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1980 Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague, Netherlands, and was organised by host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) – which agreed to stage the event after , having won in both and , declined to host it for a second successive year – and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest was held at the Nederlands Congresgebouw on 19 April 1980 and was hosted by Dutch actress Marlous Fluitsma, although each song was introduced by a presenter from the participating nation (in some cases, this was the same person providing the commentary). Nineteen countries took part this year, with and the previous year's winner deciding not to participate, and returning. , notably, made its only appearance in the contest. The winner was with the song "What's Another Year", sung by Johnny Logan and written by Shay Healy. Location , the winner of the 1979 contest, declined to host it for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlous Fluitsma
Maria Louise Clara Albertine Fluitsma (born 12 December 1946), known as Marlous Fluitsma, is a Dutch actress, known for her roles in Dutch films and on television in various Dutch language series. She was well-known to Europeans outside the Netherlands for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, held in The Hague. Early life Fluitsma grew up in Nijmegen where her father was a teacher. After her studies at the Stage Acting Academy in Maastricht, she played for the Groot Limburgs Toneel (the largest acting group in Limburg province) and for the Haagse Comedie (The Hague Comedy Group). Career credits She became better known when she played the lead role in a play written by Herman van Veen: ''De Spinse'' (1973). She appeared in the movies ''Uit elkaar'' (1979) and ''Ik ben Joep Meloen'' (1981), as well as the television series ''Pommetje Horlepiep'' (1976) and ''De Fabriek'' (1981). On 19 April 1980, Fluitsma presented the Eurovision Song Contest in the Congresgebouw in The Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1980 - Katja Ebstein
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. Based on the Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951, Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 (apart from ), making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. Active members of the EBU, as well as invited associate members, are eligible to compete, and 52 countries have participated at least once. Each participating broadcaster sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eládio ClÃmaco
Eládio Taboas ClÃmaco (born 27 October 1941, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese television presenter best known for hosting ''Festival da Canção'', ''Jeux Sans Frontières'', commentating on the Eurovision Song Contest for RTP viewers, and providing voice narration for many television documentaries. Career After several years of training in theatre and cinema, ClÃmaco joint RTP in 1972 and began hosting the entertainment show ''Domingo à Noite'' which was broadcast from Teatro Maria Matos. In 1976 ClÃmaco began hosting ''Festival da Canção'' (Portuguese hits for the Eurovision Song Contest), he also presented ''Jeux Sans Frontières'' for Portuguese viewers from 1979 until 1997 and commented on the Eurovision Song Contest for RTP viewers between 1976 and 2006 on 14 occasions, during the presentation of the Dutch televote in the '' Eurovision Song Contest 2006'', ClÃmaco didn't translate properly the gay remarks televote presenter Paul de Leeuw gave to presenter Sakis Rouvas a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, and businessman. Edmonds first became known as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg before moving to BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented various radio shows and light-entertainment television programmes across 50 years, originally working for the BBC, later Sky UK and Channel 4. His television work includes ''Top of the Pops'' (1972–1978), '' Multi-Coloured Swap Shop'' (1976–1982), ''Top Gear'' (1979–1980), '' The Late, Late Breakfast Show'' (1982–1986), '' Telly Addicts'' (1985–1998), '' The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow'' (1988–1990), '' Noel's House Party'' (1991–2000), and ''Deal or No Deal'' (2005–2016). Early life Edmonds was born in Ilford, Essex, the son of Dudley Edmonds, a headmaster who worked in Hainault, London, and Lydia Edmonds, an art teacher. He attended Glade Primary School in Clayhall and Brentwood School in Brentwood, Essex.Rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolin Reiber
Carolin Reiber (born 2 November 1940) is a German television presenter. Biography Reiber works in Germany as television presenter on German broadcaster ARD and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). Television magazines as ''Jetzt red' i'', ''Unser Land'' and ''Die lustigen Musikanten'' with Maxl Graf were shows with Reiber on German broadcaster BR From 1984 to 1993 she presented on German broadcaster BR magazine ''Carolins Fleckerlteppich'' and then from 1993 ''Bayerntour''. On German broadcaster ZDF Reiber presented show ''Volkstümliche Hitparade'' and later show ''Wunschkonzert der Volksmusik''. Reiber married Luitpold Maier and has two sons. Awards * 1983: Goldene Kamera * 1987: Bambi ''Bambi'' is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1923 book ''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten ... * 1990: Bambi, special award * 2003: ''Krone d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1986
The Eurovision Song Contest 1986 was the 31st edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Bergen, Norway, following the country's victory at the with the song "La det swinge" by Bobbysocks! Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the contest was held at Grieghallen on 3 May 1986 and was hosted by previous Norwegian contestant Ã…se Kleveland. Twenty countries took part in this years contest with and deciding not to participate and and returning. also competed for the first time this year. The winner was with the song "J'aime la vie" by Sandra Kim. Belgium was the last of the original 7 countries that had competed in the very first contest to win. Aged 13, Kim was the youngest ever Eurovision winner. Current rules require Eurovision Song Contest participants to be at least 16, so unless the rule is changed, Kim's record will never be broken. In the lyrics of her song, Kim claimed to be 15 years o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1966
