Birgitte Einarsen is a Norwegian singer and

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artist from Helgeroa in

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county. She was born in 1975. Birgitte has performed in popular musicals like Grease, Fame and

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. She has also done the show ''My First, My Last, My Everything''. She became famous both in

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and abroad in 2003, following her performance in that year's

Melodi Grand Prix Melodi Grand Prix (), commonly known as Grand Prix and MGP, sometimes as Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix ( no, Norsk Melodi Grand Prix), is an annual music competition organised by Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK). It dete ...

, which is used to select the Norwegian entry for the

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. Her entry was the uptempo disco song ''

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'', which is the phrase used every year when the ESC hosts address millions of viewers across

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. As the title, almost all the lyrics were a reference to the Song Contest, usually direct quotes from past Eurovision entries, or else from other songs sung by former Eurovision participants. The song was written by Arve Furset, who also composed the winning song by

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. In 2006, Birgitte sang again, in

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, performing another disco tune, ''Saturday''. Her entry did not win direct entrance to the national final, but going through the Second Chance round, it did ultimately qualify. Singing in the grand final, she failed to make the top four.

External links

Listen to ''Saturday''
(in Norwegian)
MGP official site
1975 births Living people Melodi Grand Prix contestants 21st-century Norwegian singers 21st-century Norwegian women singers Musicians from Larvik {{norway-singer-stub

See also

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