Emelie or Emmelie de Forest? Eurovision winner considers reverting to birth name

Today, 2013 Eurovision winner Emmelie de Forest has revealed a fact most of us will have never known. Indeed, even Wikipedia doesn’t know this at the time of writing… at least until someone changes it after reading this! Yes, Emmelie’s birth name is actually Emelie. Now, the Danish star is wondering whether to revert back to her birth name in an enlightening Facebook post.

Emelie Charlotte-Victoria de Forest

Emmelie has revealed on Facebook an image of her passport, which reveals that her birth name is, in fact, Emelie Charlotte-Victoria de Forest. Due to this spelling of Emelie being uncommon in Denmark, Emmelie changed her name to its current spelling as a teenager to help fellow Danes pronounce her name correctly. Read the full story in Emmelie’s Facebook post below.

https://www.facebook.com/dkemmeliedeforest/posts/1465441320170962

EDIT: Emmelie chose to remove her original post, creating this new post instead:
https://www.facebook.com/dkemmeliedeforest/posts/1465586903489737

Emmelie’s PledgeMusic campaign is a massive success!

In addition, Emmelie has been running a PledgeMusic campaign to fund her brand new EP. A few days ago, Emmelie achieved her target and plans for her EP release later this year are full steam ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/dkemmeliedeforest/posts/1459153874133040

So what do you think? Should Emmelie revert back to Emelie? Maybe keep Emmelie as her stage name while reverting back to Emelie outside of the musical world? Let us (and Emmelie!) know via the comments below, on our social media pages @ESCXTRA and on Emmelie’s Facebook page!