Category: Eurovision Song Contest winners

He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted " Hej, Clown " for the 1969 Melodifestivalen-the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals.

The foursome's breakthrough came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with " Waterloo " on 6 April 1974.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

In the 1990s, Peter formed One More Time, a group that enjoyed European success with the ABBA-like " Highland " and, later, as Sweden's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.

In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

In 1996, a song in Breton represented France in the 41st Eurovision Song Contest, the first time in history that France had a song without a word in French.

* " Euphoria " ( Loreen song ), performed by Swedish singer Loreen, won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest

The EBU's highest profile production is the Eurovision Song Contest, organised by its Eurovision Network.

The Eurovision Network also organises the Eurovision Dance Contest, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the Eurovision Young Dancers competition, and other competitions for young musicians and screenwriters, which are modelled along similar lines.

It is well known to Europeans as it is played before and after the Eurovision Song Contest and other important events.

Eurovision Song Contest winner of 2010, Lena ( Lena Meyer-Landrut ), is also from Hanover.

* Lena Meyer-Landrut, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

Finland holds the record for the largest number of people singing karaoke at one time, for over 80, 000 people singing " Hard Rock Hallelujah " on 26 May 2006 in Helsinki after Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

* Leon ( singer ), German performer in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest

Malmö is going to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 held in Malmö Arena.

In 1992 Malmö was the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, after Sweden won it the previous year, 1991 in Rome, Italy.

Twenty-one years after, it will host the contest again, after Swedish singer Loreen's victory in at Eurovision Song Contest 2012, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

* Each year in May, the Eurovision Song Contest is held.

* Eurovision Song Contest.

* 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland

The video was not included in the official DVD release of the Eurovision Contest, but was issued as a separate DVD release.

Abbey stated she has loved Eurovision since childhood and count previous Eurovision entrants such as Sonia, Precious and Dana International amongst her favourites.

The United Kingdom competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, represented by girlgroup Precious with " Say It Again ".

Frost started her musical career in 1998 in the group Precious, which became famous as the UK entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, with the song " Say It Again ".

In May 1999, Precious were voted in to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest taking place that year in Jerusalem, Israel.

She was also in the band Precious, which was the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1999.

" Both of the tracks were released as singles, however " Prostye Dvizheniya " did not broadcast well in Russia, due to the promotion for " Ne Ver, Ne Boisya " in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The new voting system that was introduced in this Eurovision did have one big problem: some juries gave fewer points out than others.

BBC commentator Terry Wogan, at the close of Kleveland's number, dryly remarked, " Katie Boyle former Eurovision host for the UK never sang, did she?

The 2007 edition of the contest did not take place as the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) has introduced a new teleshow the " Eurovision Dance Contest ".

Playing host to the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, the United Kingdom was expected to, and did, send an entry to the Contest, which was held in Wembley, London.

She competed in the Icelandic pre-qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, with the song " Mynd Af Þér " or " Picture of you " and, in a duo with Magni Ásgeirsson, reached the finals of the Icelandic qualifying for Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song, " Núna veit ég " but did not win.

The unforeseen Eurovision outcome was a blow to her previous achievements, but it did not make her give up her musical career.

In 2002, one of their most famous singers of Estonia, Ines, did not want to sing the song " Runaway " in the national pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 1964, the competition was cancelled due to an artist's strike ; Sweden did not send a song to Eurovision that year.

The singer Rasmus Lyberth did the most to change Greenlandic music by performing for simple entertainment rather than functionality ; indeed, he took part in the Danish preselection for the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, performing in Greenlandic.

In January 2008, the Sami artist Ann Marie Anderson, singing " Ándagassii " qualified to the finals of Melodi Grand Prix 2008, ( the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 ), but she did not win.

Germany has participated in every Eurovision Song Contest since its beginning in 1956, although its entry in 1996 did not qualify past the pre ‐ selection round, and therefore was not seen in the broadcast final.

Despite the respectable showing of Croatia's 2004 Eurovision entry " You Are The Only One ", the country did not achieve a high enough placing to qualify automatically for the 2005 grand final.

Kalomira had been in New York for months after Eurovision because of her sister's baby and did not do any promotion for the new album.

Global Kryner were the first band to perform in the semi-final of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, opening the show, but did not receive enough televotes to progress to the final, coming 21st out of 25 countries.

Eurovision demanded the lyrics to be changed for the contest ( because it did not correspond to contests rules due to political content ).

Valters made a solo effort to represent Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, but did not make it to the Latvian finals in the town of Ventspils in March.

During the voting at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, the Slovenian spokesperson Peter Poles jokingly requested a minutes silence, in order to commemorate the fact that Slovenia did not get to the final for two years running, however the silence on lasted 14 seconds.

Though STV originally stated that Slovakia would not return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011, it eventually did appear in Dusseldorf.

No Name were close to becoming the national entry once more, for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, however since their 2005 win of the national qualifier had been disputed due to tactical voting by the Radio-Television of Montenegro jury, and since the 2006 vote saw a repeat of this, the UJRT, the national union of broadcasters, did not reach an agreement on sending them to the contest again.

An exception occurred when Maja Odžaklievska won the Yugoslav competition in 1980, but she did not perform in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 due to the Yugoslavian decision not to participate that year.

* Benton won the Eurovision Song Contest for Estonia, but at the time he did not speak Estonian.

In the 1960s and 70's, he did the orchestration for Poupée de cire, poupée de son, performed by the teen singer France Gall, winning the grand prize for The Eurovision Song Contest in 1965.