About Lys Assia
Rosa Mina Schärer (3 March 1924 – 24 March 2018), known by her stage name Lys Assia, was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed to singing in 1940 where she met her first musical success in 1950 with "O mein Papa". == Eurovision Song Contest == In 1956, she was the winner of the first Eurovision Song Contest, in which she sang for Switzerland with 2 songs. "Refrain", the winning song, and "Das alte Karussell", another song. She returned to the contest again for Switzerland in 1957 with "L'Enfant que j'étais" and 1958 with "Giorgio" sung in German and Italian. In 2005, Assia performed at the Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest event. In 2009, together with the previous year's winner Dima Bilan, Assia presented the Eurovision trophy to that year's winner Alexander Rybak. In September 2011, Assia entered her song "C'était ma vie", written by Ralph Siegel and Jean Paul Cara, into the Swiss national selection Die grosse Entscheidungs Show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The song came eighth in a closely fought national selection. She attended the event in Baku as a guest of honour.
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