She got her first recording contract with composer and producer Arne Bendiksen at age of 13, after winning a talent contest staged by Verdens Gang newspaper at the Chat Noir theatre in Oslo in 1960.

It would be another fifteen years before she attempted Eurovision again and did so via the German national heat, singing "Wir beide gegen den Wind" with her son.

Wencke performed the song "Alt har en mening nå" in the second semi-final on Saturday 31 January, but was eliminated from the competition.

Myhre hosted the German qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, "Ein Lied für Bergen".

Myhre has been married to Danish dentist Torben Friis-Møller, German movie director Michael Pfleghar and Norwegian investor Arthur Buchardt.