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Beyond51 is an Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

-based Norwegian
Norway
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 music production house and record label. Beyond51 was established on 26 June 2008 by producers Kjetil Helgesen, Victor Eugen Forberg-Skogeng, Marcus Ulstad Nilsen and Andreas Sjo Engen.

Beyond51 Productions is most famous for writing the music and producing the winning Norwegian entry to the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
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, Germany
Germany
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  performed by Kenyan-Norwegian artist Stella Mwangi
Stella Mwangi
Stella Nyambura Mwangi is a Norwegian-Kenyan singer, songwriter and rapper. Mwangi writes a lot of her music about the situation in her home country Kenya, also about discrimination both Stella and her family had to go through after moving to Norway in 1991...

 and titled "Haba Haba
Haba Haba
"Haba Haba" is a song performed by Norwegian-Kenyan singer-songwriter Stella Mwangi, from her second studio album Kinanda . It was Norway's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011...

" in collaboration with Big City. The bilingual English/Swahili
Swahili language
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 song won the Norwegian nomination process during the Melodi Grand Prix
Melodi Grand Prix
Melodi Grand Prix is an annual music competition organised by Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1960.The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and...

 festival in 2011.

Artists

Artists with the production company and record label include:
  • A-Lee
  • Bankmenn
  • Bjørn Henrik Brandtenborg
  • Di 3
  • Dreamon
  • KeSera
  • Lopez
  • Marcus Only
  • Phil.T.Rich
  • Pumba
  • Sama D
  • Stella Mwangi
    Stella Mwangi
    Stella Nyambura Mwangi is a Norwegian-Kenyan singer, songwriter and rapper. Mwangi writes a lot of her music about the situation in her home country Kenya, also about discrimination both Stella and her family had to go through after moving to Norway in 1991...

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