Nikolaj Koppel

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Nikolaj Koppel
Born (1969-03-06) 6 March 1969
Gentofte, Denmark
Occupation Musician and journalist

Nikolaj Koppel (born 6 March, 1969 in Gentofte) is a Danish musician. He is the son of musicians Lone Koppel and John Winther, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He went onto become a talented musician in 1998, but retired from the business after just two years. He later took up work as a music journalist on Danmarks Radio, he also served as editor for the magazine Euroman. Since 2005, he returned to the music industry where he serves as musical director for Tivoli.

For television he was judge on the 2009 edition of Talent (the Danish version of Got Talent). Since 2010 he has been a presenter on DR P2, where he is heard every Sunday morning.

On 4 February 2014, Danmarks Radio announced that Koppel would co-host the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 alongside Lise Rønne and Pilou Asbæk.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (4 February 2014). "Koppel, Asbæk, Rønne to host Eurovision 2014". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 4 February 2014. 
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Sweden Petra Mede		 Eurovision Song Contest presenter
(with Lise Rønne and Johan Philip Asbæk)
2014 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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