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.

In 2005, the Eurovision Song Contest organized the biggest televoting ever ( with SMS and phone voting ).

In 2003, the song " Millim Laahava " (" Words for Love ") won at the national finals organized by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (" IBA ") television channel, Channel One, against three other songs for the privilege to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, due to his prominence and popularity on the Israeli popular music scene.

It is a member of EBU. Since 70's ERT is part of the Eurovision Song Contest, organized by EBU.

It organized the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

* May 24 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland.

** Estonia hosts the first Eurovision Song Contest in a former Soviet republic.

All six Eurovision contest song candidates were recorded by Newton-John and included on her Long Live Love album, her first for the EMI Records label.

Van Hemert was the first person to win the Eurovision Song Contest twice.

* Abba held a press photo shoot at Waterloo on 11 April 1974, the day after their first appearance on Top of the Pops, in celebration of their ' Waterloo ' winning the Eurovision Song Contest five days before

Lys Assia ( born Rosa Mina Schärer, 3 March 1926, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland ) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

In 1956 she was the winner of the very first Eurovision Song Contest, in which she sang for Switzerland.

* March 29 – At the 14th annual Eurovision Song Contest held at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain, the final result is a four-way tie for first place between Spain (" Vivo cantando " – Salomé ); United Kingdom (" Boom Bang-a-Bang " – Lulu ); Netherlands (" De Troubadour " – Lenny Kuhr ) and France (" Un jour, un enfant " – Frida Boccara ).

* March 31 – The Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest music festival in the world, takes place for the first time in a country outside Europe – Israel.

* May 25 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.

The previous year, the UK had won the Eurovision Song Contest ( the first time since Brotherhood of Man ) with the two boy / two girl pop act Bucks Fizz.

In 2009, Cherry Red Records released the first four albums by the Eurovision line up as two double CDs.

This was Ireland's first victory in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest and the first held in Dublin, Ireland.

Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest ; Dana, who was Ireland's first winner, winning the contest in 1970 with " All Kinds of Everything ", and Mr Eurovision himself, Johnny Logan, winning the contest as a singer in 1980 and 1987 (" What's Another Year?

Malta had wished to return to the contest for the first time in 15 years, but Eurovision rules prevented them from returning due to a maximum of 22 entries allowed to compete.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1990 was the first to implement an age rule.

From a musicological perspective both Spain's " Bandido " and France's " White and Black Blues " can be said to be the first entries to signal a new trend at Eurovision, with both songs fusing contemporary dance music with ethnic influences, from flamenco and calypso respectively.

The 1986 contest was a first for Eurovision in that royalty were among the guests — Crown Prince Harald, Crown Princess Sonja, Princess Märtha Louise and Prince Haakon Magnus were all in attendance.

As this was the first time Norway hosted a Eurovision Song Contest, NRK commissioned a lavish budget for the event, turning Grieghallen into a Viking-esque " ice palace " for the live show, complete with white and pastel neon lights for the stage.

Morocco joined the Eurovision family for the first ( and so far only ) time.

Due to Charell's choice to announce points in three languages instead of two, the voting went on for nearly an hour, stretching the Eurovision contest past three hours for the first time ever.