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Ulla Pia

1945 - 2020

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Ulla Pia Nielsen (17 February 1945 – 22 August 2020), known simply as Ulla Pia, was a Danish singer, best known internationally for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest. Ulla Pia was born in Copenhagen, where she started her career as a vocalist with bands and orchestras. In the mid-1960s she was singing with jazz musician Finn Ziegler, and it was suggested in 1966 that she enter a song in the Danish Eurovision selection, Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. She performed the song "Stop - mens legen er go'" ("Stop, While the Going's Good"), and to her surprise, emerged the clear winner. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ulla Pia is the 1,296th most popular singer (up from 1,302nd in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 481st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Danish Singer.

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Among singers, Ulla Pia ranks 1,296 out of 4,381. Before her are Clara Nunes, Mississippi John Hurt, Martha Mödl, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Billy Paul, and Siti Nurhaliza. After her are Valentina Monetta, Boz Scaggs, Nate Dogg, Gustav Winckler, Skeeter Davis, and Larisa Dolina.

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Among people born in 1945, Ulla Pia ranks 423. Before her are Meira Kumar, Gloria Jones, Jean-Marc Guillou, Robert T. Bakker, Vincent Nichols, and Julio Morales. After her are Ágnes Hranitzky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Karol Jokl, Nigel Terry, Gennady Khazanov, and Helga Vlahović. Among people deceased in 2020, Ulla Pia ranks 437. Before her are Peter Bonetti, Inna Makarova, Tom Belsø, Nate Brooks, Vaughan Jones, and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. After her are Brent Scowcroft, Joan Feynman, Ernst Jean-Joseph, Laisenia Qarase, Claire Bretécher, and José Luis Capón.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Ulla Pia ranks 477 out of 1,032. Before her are Ole Ritter (1941), Tom Belsø (1942), Aneela Mirza (1974), Christen Andreas Fonnesbech (1817), Vivi Bach (1939), and Ivan Nielsen (1956). After her are Inger Andersen (1958), Jacob Ellehammer (1871), Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1817), Gustav Winckler (1925), Knud Kristensen (1880), and Christian Poulsen (1980).

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Among SINGERS In Denmark

Among singers born in Denmark, Ulla Pia ranks 10. Before her are Kim Larsen (1945), Gitte Hænning (1946), Raquel Rastenni (1915), Lauritz Melchior (1890), MØ (1988), and Aneela Mirza (1974). After her are Gustav Winckler (1925), Tommy Seebach (1949), Katy Bødtger (1932), Birgit Brüel (1927), Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (1990), and Dario Campeotto (1939).

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