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Jørgen Ingmann

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Jørgen Ingmann (born April 26, 1925, died 1990) is a musician from Copenhagen, Denmark.

He worked with Svend Asmussen the jazz violinist during the 40s and part of the 50s.

During the late-50s he changed his stage name to "Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar". With this name he recorded "Apache" in 1961, which charted at #4 in Canada and #1 in the United States.

Songs of his included "Tequilla" (which he also recorded during the 60s, with the Champs) and a version of Pinetop Perkins' "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" (from 1962).

Together with his wife Grethe, he won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963 representing Denmark with the song "Dansevise " (Dancing tune) with music by Otto Francker and lyric by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen .

The couple met in 1955, were married in 1956 and got divorced in 1975.


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