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Kjell Jennstig (born February 17, 1960) is a Swedish musician and composer/songwriter. As a musician he is mostly known as guitarist in Swedish motorcycle group, Kenneth & the Knutters. As a composer/songwriter, he has written for a number of Swedish performers, including
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, Caracola, Grönwalls, Blender and Caroline Wennergren. Jennstig has participated three times in the
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preselection competition, ''Eirodziesma'': * In 2007, his song "
Questa Notte Latvia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Questa notte" written by Kjell Jennstig, Torbjörn Wassenius and Francesca Russo. The song was performed by the group Bonaparti.lv. The Latvian broadcaster Latvijas Televīz ...
", written together with Torbjörn Wassenius and Fransesca Russo and performed by Bonaparti.lv, won the competition. The song was then in the Eurovision Song Contest final in Helsinki where it ended 16th. * In 2008, his song "You really got me going" ended second. It was written with Leif Goldkuhl and performed by "Aisha" (
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). * In 2011, Jennstig had two songs in the Spanish Eurovision Song Contest preselection (''Destino Eurovision''): "Evangeline" and "Golden Cadillac". "Evangeline" qualified for the final where it was performed by "Auryn". *In 2013, he had a song in the Swedish ESC preselection, ''Melodifestivalen''. It won its semifinal and went to the final where it ended in tenth place . The following table shows Kjells Eurovision entries so far:


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