{"id":95982,"date":"2024-05-08T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/celine-dion-and-more-eurovision-stars-who-found-success-in-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T21:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:22:31","slug":"celine-dion-and-more-eurovision-stars-who-found-success-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/celine-dion-and-more-eurovision-stars-who-found-success-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Dion and More Eurovision Stars Who Found Success in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p>While competing in Eurovision doesn\u2019t necessarily guarantee international fame, there\u2019s certainly an impressive roster of big-name artists who got their start thanks to the storied singing contest.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/olivia-newton-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Olivia Newton-John<\/strong><\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/celine-dion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Celine Dion<\/strong><\/a>, Eurovision has hosted plenty of now-beloved stars who give credit to the competition for putting them on the map stateside. That\u2019s not to say there wasn\u2019t plenty of hustling after they took home their impressive prizes. <strong>Benny Andersson<\/strong>, a member of the famed Swedish band ABBA, recalled having to find the group\u2019s footing after landing first place for their rendition of \u201cWaterloo.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter we won the Eurovision Song Contest and had a big hit with \u2018Waterloo\u2019 all over the world, then nothing happened, like often is the way with Eurovision Song Contest contenders,\u201d he recounted to What\u2019s On in 2015. \u201cWe worked in England and they said, \u2018Well not to worry.\u2019 So from sending us big limousines in the \u2018Waterloo\u2019 period, the cars got smaller and smaller and we had a Volkswagen bus by the end!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABBA, and many of the artists below, needn\u2019t have worried about any career lags for long \u2014 there was plenty of success in the United States (and beyond!) to come. Scroll on to see which Eurovision contestants who have since made it big stateside:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/eurovision-stars-who-made-it-big-in-the-u-s-abba-celine-dion-and-more-who-found-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While competing in Eurovision doesn\u2019t necessarily guarantee international fame, there\u2019s certainly an impressive roster of big-name artists who got their start thanks to the storied singing contest. From Olivia Newton-John to Celine Dion, Eurovision has hosted plenty of now-beloved stars who give credit to the competition for putting them on the map stateside. That\u2019s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}