She won the 1959Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit), with music composed by Dick Schallies and lyrics by Willy van Hemert. 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union. ...
The Eurovision Song Contest 1959 was the fourth Eurovision and was held on March 11, 1959 in Cannes, France.
With Jacqueline Joubert as the presenter, the contest was won by TeddyScholten who represented the Netherlands, with her song "Een beetje".
In the press it was suggested that Italy and France gave more points to the Netherlands because neither of those two countries wanted the other to win.
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