Ann Christy

Delivered in Antwerp in 1945, Ann Christy started her career executing using the Adams Orchestra and touring across Belgium and France with Salvatore Adamo. After declining three times to advance from her homeland’s Eurovision Tune Contest selection procedure, she finally got the opportunity to represent her nation in Stockholm in 1975 with “Gelukkig Zijn,” a half-Dutch, half-English monitor that completed a unsatisfactory 15th. After an extended stint within a musical version of the Midsummer Night’s Fantasy, she scored an enormous strike in 1980 using a cover of Bette Midler’s “The Rose.” But after getting identified as having cervical tumor, she tragically passed away at age just 38 in 1984.