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Lys Assia

1924 - 2018

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lys Assia is the 93rd most popular singer (up from 126th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 71st in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Singer.

Lys Assia is most famous for being the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lys Assia ranks 93 out of 4,381. Before her are Morrissey, France Gall, The Notorious B.I.G., Carlos Gardel, Fairuz, and Steven Tyler. After her are Glen Campbell, Tiny Tim, Eros Ramazzotti, Dieter Bohlen, Rihanna, and Karel Gott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Lys Assia ranks 26. Before her are Georges Charpak, Lauren Bacall, Roger Guillemin, Jacques Le Goff, Sergei Parajanov, and Paul Feyerabend. After her are S. R. Nathan, Billy Wright, Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, Mário Soares, and Kōbō Abe. Among people deceased in 2018, Lys Assia ranks 27. Before her are John McCain, Stephen Hillenburg, Jean-Louis Tauran, Philip Roth, France Gall, and Jens Christian Skou. After her are Richard E. Taylor, Burton Richter, Günter Blobel, Avicii, Paul Bocuse, and Billy Graham.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Lys Assia ranks 49 out of 1,015. Before her are Benjamin Constant (1767), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Adelaide of Italy (931), and Eugen Bleuler (1857). After her are Daniel Bovet (1907), Robert Walser (1878), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Ursula Andress (1936), and Walter Rudolf Hess (1881).

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Among SINGERS In Switzerland

Among singers born in Switzerland, Lys Assia ranks 1. After her are Lisa Della Casa (1919), Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Anita Traversi (1937), Patrick Juvet (1950), Henri Dès (1940), Paola del Medico (1950), Salvatore Licitra (1968), Michael von der Heide (1971), Yves Larock (1977), Paolo Meneguzzi (1976), and Luca Hänni (1994).

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