("Take Me to Your Heaven"), winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 9 March - Barbara Helsingius, 79, Finnish singer, poet and Olympic fencer 22 March - Sven-Erik Magnusson, 74, Swedish musician (Sven-Ingvars) 9 April – Knut Borge, 67, Norwegian music journalist and entertainer 12 April - Mika Vainio, 53, Finnish electronic and experimental musician (Pan Sonic) 1 May - Erkki Kurenniemi, 75, Finnish musician 4 May - Katy Bødtger, 84, Danish singer 7 June - Jan Høiland, 78, Norwegian singer 7 July - Egil Monn-Iversen, 89, Norwegian composer and pianist 13 July - Egil Kapstad, 76, Norwegian jazz pianist, arranger and composer 25 September - Folke Rabe, 81, Swedish composer 7 October - Jan Arvid Johansen, 70, Norwegian musician 17 October - Ingvar Lidholm, 96, Swedish composer 20 October - Boris Lindqvist, 76, Swedish rock singer (death announced on this date) 22 October Atle Hammer, 85, Norwegian jazz musician Emu Lehtinen, 70, Finnish record dealer (leukemia) 7 November - Pentti Glan, 71, Finnish-Canadian drummer (Alice Cooper, Lou Reed) 21 December - Halvard Kausland, 72, Norwegian jazz guitarist References Scandinavian Scandinavian culture