Emma (singer)

Emma (Emma Booth) sang the UK entry, "Give a Little Love Back to the World", in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990. This was the third of four entries representing the UK composed by Paul Curtis. The song finished 6th and climbed to #33 in the UK charts. At fifteen, she is the youngest singer to have represented the UK in the contest and only narrowly made the newly implemented age rule in the competition, where all contestants must be 16 in the year they compete. As author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in his book "The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History", the song had an environmental theme. Many of the 1990 entries chose the momentous events taking place in Eastern Europe and European Unity as their theme. It was a good idea to choose a themed entry in 1990, but Emma had the wrong theme! [O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3]

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