Assia first black

by Mymy · 13.04.2022

assia first black

Lys Assia – the first person to win the Eurovision song contest – has died at the age of 94.

Two singers from the Netherlands – who were due to host the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam – were the first Asian and Black performers in Eurovision.

Two years later, Milly Scott was the first black singer to perform in Eurovision.

The first ever winner of the Eurovision song contest, Lys Assia, has died aged 94.

EUROVISION'S first winner Lys Assia has died aged 94.

Since Assia was the contest's first winner, she is often referred to as Eurovision's First Lady.

The first Eurovision Song Contest artists took the stage in 1956, leaving only a handful of years for 1950s fashion to make its mark on the stage. The first winner of the Contest, Lys Assia, secured her win in a dark, formal dress, fitting for the time. Soon after though, Eurovision fashion took flight!

On Friday, 13 February, Assia Djebar, who had spent the last few decades of her life in exile, who had held the chair for Francophone literature in Louisiana and New York, and, as President Bouteflika proclaimed, “epitomised the image of Algeria with grace and eloquence around the world,” was buried in her homeland in Cherchell. She was laid to rest in the same cemetery as her father, the school teacher who 72 years previously had accompanied his in her first tentative steps towards freedom. Beforehand, mourners paid their final respects in the community library, where her body lay in state.