{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Bianca Shomburg | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1974|9|17}} | death_date = | origin = [[Hiddenhausen]], West Germany | instrument = | genre = Pop, [[Country rock]] | occupation = Singer | years_active = | label = | website = [http://www.bianca-shomburg.de/ Bianca Shomburg] | current_members = }}
'''Bianca Shomburg''' (born 17 September 1974, [[Hiddenhausen]], North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer, best known for her participation in the 1997 [[Eurovision Song Contest]].
==Biography== In 1996, Shomburg took part in the international TV talent contest ''[[European Soundmix Show 1996|European Soundmix Show]]'', which she won, as a result obtaining a recording contract with producer [[Harold Faltermeyer]] and releasing her first single, "I Believe in Love".
In 1997, she entered the German Eurovision selection with the [[Ralph Siegel]]-composed "[[Zeit (Bianca Shomburg song)|Zeit]]" ("Time"), which had originally been written for [[Esther Ofarim]]. "Zeit" emerged the clear winner, and went forward to the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1997|42nd Eurovision Song Contest]], held in [[Dublin]] on 3 May.<ref>[http://natfinals.50webs.com/90s_00s/Germany1997.html ESC National Finals database 1997]</ref> However, the song's performance in the contest was quite disappointing: it managed only an 18th-place finish of 25 entries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.esc-history.com/entries.asp?search=0758 |title=ESC History 1997 |access-date=23 November 2009 |archive-date=3 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903151218/https://www.esc-history.com/entries.asp?search=0758 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Shomburg followed her Eurovision appearance with an English-language album, ''It's My Time'', which failed to sell and remains her only album to date. Unable to make a commercial breakthrough, she subsequently largely disappeared from public view, although for a time she was a singing coach on TV reality show ''[[Deutschland sucht den Superstar]]''. Since 2008, Shomburg has been working with [[country rock]] band Nashfield.
== Discography == ;'''Singles''' *1996: "I Believe in Love" *1997: "Zeit" *1997: "Only Your Love" *1998: "Ich lieb' dich mehr" *1999: "Ich glaub noch immer an Wunder"
;'''Album''' *1997: ''It's My Time''
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.bianca-shomburg.de/}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719065124/http://www.nashfield.de/home.html Nashfield website]
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