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Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg (June 10, 1926 – May 4, 2010) was a Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed away at the end of the 1960s. However, she was still an active actress in the 1980s. Borg represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 in Cannes. Borg was born on Södermalm in Stockholm and began her career in the Södermalm-based variety show group Vårat gäng ("Our Gang") after having won a song competition which the magazine Vecko-Revyn organised in 1943. In 1945, she...

http://www.battleofbritainmemorial.com Battle of Britain Memorial was founded in April 2009 in Toulouse, France, by the will of three friends (Paul, guitars ; Ludo, voice ; and Vincent, drums) who simply wanted to play some music together. They scored several songs but their true identity emerged when Rémi (bass) joined the band in October 2009. Led by mutual influences, from post-rock (Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky…) to screamo (Envy, Impure Wilhelmina…) and post-hardcore (Neurosis, Cult of Luna…), the band established a live set and did its first concert in May 2010. BOBM performed several gigs near Toulouse in 2010, with bands...

Brita Koivunen (31 August 1931 – 12 April 2014) won a singing contest in Helsinki 1954. Her first record was Nainen - mies the same year. 1956 came out her breakthrough record Suklaasydän. It became the second ever gold disc in Finland. Her other known songs are Mamma, tuo mies mua tuijottaa, Käy tanssimaan, Mua lemmitkö vielä oi Kustaa?, Troikka ja Katinka. 1960 she was voted the best singer by the readers of Iskelmä magazine. She was also acting in music films like Suuri sävelparaati and Iskelmäkaruselli pyörii. In the sixties she was in a band Matit ja Maijat alongside...

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) is a musical ensemble featuring ukuleles in different registers. They play and sing music from a variety of musical genres, all on the ukulele. Founded in 1985, the orchestra has since performed in many venues worldwide, including New York's Carnegie Hall[3] (2009, 2012), the Sydney Opera House[4] (2012), London's Royal Albert Hall (2008, 2012) and Glastonbury Festival. TV appearances have included: Jools Holland's Hootenanny, BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms, Blue Peter, The Slammer, Richard & Judy, This Morning and Skins. The band was formed "to challenge people’s expectations of the ukulele," according to...