The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the 11th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg (city), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), the contest was held at the Villa Louvigny on 5 March 1966 and was hosted by Luxembourgish television presenter Josiane Chen. Eighteen countries participated in the contest, the same that had competed the year before. The winner was with the song "Merci, Chérie", performed and composed by Udo Jürgens, and written by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger. This was Udo Jürgens third consecutive entry in the contest, finally managing to score a victory for his native country Austria. Austria would not go on to win again until the edition. This was also the first winning song to be performed in German langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…se Kleveland
Ã…se Maria Kleveland (born 18 March 1949) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist, politician and activist. A well-known folk singer and traditional guitarist in Norway, she was appointed Minister of Culture in Norway in 1990, and held the position until 1996, representing the Labour Party under the Gro Harlem Brundtland administration. She was also president of the Swedish Film Institute from 1999 to 2006. In June 2007 she became chairman of the board of Human-Etisk Forbund, the Norwegian humanist organization, a position she held until 2013. Personal life Kleveland was born in Stockholm, Sweden to Eva Hansson, a bookkeeper from Sweden, and Olaf Kleveland, a civil engineer from Norway who had fled to Sweden in 1943 because of the Nazi occupation and found refuge with relatives. In 1957 Kleveland and her family moved to Romerike, northeast of Oslo, where her father got a job working at the Institute for Atomic Energy. In a 1977 interview she describes how her parents shared equally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector (musician)
Heikki Veikko Harma (born 20 April 1947 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish singer-songwriter who has also distinguished himself as a translator of song lyrics, but has written popular lyrics of his own too. To the public he is better known by the name Hector, which he has used since the release of his 1965 debut single "Palkkasoturi", a Finnish translation of Buffy Sainte-Marie's " Universal Soldier". His 1974 album ''Hectorock I'' became the fastest-selling record in Finnish history, selling 50,000 units within a few months. Hector was at the height of his popularity in the first half of the 1970s, but his steady string of recordings provided occasional hits well into the 1990s. In the 2000s he made a strong return to popularity with ''Ei selityksiä'', which became one of his most successful albums. In 2007 he made a farewell tour on big arenas, but has performed occasionally after that too. In 2011 he made a massive comeback tour and released a new album ''Hauras'' (Fragile) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Elfving
Ulf Elfving (born 27 November 1942 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and broadcaster."Elfving, Ulf", ''Nationalencyklopedin'' biographical entry, retrieved 24 March 2014 Elfving started his career in the 1960s. He was programme manager of the Swedish charts between 1966 and 1973 and Record Mirror in the 1970s. He hosted the Melodifestivalen in 1977, 1978 and 1979 and provided the Swedish commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest on eight occasions between 1977 until 1983 and again in 1986. Until the late 1990s Elfving was a radio show host on Sveriges Radio P4 P4 (''pe fyra'') is a national radio channel produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. P4 was started in 1987 as a network of regional stations, but national programming was added in 1993 when P3 was relaunched as a specialist yo .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen De Mylius
Jørgen de Mylius (born 5 March 1946) is a Danish radio and TV personality that is best known for his work in connection with the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a host and commentator. Sometimes he is referred to as Jørgen Mylius or by his nickname Mylle. Biography He was born on March 5, 1946, at Frederiksberg, Denmark and graduated a mathematical Student from Østre Borgerdyd Gymnasium in 1964. In 1968 he finished an education as journalist. In January 1963 he started working for Danmarks Radio, DR. Radio shows such as ''Top 20'', ''Efter Skoletid'', ''For de unge'' were created within the first 18 months. He also worked as a radio reporter from among other U.S., Japan, France and Luxembourg up until 1977. In April of the same year he began working in the television department of DR. His debut as host was in 1978 where he hosted the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. All in all he has hosted 11 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix competitions and commentated 19 Eurovision Song Contest competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Cori
Beatrice Cori (real name Beatrice Cagnoni) (March 20, 1943 - February 8, 2000) was a television presenter and model. She introduced the Italian entry sung by Alan Sorrenti in Eurovision Song Contest 1980 The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague, Netherlands, and was organised by host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) – which agreed to stage the event af .... References External links * 1943 births 2000 deaths Italian female models Italian television presenters Italian women television presenters {{model-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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