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Dana

Dana

Born: 1951-08-30 • London, England, UK

Dana Rosemary Scallon known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer and songwriter.

While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.

She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999. Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count.

Scallon served as a politician as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

Filmography
The Best of Eurovision in the 70s poster
The Best of Eurovision in the 70s
2025 • Self
Dana: The Original Derry Girl poster
Dana: The Original Derry Girl
2020 • Self
When Eurovision Goes Horribly Wrong poster
When Eurovision Goes Horribly Wrong
2018 • Self
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? poster
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
1973
Flight of the Doves poster
Flight of the Doves
1971 • Sheila