Dana Rosemary Scallon
Dana Rosemary Scallon was born in Islington, London, England, UK on August 30th, 1951 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 73, Dana Rosemary Scallon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951), known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer and former politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004. While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything".
It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career. She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999.
Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count.
In 2019, Dana announced she was back in the studio and was recording a brand new album, her first in many years.
'My Time' was released 1st November 2019.
Personal life
On 5 October 1978 she married hotelier Damien Scallon at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry, where her parents were married. The couple first met in 1970 at his Ardmore Hotel in Newry, where a reception took place following a "Dana Place" street-naming ceremony in nearby Hilltown, to honour her recent Eurovision success. After a three-week honeymoon in Grenada the newlyweds set up home in Rostrevor, County Down. They have four children: Grace (born 1981), Ruth (born 1983), John James (born 1984), and Robert (born 1989).
The Scallons currently live in Claregalway, County Galway.
The 1970s – Eurovision victory and pop stardom – a collection of snapshots from the 1970s.
Scallon was invited back to perform again next year by Tom McGrath, the promoter of the Irish National Song Contest, who felt that one of the submitted songs, "All Kinds of Everything," would suit her. The Irish contest was a huge success in her second attempt to win. On Saturday, the eighteen-year-old schoolgirl performed the song at the Eurovision finals in the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, drawing an estimated audience of two hundred million. She was the last of twelve contestants to perform that night while sitting on a stool and sporting an embroidered white mini-dress. With 32 points, she was crowned the winner with 32 points, beating the favourite, Mary Hopkin of the United Kingdom with 26 points, and Germany's Katja Ebstein with 12. Julio Iglesias of Spain finished in fourth place with Guy Bonnet of France and Henri Dès of Switzerland. This was Ireland's first of a series of seven wins in the competition.
Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith, two Dublin printworkers, performed the winning song. Ray Horricks was involved in the single's development and Phil Coulter arranged it. The contest was announced on March 14th, a top-of-the-Irish singles chart before the competition began and remained there for nine weeks. On the 18th and the 25th of April, the UK singles chart spent two weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. It was also successful in Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia. More than two million units were sold as a result of the song's success.
Scallon's debut album All Kinds of Everything, which was recorded at Decca Studio in West Hampstead, London, over the weekend of 25 April 1970, was released in June and included four tracks co-written by the singer, as well as a new recording of the album's title track. Jerry Lordan's "I Will Follow You" failed to chart in September after her follow-up single was released. On the album Barry Ryan 3, the song that put an end to her one-hit wonder fame was discovered. Paul Ryan's twin brother, "Who Put the Lights Out," was sent to her by her stepfather Harold Davison, her business partner. Her version, which was cut with Barry Ryan's producer Bill Landis, was a good comeback car, landing her at #5 in Ireland. On March 13, 1971, it became a #14 hit in the United Kingdom. There were three years of failed singles followed by the Irish chart, with "Sunday Monday Tuesday" a top hit in December 1973. Due to her agent's inability, she suggested that she work with Bell Records' former chief Dick Leahy on his new label, GTO Records.
"Please Tell Him That I Said Hello," written by Mike Shepstone and Peter Dibbens, made her debut on GTO. It was #7 in Ireland within a month of its unveiling in October 1974. It took until the new year before making its UK chart debut in January. It soared to #8 on March 15, 1975, after being boosted by Top of the Pops' appearances on 6 February and 13 March. This UK's success brought the track a resurgent of esteem in Ireland, where it climbed to #7 again in February. She also recorded a German version of the song. In the same year, "Spiel nicht mit mir undigested" became a #27 hit in the United States. Scallon produced "Wenn ein Mädchen verliebt ist" (Germany, 1971), "Tu Me Dis I Love You" (French, 1975), and a Japanese version of "It's Gonna be a Cold Cold Christmas" in 1976.
"Are You Still Mad at Me," Geoff Stephens/Roger Greenaway's composition, fell short of the chart. She then wrote another song about her. "It's Gonna Be a Cold Christmas" was announced four weeks prior to Christmas and gave her her her second-highest UK chart position when it reached #2 on December 27, 1975. It came in third place in Ireland, and the following year it was ranked #12. Scallon's two awards include Best Female Singer in the United Kingdom from the NME and Best Female Singer from the TV Times. The success lasted into 1976, with Eric Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" being a UK #31 hit on March 13th. However, she lost her voice in September when promoting her new single, "Fairytale." Her left vocal cord, which had been cauterized the year before, needed urgent surgery to remove what appeared to be a non-malignant growth as well as a small portion of the cord itself. Some journals were also shocked to learn that she might not perform again. Despite her inability to fully promote "Fairytale," a disco number written by Paul Greedus and produced by Barry Blue, it became a UK #13 hit on Christmas Day and was also her highest international success since "All Kinds of Everything." But after she had failed to recover her singing voice after the accident, she contacted Florence Wiese Norberg, a respected singing coach, but she had trouble finding her voice again. With her help, she resurrected live performances at Caesar's Palace in Luton in December 1977.
After finishing work on Heatwave's second album, which was released in April 1978, Barry Blue began work on her fifth album, which was released in April 1978. She had a last session at Utopia Studios in London two weeks before her wedding day in October. The Girl is Back was her first LP she made that contained no cover designs, and Dave Jordan's "Something's Cookin' in the Kitchen" became the first UK hit single, peaking at #44 on April 14th. A disappointing result after a marketing campaign that included a new look for Scallon, a music video, life-size posters in major cities, and retailers receiving bonus Flexi discs. It came in #22nd in Ireland. The album's title track was also announced, and "I Can't Get Over Getting Over You," which she performed live on Top of the Pops in October, her last appearance on the program. Barry Blue and Lynsey de Paul's song "Thieves of Paris" has been named one of the album's best tracks on the album. She also wrote "Crossword Puzzle," a top-five hit in Thailand in 1972.
Since Pope John Paul II returned to Ireland in September 1979, she began a new phase in her career, sparking her to write "Totus Tuus," the Irish chart-topper.
Scallon had been a well-known celebrity since winning the 1970 Eurovision gold medal. In Flight of the Doves (1971), a children's adventure film starring Ron Moody and Jack Wild and directed by Ralph Nelson, she appeared as a tinker girl. She has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, and a week of sell-out shows at the London Palladium during both summers and seasonal pantomimes as well as performing in summer and seasonal pantomimes. Scallon has performed extensively in cabaret venues and was named Top Female Vocalist at the National Club Acts Awards in 1979. A day with Dana in 1974 and a four-series of Wake Up Sunday in 1979. In 1977, she hosted a series of I Believe in Music for BBC Radio.