Never forget your roots. So they say anyway. And that’s why I’ve picked this birthday. It’s that grande dame of Eurovision. No, not Sophie Carle or Chiara. That would be silly. Today is the birthday of the one and only Ms Rosa Mina Schärer, who you’ll know better as Lys Assia. A winner, who in total sang four Eurovision songs. What a girl. Here she is in 1958 in the last time she sang in a contest. She has tried since, although the short-sighted Swiss have seen fit not to send her again.
Lys is 93 today.
Buon compleanno/Frohe Geburtstag/Bonne anniversaire, Lys!