Malene Mortensen
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Malene Winter Mortensen (b. May 23, 1982) is a Danish singer. She made her entrance into the danish music scene in 2001, during the first season in the danish edition of BBC's Star for a night. She made it to the finals, through her rendition of Molokos "Sing it back". The following year, she entered Danish Melodi Grand Prix, the danish preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Although her song "Vis mig hvem du er" performed great in the preliminaries, it was a full-scale failure at The Eurovision Song Contest 2002, in it's English version, "Tell me who you are". Her song received a mere seven points, the lowest performance among the contestants, inevitably making her the loser of the show.
The unforeseen eurovision turnout was a blow to her previous archievements, but it didn't make her give up her musical career. In 2003 she released her debut album called "Paradise". This album revolving around modern jazz, was supported by three of Denmark's best known jazz musicians : Niels Lan Doky (piano), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass) and Alex Riel (drums).da:Malene Mortensen nl:Malene Mortensen