Hera Björk from Iceland,

siyah — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:05:23 +0000

One of the entries in the upcoming Dansk Melodi Grand Prix will be sung by Danish-Icelandic singer Hera Björk. Hera Björk is a big star in her original home country Iceland and has previously tried her luck in the Icelandic preselection, and was one of the backing singers who joined Eurobandid on stage in the 2008 Eurovision in Belgrade. Hera, living in Copenhagen, will now perform the entry “Someday” in the Danish national final 2009, to be aired on January the 31st.

The music of the song is composed by Jonas Gladnikoff, who has previously been the author of several national final entries around Europe, and the Danish songwriter Christina Schilling. The lyrics are by the Swedish songwriters Henrik Szabo and Daniel Nilsson.

Jonas Gladnikoff and Christina Schilling have been writing music together for a few years, and when they had finished the music for the song they contacted their friends Henrik Szabo and Daniel Nilsson to write the lyric, which resulted in the song Someday, a musical theatre inspired eurovision song about believing in yourself and in your dreams. In May 2008 the composers of the song met Hera Björk in Belgrade at the party of the Icelandic delegation, which resulted in a collaboration and eventually when the song was selected as one of the 10 entries in the Danish final, Hera was the number one choice of the songwriters to perform it.

“We are all very excited about the participation and we see the fact that we are a pan-Nordic coorportaion as a strenght for us.”

The team behind the song is without a doubt a team full of Eurovision veterans. No only have the four authors all previously been involved in the contest one way or another, but the final version of the song has been produced by one of the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, Lars “Dille” Diedricsson, and the vocals are produced by Danish Eurovision legend Søren Bundgaard of ‘Kirsten & Søren’.

Two of the backing singers are also well-known faces. Britta Bergström has previously been the backing singer in the Eurovision Song Contest together with Lena Philipsson and Kate Ryan, as well as a common face in the Swedish Melodifestivalen. Angela Holland has been the backing singer of Carola on all her most recent tours, an is just like Britta a frequent backing vocalist in the Swedish preselection. The three other backing singers will be Camilla Gottschalk, Christina Schilling and Annika Holmberg.

oikotimes

Melodi Grand Prix 2009 Finalists

siyah — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:03:05 +0000

DR, the Danish broadcaster, has announced the names of the ten hopefuls to represent the country in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. The Danish final will be held on 31st January in Herning.

Almost 700 songs were submitted to DR for the 2009 preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Out of them, six were selected to compete in the Melodi Grand Prix final. Four more artists, namely Jeppe Laursen, Jimmy Jorgensen, Marie Carmen Koppel and Johnny Deluxe, were invited by the broadcaster to participate.

The full 2009 Melodi Grand Prix final lineup is as follows:

* Niels Brinck – Believe again (Ronan Keating, Lars Halvor Jensen, Martin Larsson)
* Claus Christensen – Big bang baby (Troels Holdt, Lars Malm and Lise Cabble)
* Christina Undhjem – Underneath my skin (Brian Risberg Clausen and Mads Haugaard)
* Hera Bjork – Someday (Christina Schilling, Jonas Gladnikoff, Henrik Szabo and Daniel Nilsson)
* Sukkerchok – Det’ det’ (Lasse Lindorff, Mogens Binderup and Lise Cabble)
* Trine Jepsen – I never fall in love again (Claes Andreasson,Torbjorn Wassenius, Johan Sahlen and Niels Kvistborg )
* Jeppe Laursen – Lucky boy (Jeppe Laursen)
* Jimmy Jorgensen – Alice in the Wonderland (Mikael Erlandsson, Torbjorn Wassenius, Claes Andreasson and Birgitte Rye)
* Johnny Deluxe – Sindssyg (Noam Halby, Jakob Glaesner and Peter Kvint)
* Marie Carmen Koppel – Crying out your name (Marie Carmen Koppel and Dan Hemmer)

The Danish final wil be hosted by Birthe Kjær, who represented the country in 1989 together with with television and radio presenter, Felix Smith.

esctoday.com

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Hera Björk from Iceland,

Melodi Grand Prix 2009 Finalists

DR, the Danish broadcaster, has announced the names of the ten hopefuls to represent the country in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. The Danish final will be held on 31st January in Herning.