Tommy Seebach, born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer.
15 Facts About Tommy Seebach
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Tommy Seebach is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for numerous contributions to the Danish qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, which he won three times.
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Tommy Seebach played the piano with various orchestras and groups, sometimes going under the name of "Boogie-Woogie-Tommy".
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Tommy Seebach gained mainstream popularity in Denmark in 1965, when he became a member of the band Sir Henry and his Butlers, writing many of their most popular hits.
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Tommy Seebach worked as a recording engineer at the Rosenberg Studio in Copenhagen and amongst other projects recorded the Icecross album there in 1973.
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Tommy Seebach competed seven times in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix.
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In 1979, his song "Disco Tango", coauthored with Keld Heick, and performed by Tommy Seebach, came in as no 1.
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In 1993, Tommy Seebach won the competition again, performing the song "Under stjernerne pa himlen", written together with Keld Heick.
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Tommy Seebach had submitted the song several times before, but had been turned down.
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At the time, the public interest in the Song Contest, deemed cheesy by the cultural elite, was fading, and as an icon of the contest, Tommy Seebach's popularity had been on the wane for some time.
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The poor result meant that Denmark did not qualify for the ESC 1994, and Tommy Seebach was widely criticized, after experiencing a brief rise in popularity, and never competed again.
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Tommy Seebach toured the country's discotheques at that time and found cult interest in his old hits among a new, younger audience.
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The marriage broke down when Tommy Seebach developed a serious addiction to alcohol.
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Tommy Seebach's son wrote a song about him called "Den jeg er", stating what a major influence his father had in his life in spite of his addiction.
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Tommy Seebach died at the age of 53 at the amusement park Bakken, where he had been head of musical entertainment for several years.