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    The Sopot International Song Festival or Sopot Festival (later called Sopot Music Festival Grand Prix, Sopot Top of the Top Festival from 2012–13 and Polsat...
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    Intervision Song Contest (category Sopot International Song Festival)
    in Sopot, Poland. The ISC was organised from 1965 to 1968 and again from 1977 to 1980. Since 1977, it replaced the Sopot International Song Festival (Sopot...
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    Forest Opera (category Sopot International Song Festival)
    and song festivals. After World War I and almost till the end of World War II it was a place of operatic festivals (Zoppot Festspiele) and Sopot was recognised...
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    Helena Vondráčková (category Sopot International Song Festival winners)
    Vondráčková utilized "Malovany dzbanku" as her entrant at the Sopot International Song Festival - billed that year as the Intervision Song Contest - where...
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  • into a dixieland band. Komeda appeared with Grzewiński on the I Jazz Festival in Sopot in August 1956, but he achieved success performing with saxophonist...
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    at the Sopot International Song Festival and was named the best artist of 1963 by Polish journalists. In 1964 she took second place in Sopot for "Grande...
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    became one of her biggest hits. List of historic rock festivals Sopot International Song Festival Golden Orpheus Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision...
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    Robert Charlebois (category Sopot International Song Festival winners)
    joual, are funny, relying upon plays on words. He won the Sopot International Song Festival in 1970. In 1970, he sang with Italian singer Patty Pravo...
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    he participated in the Sopot International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland, with the medley "Showtime on Broadway". In 1968, he won the Dutch national...
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    first noteworthy prize at the Sopot Festival in 1961 and 1962. In 1964, 1965 and 1966 she performed at National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. In the...
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  • represented Switzerland at several Song Festivals in the world with great success, as the Sopot International Song Festival (Poland), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)...
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    the time. In 1956 he and Leopold Tyrmand organized the first Jazz Festival in Sopot. Walicki also founded a number of important Polish bands: 1959 – Rythm...
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  • International Festival held in the city of Sopot in Poland. After this, she remained active in various television programs, Nightclubs and Hotels. In 1968, Helen...
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    first album, Vino Griego, and in 1977 he participated at the Sopot International Song Festival with the song "Romántica". He was internally chosen by Televisión...
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    Berlin, and London. In 1961, he initiated and organized the Sopot International Song Festival produced in Poland every summer, now for more than 50 years...
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    played by the Kol Yisrael radio. Kol Israel sent Esther to the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland where she placed second. In 1963, Esther and Abi...
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    Sabrina Salerno (category 1968 births)
    performed at another ‘80s revival concert in Poland, which was part of the Sopot Festival, together with Kim Wilde, Samantha Fox, Sandra, Thomas Anders (ex-Modern...
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  • represented Luxembourg in the VIII International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland, in August 1968, reaching third place in international competition with...
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    the premier of his song Arlekino; it won third place at the Sopot International Song Festival that year, and turned him into a star overnight. In 1970 he...
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    taivaan" and in 1993 with "Tule luo". She also took part in the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland in 1969, singing "Valssi". Katri Helena has been...
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    Samantha Jones (singer) (category Sopot International Song Festival winners)
    continental Europe continued with winning the 1st prize in the Sopot International Song Festival held in 26–29 August 1971 in Poland. In 1973, she recorded...
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    Ankara – Turkey 1968 – Third Place, International Song Festival, Sopot, Poland 1968 – The Golden Stag Nominations, International Song Festival Brasov – Romania...
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  • Green" (1967). In 1968, for the song "Geese, Geese" ("Gusi, gusi") she received a diploma at the Sopot International song festival (the Polish Baltic...
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    Klaus Kinski (category People from Sopot)
    Nakszynski was born on 18 October 1926 in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Polish-German parents. His father, Bruno Nakszynski, worked...
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    In 1966, Cantrell won the Amber Nightingale award for singing at a festival in Sopot, Poland. In 2003, Cantrell was named a member of the Order of Australia...
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    Santor made her acting debut in Stanisław Bareja's film Przygoda z piosenką (1968). She appeared in many TV and radio shows and sat on juries for a number...
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    competition of performers (1962) Sopot International Song Festival second prize (1965) Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968) Order of the Red Banner of Labour...
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    restored between 1968 and 1984. Many events are still held on the scene including the Opera Festival Opera Open, the Rock Festival Sounds of the Ages...
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    and Tadeusz Woźniak for the song Tyle słońca w całym mieście 1975 – Sopot Festival – 2nd place for her performance of the song "Staruszek świat", people's...
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    Henri Dès (category Sopot International Song Festival winners)
    Mary-Josée, which he named after his wife. In 1969, he won the Sopot International Song Festival. He represented Switzerland in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest...
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