Emmelie De Forest

Rumored to become the great-granddaughter from the 19th century U.K. monarch Queen Victoria, folk-pop vocalist/songwriter Emmelie de Forest received the famed Eurovision Track Contest in-may 2013. Given birth to in Randers, Denmark to a Swedish dad and Danish mom, de Forest obtained several years performing and conducting knowledge when she became a member of the Steve Cameron Gospel Choir. Aged 14, she fulfilled the Glaswegian folk musician Fraser Neill — a Danish citizen since the middle-’90s — at a celebration in Ajstrup as well as the duo spent another five years touring little venues, eventually offering around 100 copies from the self-pressed record, Emmelie de Forest & Fraser Neill. Even though the duo shifted to Copenhagen in 2012 they ceased performing together to permit de Forest additional time to study on the city’s Complete Vocal Institute. In January 2013 she got component in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, your competition which eventually delivered her to Malmö, Sweden as the Danish entrant to the ultimate from the Eurovision Tune Competition. Released through General weekly before her success, Only Teardrops included the tube and drum-fueled earning song from the same name and reached the very best Five from the Danish record charts.