Rollo & King is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 group, formed by Søren Poppe and Stefan Nielsen

Stefan Nielsen

Stefan Nielsen is a Danish handballer, currently playing for Danish Handball League side Viborg HK. He joined the club in 2007.During his youth career, Nielsen made several appearances for the Danish national youth handball teams....

. The two men named themselves after two dog names. They topped the charts with their very first album "Midt i en løbetid" which stayed in the charts for 13 weeks in 2000-2001.

Before Søren Poppe got famous with the band, he was a teacher in a school in Valby, in Copenhagen. He mainly taught music and math.

Danmarks Radio

Danmarks Radio

DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

 invited them to enter the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix in 2001. They won with their song Der står et billede af dig på mit bord (literal translation, "There's a picture of you on my desk").

Together with female singer, Signe Svendsen, who had joined the group, they performed the song (translated into English as Never ever let you go) at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Eurovision Song Contest 2001

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 12 May 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the first time in 36 years that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers' win the previous year in Stockholm...

and ranked number 2.