Melodi Grand Prix contestants

Hilde Heltberg (30 September 1959 – 4 September 2011) was a Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oslo, Norway.

Trond Granlund (born in Oslo, Norway, on 29 July 1950) is a Norwegian rock and folk singer, composer and guitarist.
Granlund grew up on Torshov and Manglerud in Oslo, and has lived in Lørenskog since 1968. He started performing in 1973, releasing the independent Rock album. He released his first solo album, Trond Granlund, in 1976 and has been prolific in releasing of albums. Until the mid-1990s, most of his output was in English, but with the album Tida er'e ingen som kan snu in 1995, he started to release albums almost exclusively in Norwegian.An autobiographical album, På vei til rock 'n roll (meaning "on the road to rock'n'roll"), was released in 2001. An autobiographical book was published in 2012 titled and his next book coming time, the Council in 2007. In 2012, he published his book Sanger jeg lærte av mamma og pappa (meaning "songs I learned from my mom and dad"). He is married and have one daughter and three sons.

Solfrid "Winnie" Heier (born September 20, 1945) is a Norwegian actress and singer. She has appeared in film and television roles.
Heier has appeared in the films Skjær i sjøen, Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland, Olsenbanden – Operasjon Egon, Krigerens hjerte, and Ute av drift! She made her stage debut at age 17 in Peder Wright Cappelen's play Dikter i ulvepels at the Oslo new Theater, and since then she has also played at the National Traveling Theater, Trøndelag Theater, Chateau Neuf, and Stockholm City Theatre, and she has also had guest roles in TV series such as Karl & Co, Hotel Cæsar, and Mot i brøstet.
She made her recording debut in the mid-1960s under the artist's name Winnie. In 1967 she won third place in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix together with Toril Støa with the song "Skitur." Heier was also a recording artist in Sweden.
In 2007, she was the only actress in the play The Alchemist (Norwegian title: Alkymisten), based on the novel by Paulo Coelho, among other plays at the Christiania Theater.

Trine Rein is an American-Norwegian singer. Her album sales have exceeded more than a million records. She was born in San Francisco in 1970, and is married to Norwegian adventurer Lars Monsen.

Karin Krog (born 15 May 1937) is a Norwegian jazz singer.