Jan Werner Danielsen was a Norwegian pop singer born in Nord-Odal on April 10, 1976. Danielsen first performed on stage at four years of age and earned a recording contract after winning a talent competition in 1988, issuing the debut single "Jeg ser en dag". Danielsen achieved widespread prominence in 1994 upon winning the NRK competition Talentiaden and representing Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest alongside Elisabeth Andreassen, securing a sixth-place finish with the song "Duett". His recorded solo output includes the gold-certified debut album All By Myself (1995), followed by Inner Secrets (1997), Music of the Night (1998), and Singer of Songs (2003), which achieved sales exceeding 120,000 copies. Danielsen placed second in the 2000 Melodi Grand Prix national selection with "One More Time". Danielsen died of heart failure in Oslo on September 28, 2006, after which the posthumous recordings Stronger (2006) and One More Time – The Very Best of Jan Werner (2010) appeared.
