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Dana
Becoming a big pop sensation in 1970 when she won the Eurovision Song Contest,
Dana charmed a nation with a string of sweet, dreamy ballads and bubblegum hits,
before turning her hand to politics in the 1990s. Raised in Derry, Northern
Ireland, she grew up watching her father play trumpet and her mother the piano
in a local dance band and started performing in talent contests when she was
just six-years-old. By 16 she was signed to Rex Records and released the singles
Sixteen, Come Along Murphy and Little Girl (which she wrote herself) and played
in folk and cabaret clubs frequen...
