1978 for the album ''A Taste of Grethe Kausland'', and " Leonardstatuetten" 1991 for her achievements on the revue scene. She died from lung cancer on 16 November 2007, in Oslo, Norway. Child career Grethe made her stage debut at age 4 at a local revue, and cut her first record at age 8 in 1955, after winning a radio-transmitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodi Grand Prix 1972
Norway was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 with the song "", written by Kåre Grøttum and Ivar Børsum, and performed by Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, (NRK), selected its entry through the 1972. Before Eurovision 1972 (NRK) held the 1972 at its studios in Oslo, hosted by Vidar Lønn-Arnesen. Five songs were presented in the final with each song sung twice by different singers, once with a small combo and once with a full orchestra. The winning song was chosen by voting from a 14-member public jury who each awarded between 1 and 5 points per song. At Eurovision On the night of the final, Kausland and Borg performed 6th in the running order, following the 's The New Seekers with " Beg, Steal or Borrow" and preceding 's Carlos Mendes with "A festa da vida". "" was a rather old-fashioned song, lyrically very similar in theme to the previous year's "", and at the close of voting had picked up 73 points, placing N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanne Krogh
Hanne Krogh (born 24 January 1956) is a Norwegian singer and actress from Haugesund and Oslo. Krogh is among the most selling record artists in Norway ever. She represented Norway alone at the age of fifteen at the "Eurovision Song Contest 1971" with the song "Lykken er..." and is internationally well known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with Elisabeth Andreassen in the group Bobbysocks!. Personal life She is the mother of television presenter Sverre Krogh Sundbø and actress :no:Amalie Krogh, Amalie Krogh. Career She officially started singing when she was 9 years old, and released her first album when she was 14. She represented Norway with the song "Lykken er..." ("Happiness is...") in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest. She has received major acclaim through Norwegian awards. Among them are numerous Spellemann (Norwegian Grammy) including the Honorary Award, and the Peer Gynt Prize, which is awarded by members of the Parliament to those Norwegians who have d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodi Grand Prix 1971
Norway was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 with the song "", written by Arne Bendiksen, and performed by Hanne Krogh. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, (NRK), selected its entry through the 1971. "" marked Norway's return to Eurovision after their first of only two absences to date since their debut, when they were one of five countries to boycott the 1970 contest in protest at the four-way tie in 1969 and the fact that they (along with and ) considered that the voting system of the late 1960s tended to place the Nordic countries at a disadvantage. Before Eurovision 1971 (NRK) held the 1971 on 20 February at its studios in Oslo, hosted by Jan Voigt. Twelve songs took part in the final, with the winner chosen by a 14-member public jury who each awarded between 1 and 5 points per song. Other participants included past and future Norwegian representatives Inger Jacobsen, Odd Børre, and Anne-Karine Strøm. At Eurovision On the night of the fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodi Grand Prix 1969
Norway was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the song "", written by Arne Bendiksen, and performed by Kirsti Sparboe. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, (NRK), selected its entry through the 1969. This was the last of three Eurovision appearances in five years for Sparboe. Before Eurovision 1969 (NRK) held the 1969 at its studios in Oslo, hosted by Janka Polyani. Ten songs took part in the final, with the winner chosen by ten regional juries who each had 5 points to divide between the songs. Other performers included the previous year's Norwegian singer Odd Børre and Lill-Babs, who had sung for Sweden in 1961. At Eurovision On the night of the final Sparboe performed 12th in the running order, following and preceding . "" was one of the many uptempo pop offerings which dominated the 1969 contest, but appeared not to have been able to distinguish itself from the crowd, as at the close of voting the song had received only 1 point (from Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Børre
Odd Børre Sørensen (9 August 1939 – 28 January 2023) was a Norwegian pop singer. Internationally, he is best known for the song "Stress (Odd Børre song), Stress" that he performed in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1968. He sang in the Kjell Karlsen's Orchestra (1962–70) and was releasing singles during that period. He retired from full-time professional singing in 1970 and became an insurance company agent (although he did perform in the Norwegian national finals in 1971 and 1977 and was one of the judges in the 1978 final). After retiring in the early 2000s, Odd Børre teamed up again with Kjell Karlsen and performed with him. Børre died on 28 January 2023, at the age of 83. Melodi Grand Prix entries * * Odd Børre & ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodi Grand Prix 1968
Norway was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "Stress", composed by Tor Hultin, with lyrics by Ola B. Johannessen, and performed by Odd Børre. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, (NRK), organised the national final 1968 in order to select its entry for the contest. Before Eurovision 1968 (NRK) held the 1968 at its studios in Oslo, hosted by Jan Voigt. Five performers and songs took part in the final with each song sung twice by different singers, once with a small combo and once with a full orchestra. The winning song was chosen by voting from ten regional juries. "Stress" originally finished second in the on 3 March, but NRK chose it as the Norwegian entry when the winning song "" was withdrawn for Eurovision by its composer amid persistent allegations that it plagiarised the 1963 hit "Summer Holiday" by Cliff Richardwho was the 's representative in the 1968 contest. Odd Børre was chosen as the artist who would perform the selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola B
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Melodi Grand Prix 1967
Norway was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 with the song "", composed by Tor Hultin, with lyrics by Ola B. Johannessen, and performed by Kirsti Sparboe. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, (NRK), organised the national final 1967 in order to select its entry for the contest. This was the second of Sparboe's three Eurovision appearances for Norway. Before Eurovision 1967 (NRK) held the 1967 at in Oslo, hosted by Jan Voigt. Ten performers and five songs took part in the final with each song sung twice by different singers, once with a small combo and once with a full orchestra. The winning song was chosen by voting from ten regional juries. At Eurovision On the evening of the final Sparboe performed 13th in the running order, following and preceding . Each national jury had 10 points to distribute between the songs, and at the close "" had picked up 2 points (1 each from the and ), placing Norway joint 14th (with and the Netherlands) of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
