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 Metronome label, Metronome Records A/S. He was married to Grethe Ingmann from 1956 until their divorce in 1975. He started out as a jazz guitarist in the 1940s with the orchestras of Svend Asmussen (e.g. Svend Asmussen And His Unmelancholy Danes). 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 Jerry Lordan's 1960 instrumental Apache (made famous by [a170356] the same year) was also an international hit. Together with his wife Grethe, performing as Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann, they won the 1963 European Song Contest. Besides releasing his own recordings, his orchestra Jørgen Ingmann's Orkester backed a number of contemporary Danish artists in the 1950s and early 1960s. He retired from music in the early 1980s,