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Birgit Brüel

1927 - 1996

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Birgit Brüel (6 October 1927 – 23 February 1996) was a Danish singer and actress who participated in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Brüel's professional career began in 1950 when she joined the Max Brüel Quartet as a jazz singer, and began training at the Danish Royal drama school. She married Brüel in 1951 and gave birth to twin daughters the following year (she also had one daughter from her first marriage, which had ended in divorce in 1949). During the 1950s she became well known as a theatre and screen actress, and between 1961 and 1966 she sang with the Danish Radio Jazz Group. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Birgit Brüel is the 1,461st most popular singer (up from 1,570th in 2019), the 525th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 544th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Danish Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Birgit Brüel ranks 1,461 out of 4,381. Before her are Philippe Jaroussky, Lisa Stansfield, Vikki Carr, Sylvia Vrethammar, Ivo Linna, and Gwyneth Jones. After her are Helmut Lotti, Annie Palmen, Arne Bendiksen, Biyouna, Bleona, and Izumi Sakai.

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Among people born in 1927, Birgit Brüel ranks 349. Before her are Tina Anselmi, Viola Myers, Thadée Cisowski, Michel Scheuer, Carmen Basilio, and Erol Keskin. After her are Eliseo Mouriño, Hirotugu Akaike, José Azcona del Hoyo, Dieter Henrich, Kay Kendall, and Vladimir Naumov. Among people deceased in 1996, Birgit Brüel ranks 255. Before her are Latifa al-Zayyat, Joonas Kokkonen, Anton Moravčík, Bohuslav Karlík, José dos Santos Lopes, and Olle Åhlund. After her are Bob Shaw, Václav Hovorka, Bernard Edwards, Kazadi Mwamba, Joe Seneca, and Bibi Besch.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Birgit Brüel ranks 525 out of 1,032. Before her are Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795), Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), Henrik Larsen (1966), Rasmus Højlund (2003), Oswald of Worcester (1000), and Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685). After her are Ragnhild Hveger (1920), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), Daniel Agger (1984), Dorrit Willumsen (1940), Nina Bang (1866), and Lise Nørgaard (1917).

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Among SINGERS In Denmark

Among singers born in Denmark, Birgit Brüel ranks 14. Before her are MØ (1988), Aneela Mirza (1974), Ulla Pia (1945), Gustav Winckler (1925), Tommy Seebach (1949), and Katy Bødtger (1932). After her are Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (1990), Dario Campeotto (1939), Emmelie de Forest (1993), Birthe Kjær (1948), Whigfield (1970), and Ellen Winther (1933).

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