All of Norway mourns after the death of Jahn Teigen. The musician competed three times in the "Eurovision Song Contest" and was a celebrated star in his home country.
- Jahn Teig en was a superstar in his home country.
- The Norwegian competed three times in the Eurovision Song Contest .
- Now the musician has passed away .
Oslo - In the history of the " Eurovision Song Contest " he will remain immortal forever: Not only that Jahn Teigen competed three times in the singing competition, because he also provided a completely different award there. He quickly became a celebrated star in his home country. Now the Norwegian musician is dead.
Jahn Teigen dies in Sweden
The singer and songwriter, who is extremely popular in his home country, died on Monday at the age of 70 in a hospital in Ystad, Sweden, according to consistent media reports in Norway. Jahn Teigen became known to an international audience primarily through his three participations in the Eurovision Song Contest in the 70s and 80s. At his ESC appearance in Paris in 1978, he was the first participant who, after the introduction of the new points system ("douze points") in the music competition, went completely empty three years earlier and was the last to score .
Jahn Teigen was a celebrated star in his native Norway
Back then, this made him all the more popular in his Norwegian homeland: his ESC contribution “ Mil etter mil ” (“mile after mile”) made it to number one on the Norwegian charts, and even after that Teigen remained extremely popular with the Norwegians. In the past years he lived in seclusion in Ingelstorp near Ystad in Sweden.
Norway's Minister of Culture sees Jahn Teigen as "the largest" in the country
All of Norway had a close relationship with dough and its music left its mark on all Norwegians, culture minister Abid Raja wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. Teigen's close friend Morten Stensland was quoted by the radio broadcaster NRK as saying: " He was one of the largest we had ."
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Meanwhile, the German ESC star Lena Meyer-Landrut is causing excitement: not only that she posted a particularly hot photo again, in an interview the singer also spoke about her participation in the singing competition and struggled with her past.