"Det vackraste" (lit. "The Most Beautiful Thing" eng. "Living in a Dream") is a

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. It was originally sung by Swedish pop singer

Cecilia Vennersten Cecilia Birgitta Vennersten-Ingemansson (born 26 September 1970 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish pop singer. Cecilia Vennersten performed the Mariah Carey song "Hero" on ''Sikta mot stjärnorna'' in 1994. Her career started with a second place fini ...

and finished second in the

Melodifestivalen 1995 Sweden's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, held in Dublin, Ireland, was Jan Johansen with the song "Se på mig". Before Eurovision Melodifestivalen 1995 Melodifestivalen 1995 was the selection for the 35th song to represent Sw ...

, the Swedish selections for

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. The song was released as a

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and stayed 47 weeks in the Swedish singles chart total, including seven weeks at number-one. It also stayed at

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for 26 weeks during the period 29 April-21 October 1995, with 3rd place as best result there. The song was awarded a Swedish Grammy Award,

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, for Best Song of 1995. In Norway, "Det vackraste" peaked at number 2. The song is written by

Nanne Grönvall Marianne Elisabeth Grönwall (, née ''Nordqvist''; born 18 May 1962), known by her stage name Nanne (), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Biography Grönvall's musical career started in the 1980s group Sound of Music. The trio participated twice ...

Peter Grönvall One More Time is a Swedish pop group, formed in 1991. Its members are Peter Grönvall, his wife Nanne Grönvall and Maria Rådsten. A fourth member, Thérèse Löf, left the group shortly after the first album was released. In 1992, they bega ...

and

Maria Rådsten Ingela ''Maria'' Kristina Rådsten-Ekman (born 6 April 1966) is a Swedish singer. She began her musical career with the group Peter's Pop Squad. Later, she would become part of One More Time, with which she achieved great international success. ...

. They also form the pop group One More Time, and they recorded the song with English lyrics in 1997, called "Living in a Dream". In 1999,

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artist

Dana Winner Dana Winner (born Chantal Ernestine Vanlee on 10 February 1965 in Hasselt) is a Belgian singer. Biography In 1990 she released her first single ''Op het dak van de wereld'', (Dutch: "On the roof of the world"), a cover of The Carpenters' '' To ...

recorded another English version of the song, now named "I'll Sing a Song Today", about

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. In 2005, ten years after the original performance by Cecilia Vennersten, a

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of the original lyrics was recorded by Swedish

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and schlager singer

Lotta Engberg Anna Charlotte "Lotta" Engberg (born Pedersen; 5 March 1963) is a Swedish singer. She represented Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with " Boogaloo" after winning Melodifestivalen 1987. She also tried many times in Melodifestivalen in 1984 ...

on her

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'' Kvinna & man''.

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