John Gordon (musician)

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John Gordon (* 1967 ) is a Danish songwriter and music producer. For Germany he won the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) together with Julie Frost in 2010 with the song Satellite , which was selected by German television viewers for the competition and interpreted by Lena Meyer-Landrut .

Gordon's greatest success in his home country was the 1998 album Talking About the Weather together with Lene Dissing , from which singles are repeatedly played on Danish radio to this day. As a producer, he has so far also worked with Michael Learns to Rock and Simon Mathew , but also with Rihanna , Mary J. Blige , Mariah Carey and Beyoncé . Other German-language interpreters for whom John Gordon wrote alongside Lena are Diana Amft , Fady Maalouf , Mike Leon Grosch and Michelle Hunziker .

After the success at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, Gordon and Dissing were responsible for the English-language pop ballad Sleepless , with which the 17-year-old singer Anne Noa competed at the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2011, the Danish ESC preliminary decision. Noa finished second behind the A Friend group in London .

Gordon lives in Beder near Aarhus .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Song Contest: The winning song from the drawer. In: DiePresse.com. May 31, 2010, accessed January 21, 2018 .
  2. ^ Pernille Mainz: Dansker står bag tysk triumf . Politics . May 30, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  3. ↑ Siegfried Matlok : Dane cheers with Lena: He wrote her song . ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Nordschleswiger , May 30, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b Rasmus Sandvig Brask: Selvlært århusianer grand prix-hitter i Tyskland . Jyllands-Posten . May 29, 2010. Archived from the original on June 1, 2010. Retrieved on May 30, 2010.
  5. ↑ John Gordon . EMI Music Publishing . Archived from the original on April 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967