Career
Brüel"s professional career began in 1950 when she joined the Max Brüel Quartet as a jazz singer, and began training at the Danish Royal drama school. During the 1950s she became well known as a theatre and screen actress, and between 1961 and 1966 she sang with the Danish Radio Jazz Group. She represented Denmark at the tenth Eurovision Song Contest, held on 20 March in Naples, where "Foreign dyn skyld" finished in seventh place of the 18 entries.
Oddly, the song was voted for by only two other countries, Sweden and Luxembourg, but both had awarded the maximum five points, giving it a relatively high placing.
Brüel combined singing and acting and made numerous television and film appearances up to the early 1990s. From the 1970s she became involved with Amazonegruppen, a feminist theatrical and musical group.
Her last musical recording was Den hemmelige rude, a 1985 album consisting of poems by Tove Ditlevsen set to music Brüel died of undisclosed causes on 23 February 1996, aged 68.