In 1954 , Britt Damberg first entered the world of music finishing second in an amateur singing competition behind Siw Malmkvist . In 1957 , she performed at Gröna Lund with Seymour Österwall . She was also a regular singer at Skansen with Leif Kronlund 's orchestra and traveled to Gaza and Congo as an artist performing for the UN troops . In 1962 she had a supporting role in the Swedish film classic '' Raggargänget '' starring along , amongst others , Ernst-Hugo Järegård , Sigge Fürst , Jan-Olof Strandberg and Laila Westersund . In 1959 , she had her breakthrough performing the song " Nya fågelsången " ( written by Sam Samson and Fritz-Gustaf Sundelöf ) at '' Säg det med musik : Stora Schlagertävlingen '' , which served as Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 . Eventually , her entry finished in third place . The following year , 1960 , she reached third place again , this time being one of two artists who performed the song " Nancy Nancy " . Her biggest success was the song " Hälsa Mikael från mig " , which reached number 9 on the Show Business magazine charts in April 1963 and also served as the title track of her first ( and also last ) LP released in 1966
Eurovision Song Contest 1959
Eurovision Song Contest 1959
Britt Damberg