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Jørgen Ingmann

Jørgen Ingmann (born 26 April, 1925 in Copenhagen, Denmark - died 21 March, 2015 in Holte, Denmark) was a Danish guitarist, and for a number of years Head of Recordings with the Danish branch of the [l5870] label, [l70690]. He was married to [a692553] from 1956 until their divorce in 1975. He started out as a jazz guitarist in the 1940s with the orchestras of [a95459] (e.g. [a1628821]). In the early 1950s, Ingmann developed his own recording equipment, making multi-track recording of his guitar-sound possible, and released many guitar instrumentals. His 1961 version of [a374063]'s 1960 instrumental [i]Apache[/i] (made famous by [a170356] the same year) was also an international hit. Together with his wife Grethe, performing as [a689299], they won the 1963 European Song Contest. Besides releasing his own recordings, his orchestra [a1931223] backed a number of contemporary Danish artists in the 1950s and early 1960s. He retired from music in the early 1980s,