Allan Mortensen (born 1946 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish actor, singer and musician. After training as a lithographer at Hammerschmidt, he joined the experimental rock group Tears and, after moving to Copenhagen in the early 1970s, Midnight Sun, earning a breakthrough as Judas in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and later starring in Hair. Throughout the 1970s he released several LPs spanning rock, pop, gospel and soul, including the 1978 country success Cowboy uden hest. In 1979–1981 he competed in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix with “Mill Song”, “Swing Time Again”and “King Kong Boogie”, appearing in 1980 and 1981 as a member of the vocal quartet Hans Mosters Vovse, which finished fourth and second, while also appearing on television. He has continued to perform as a lead singer with orchestras and on television programmes such as Hit med sangen.
