List: Eurovision Song Contest winners

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•  ABBA

  ABBA was a Swedish pop music group formed in Stockholm in 1972, consisting of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog (Anna). Fältskog and Ulvaeus were a married couple, as were Lyngstad and Andersson during their career, although both couples later divorced. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, and they topped the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982.

  

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•  Lys Assia

  Lys Assia is a Swiss singer. Born as Rosa Mina Schärer, when she was a young girl she was a dancer. In 1940, however, she stood in for a female singer. People who heard her singing liked it, so she changed from dancing to singing. In 1956 she was the winner of the very first Eurovision Song Contest, in which she sang for Switzerland. She had also been in the German national final of that year; she returned to the contest again for Switzerland in 1957 and 1958.

  

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•  Lulu (singer)

  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, actress,and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day. She is most famous worldwide for her hit "To Sir, with Love" and in the UK for "Shout".

  

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•  Brotherhood of Man

  Brotherhood of Man are a British pop group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with "Save Your Kisses for Me". The group was created by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller in 1969 and scored a worldwide hit with "United We Stand" the following year. By 1974 the line up had changed to the quartet Brotherhood of Man would become most famous for. The group became successful in Europe, before returning to do the same in the UK.

  

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•  Dana Rosemary Scallon

  Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951) is better known simply as Dana, an Irish singer and former politician. Her career began when, as an A-level student, she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with the Lindsay/Smith penned "All Kinds of Everything", a subsequent worldwide million-seller.

  

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•  Udo Jürgens

  Udo Jürgens (born 30 September 1934 as Udo Jürgen Bockelmann), is an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spans over fifty years. He has written more than 900 songs and sold about 100 million units, making him one of the most successful composers and recording artists in the world and the best selling Austrian singer ever.

  

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•  Paul Harrington

  Paul Harrington may refer to: Paul Harrington, an Irish musician and Eurovision Song Contest winner. Paul Randall Harrington, an American orthopaedic surgeon and designer of the Harrington Rod.

  

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•  Celine Dion

  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC, OQ (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian singer, occasional songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record.

  

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•  Johnny Logan (singer)

  Johnny Logan (born Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard, 13 May 1954), is an Irish singer and composer.

  

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•  Dana International

  Sharon Cohen, professionally known as Dana International is an Israeli pop singer, born in a Yemenite Jewish family. She is most famous for having won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva". She is arguably one of the most famous transsexual celebrities in the world. Her career began in 1992, and since then she has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever.

  

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•  Sandra Kim

  Sandra Caldarone (born 15 October 1972), better known as Sandra Kim, is a Belgian singer of Italian descent who won the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 held in Bergen, Norway, on 3 May 1986. She was born in Montegnée, near Liège, and started singing when she was seven.

  

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•  Sertab Erener

  Sertab Erener (born 4 December 1964 in Istanbul) is a Turkish pop music singer and also a cross-over soprano with a vocal range that extends to high F. She is one of the most successful female Turkish pop singers in her homeland, and is considered one of the divas of Turkish pop music. In Europe, she is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with her hit song "Everyway That I Can", although she has had many other achievements outside Turkey.

  

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•  Vicky Leandros

  Vicky Leandros (born Vassiliki Papathanasiou, 23 August 1949, now legally Vassiliki von Ruffin) is a Greek singer with a long international career. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou (known as Leo Leandros – composer pseudonym Mario Panas). She achieved worldwide fame after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with the song "Après Toi".

  

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•  Olsen Brothers

  Olsen Brothers are a Danish rock/pop music duo, and are brothers Jørgen (born March 15, 1950) and "Noller" (Niels, born April 13, 1954) Olsen. They formed their first band, The Kids, in 1965. The Kids warmed up for The Kinks in the K.B. Hallen in 1965 and released their first single in 1967. Both Jørgen and Niels Olsen participated in the musical Hair in the Cirkusbygningen in Copenhagen March 1971, and went on tour afterwards through Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

  

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•  Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann

  Grethe Ingmann and Jørgen Ingmann are Danish singers and musicians. Together they won the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix in 1963, and went on to represent Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 with the song Dansevise ("Dancing tune") with music by Otto Francker and lyrics by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen. The song won the competition. No other Danish song would take first place in the Eurovision competition again until the year 2000 when the Olsen Brothers won with their song, "Fly On The Wings Of Love".

  

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•  Toto Cutugno

  Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (born July 7, 1943) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter.

  

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•  André Claveau

  André Claveau (17 December 1915 - 4 July 2003) was born in Paris and was a very popular singer in France from the 1940s to 1960s. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep my love) with music composed by Pierre Delanoë and lyrics by Hubert Giraud.

  

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•  France Gall

  France Gall (born Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall on 9 October 1947 in Paris) is a popular French yé-yé singer. Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger.

  

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•  Jørgen Ingmann

  Jørgen Ingmann (born April 26, 1925) is a musician from Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked with Svend Asmussen, the jazz violinist, during the 1940s and part of the 1950s. During the late 1950s he changed his stage name to Jørgen Ingmann and his guitar. Under this name he recorded "Apache" in 1961, which charted at #4 in Canada and #2 in the United States. He remade Silvana Mangano's "Anna" with moderate US chart success.

  

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•  Carola Häggkvist

  Carola Maria Häggkvist (born 8 September 1966), better known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and occasional songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s, and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music. Her debut album, Främling, sold around one million copies and remains the biggest-selling album in Swedish music history. She has also worked as a songwriter.

  

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•  Tanel Padar

  Tanel Padar (born October 27, 1980) is an Estonian singer. He is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999. In 2000, he was one of the backing vocalists for Ines – who at the time was also his girlfriend – at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000.

  

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•  Secret Garden (duo)

  Secret Garden is an award winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also understood by some as Neo-classical music. Secret Garden features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland. The duo has sold over 3 million albums and won the Eurovision Song Contest for Norway's second time in 1995 with the composition "Nocturne".

  

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•  Katrina and the Waves

  Katrina and the Waves were a pop rock band formed in the 1980s, best known for their 1985 hit "Walking on Sunshine" and their 1997 Eurovision Song Contest victory with the song "Love Shine a Light".

  

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•  Katrina Leskanich

  Katrina Leskanich (born April 10, 1960 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American singer and musician, best known for being the lead singer and namesake of the pop band Katrina and the Waves.

  

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•  Riva (band)

  Riva was a pop rock band from Zadar, Croatia, then Yugoslavia, in the late 1980s. The group debuted on Zagrebfest 1988. Their song "Rock Me" won the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in Switzerland, with a score of 137 points. However, according to author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor in The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History it was a very unexpected win and BBC TV commentator Terry Wogan described it as "the death knell" for the contest.

  

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