About Dana Rosemary Scallon
Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown; 30 August 1950), known professionally as Dana (), is an Irish singer, songwriter and politician. While still a schoolgirl she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 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. == Background == Scallon was born Rosemary Brown in Islington, London, England, one of seven children. Her father Robert Brown worked as a porter at nearby King's Cross station, in addition to being a barber and trumpeter. Originally from Derry, Northern Ireland, Robert moved his family to London to seek employment opportunities after World War II. When Rosemary was five, she moved with her family to Derry, where she grew up in the Creggan housing estate and Bogside. At age six, Scallon won her first talent contest.
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