Saturday, April 20, 2019

Denmark - Leonora - Love Is Forever

12 - 120 pts / 10 - 94 pts in semi 2
Leonora (Leonora Colmor Jepsen) is the winner of the 2019 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2019 with the song Love Is Forever. The song is in English but has a few French, German and Danish mots thrown in.
The song is written by Lise Cabble, Melanie Wehbe and Emil Lei.
2nd digital release image
The entry was released as a digital single on February 1.
Here's the lyric video (DMGP Youtube channel)

A version recorded with Livestrings (the Strings version) was released on April 19.

DRI DMGP
The final of the Danish Melodi Grand Prix was held on February 23.
You can listen to the participating songs here at DR's Grand Prix pages. All songs have been released  through the usual digital sources. In some territories the songs are available as a digital album.

The songwriters:
Lisa Cabble has (co) written many Danish Melodi Grand Prix entries and some made it to Eurovision. And one even won the whole thing.
1995 - Fra Mols Til Skagen - Aud Wilken
2011 - New Tomorrow - A Friend In London
2013 - Only Teardrops - Emmelie De Forest
Melanie Wehbe (co) wrote a few Melodifestivalen tunes includion the glorious Victorious by Lina Hedlund (MF 2019)

Versions
Love Is Forever - original
- digital release, Tel Aviv 2CD
Love Is Forever - Strings version with Livestrings
- digital release
Love Is Forever - karaoke
- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Charts
Denmark Tracklisten top 40: 16, 30, -
France top 200 (IFOP): 128, -
Scottish singles top 100 (OCC): 77, -

First digital release image
Links and sources
Denmark 2018 has links to all Danish entries from 2009 on.
DR Melodi Grand Prix pages
Leonora Jepsen FB, Insta

1 comment:

  1. I just noticed that Gréta Salóme plays the violin on the studio recording of "Love Is Forever" 🤓

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