Emmelie de Forest
Emmelie de Forest (born 28 February 1993 Randers as Emmelie Charlotte Victoria Engström ) is a Danish pop singer that for Denmark the Euro Vision Song Contest won in 2013 with the song Only teardrops.
Life and career
Emmelie de Forest is the daughter of a Danish woman and a Swede, Ingvar Engström (1938-2010), who took the surname de Forest in old age. Her parents divorced when she was very young. De Forest singing since the age of nine, including a church and a gospel choir. In her 14 years she collaborated with Scottish musician Fraser Neill. Over the next four years they performed together at various festivals, concerts and various cultural sites.
De Forest grew up with her mother in Mariager ( North Jutland ). She has four siblings. At the age of 18, she moved in 2011 to the Danish capital Copenhagen to study singing at the Complete Vocal Institute. Since 2012, she writes lyrics and took first songs in the studio. Emmelie de Forest also plays guitar.
On January 26, 2013, it won with Teardrops Only the Danish preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö nine competitors by the audience rating. The jury rating it on a par with the favorites and runners Mohamed Ali. On February 1, 2013 her song rose in the Danish charts at # 2. In March 2013, she signed a recording contract with Universal Music and released on May 6, 2013 her first solo album, also titled Only teardrops. The album was produced by Peter Bjørnskov, Jacob Glaesner, Thomas Stensgaard and Frederik Thaae. In May 2013, it represented her native country at the ESC, reached the semi-finals as well as the highest score in the final on May 18, 2013, which she won with 281 points.
It was originally a part of the marketing strategy for Euro Vision Song Contest 2013 that de Forest was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England by a connection between King Edward VII and an unknown Austrian princess, and also akin to the British politician Maurice Arnold de Forest (1879 -1968 ). Since, however, found no evidence for the contribution of the competent Danish Broadcasting Danmarks Radio (DR ) again rejected this part of marketing.
The selected upon the occurrence of the Danish finals for the two drummers uniform jackets were detected after recording as Waffen-SS uniforms. In the video strips were überpixelt on the sleeves and used for the ESC final other jackets. The Danish Broadcasting apologized and explained the costume choice as unintentional mistake, the jackets would come from the DR fund for a historical TV series.