Kjell Jennstig
Kjell Jennstig is a Swedish musician and composer/songwriter.
As a musician he is mostly known as guitarist in Swedish motorcycle group, Kenneth & the Knutters.
As a composer/songwriter Kjell Jennstig has been writing for a number of Swedish performers, like Carina Jaarnek, Caracola, Grönwalls, Blender and Caroline Wennergren.
Kjell Jennstig has participated three times in Latvian Latvian Eurovision Song Contest preselection competition: :
- 2007 his song Questa Notte, written together with Torbjörn Wassenius and Fransesca Russo and performed by Bonaparti.lv, won the competition. The song was then in the Eurovision Song Contest final in Helsinki where it ended 16th.
- 2008 his song "You really got me going" ended up 2nd. The song was written together with Leif Goldkuhl and performed by "Aisha".
- Kjell had 2 songs in the Spanish Eurovision Song Contest preselection for 2011: "Evangeline" and "Golden Cadillac".
Kjell also hade one song in the Swedish ESC preselection "Melodifestivalen" for 2013. It won its semifinal and went to the final where it ended up on place 10.
The following table shows Kjells Eurovision entries so far:
Year | Country | Song | Performer | Result |
2007 | Latvia | Questa Notte | Bonaparti.lv | Winner of Latvian competition. 16th in European ESC final in Helsinki. |
2008 | Latvia | You Really got me going | Aisha | 2nd the Latvian final |
2008 | Latvia | Fly to the moon | Janis Mojsejs | Out in semifinal. |
2009 | Latvia | Hey Hey Hey Hey | Aisha & G-Point | 4th the Latvian final. |
2010 | Lithuania | Let it rain | Jurate Miliauskaite | 10th in the Lithuanian final. |
2011 | Spain | Evangeline | Auryn | 4th in the Destino Eurovision final. |
2013 | Sweden | En riktig jävla schlager | Ravaillacz | 10th in the Melodifestivalen final. |