Ellen Helen Nikolaysen (born December 10, 1951, Oslo) is a Norwegian singer/actress.[1] She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 as part of the Bendik Singers group with the song It's Just A Game and again as backing vocalist for fellow Bendik Singer Anne-Karine Strøm in 1974 before competing in her third consecutive Eurovision this time as a solo artist in 1975 with Touch My Life With Summer. She won the Best Performance Award at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1974. In the early 1990s she began a new career as actor in musicals on Norwegian theatre stages.
| Preceded by Grethe Kausland & Benny Borg with "Småting" |
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 (as a member of Bendik Singers) |
Succeeded by Anne-Karine Strøm with "The First Day of Love" |
| Preceded by Anne-Karine Strøm with "The First Day of Love" |
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 |
Succeeded by Anne-Karine Strøm with "Mata Hari" |