Leonora (singer)

Leonora 2019

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Love is forever   DK 16 01.03.2019 (2 weeks)

Leonora (actually Leonora Colmor Jepsen , born October 3, 1998 in Hellerup ) is a Danish singer and figure skater .

Life

Born and raised in Hellerup, where she still lives today, Leonora also graduated from Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium there. She likes to write songs, which she then presents in cafes, libraries and at small school concerts.

As a figure skater, she took part in the 2016 Junior World Figure Skating Championships and the 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Riga. In December 2016, she and her brother Linus won gold medals at the Danish national figure skating competition Danske Mesterskaber . Today she is no longer active as a figure skater, but as a figure skating trainer and choreographer.

In 2019 she took part as a singer at the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2019 . Her song Love Is Forever was written by Lise Cabble , Melanie Wehbe and Emil Lei and is sung in four different languages, English , French , Danish and German . In the end she was able to reach the superfinal and win the preliminary decision there with 42%. She represented Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv , Israel . She was able to qualify for the final and reached twelfth place there.

Discography

Singles

• 2019: Love Is Forever

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leonora in the Danish charts
2. ↑ Leonora Colmor Jepsen in the International Skating Union
3. ↑ 20-year favorit vinder Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
4. ↑ Isdans: Gentofte-søskende tog DM-guld
5. ↑ DMGP 2019: Portræt and interview with Leonora - 'Love is forever'
6. ↑ Evert Groot: Leonora is Denmark's hopeful for Tel Aviv! In: eurovision.tv. February 23, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .