Eurovision Artists Who Passed Away † (Memorial Video) 

What shocked me the most was Günther Hoffman; not even a year later and he felt THAT hopeless. Tragic!!

A lot of them seem to die well before the average life expectancy in Europe, even the ones dying in their fifties and sixties are young these days. Taking the figures Western Europe it is currently 79 for. men and 84 for women. Moldova has the lowest life expectancy in Europe but even there it is 67 years for men and 76 for women. I wonder why so many seem to die much younger than that

Wow!!!!! Absolutely amazed by some of the ages that these bright Eurovision stars sadly passed. Shocked and has really made me think!!!! Beautiful memories.

​@@starspangledhikersame here, I am shocked by these young deaths, but his was the one that shocked me the most, because it was less than one year after participating, and I'd be curious to know, why. His last name ironically translates into hope man, btw. I know, why Macedonia 3005 and 2011, Armenia 2007 and Latvia 2005 died, and of course the frontman on AWS, but I don't know anything about those early deaths of earlier performers.

@@molybdomancer195 Yes thrue the italians are died in their 80 because the Italy expectation is 86. In the USA are 76 and in Somalia and Nigeria is 50 years.

Nice idea, and all the living people?

@@gaswirt According to @jezinlv6516 they'll make history when they die.......

Світла пам'ять!

Peter Horton (19 September 1941 - 22 September 2023) AUSTRIA 1967

One third of Milk and Honey, winners in 1979, died on New Year's Eve.

You always make super videos !

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Why so many of them died young.

@@htgar8201 I think you're taking things a little out of context. From 66 years of Eurovision Song Contest featuring approximately 20 contestants each year and from various countries across Europe makes a total of at least 1,320 contestants in all (If each country put up a solo act). If you were to compare that with 20 people from each country who may have passed away in the past 66 years, I am sure you would get a similar demographic. I didn't count the number of people featured here or take account of the various age groups. Maybe next time I watch it, I will make a note of those ages. I have just looked up Margary Gilles and I find she passed as a result of HIV in 1996 Her twin sister suffered from depression but whether that contributed to her passing is not made clear.

North Macedonia's second best song after Crno I Belo 🙏

Talk about prophetic lyrics...

Tose was great that year!

​@@henroriroafter proud

Dona was the best too (MKD 2016)

Hopelessly devoted

@@cailieisidro5758 Yea... I bet she's in heaven right now singing that song right now

Australia’s princess ❤

She lead an incredible life.....Eurovison being just one small achievement!

​@@garrywallace1007absolutely, I'm on your nice comment, you couldn't say it better.

You included Armando Gama ? ( Portugal 1983 )

@@danuostret1900 Yup, he's in the video. 😉

Franca Raimondi (IT-1 1956) actually passed away on April 22, 1990, as her commemorative Facebook account posted a photo of her tombstone.

Hey Lucas, I think it's incredibly thoughtful of you to make this video. Respect

Mony Marc (BE-2 1956) or her full name “Simone Marcotty” appeared on telephone books from Liege, her home town in 1995, 1997, and 2005. However, her name doesn’t appear on the 2015 books, meaning she could’ve died before then.

So she is already the 5th oldest participant ever after Margot Hielscher (Germany 1957+1958) who became 97, Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson (UK 1959) who both lived to be 98 years old and Emil Ramsauer (Switzerland 2013) who performed at 95 and died at 103 years old.

Wow! Glad to see there's still one from the very first Contest still alive!

​@@JonnyTainmentthere are 3 artists still alive from the first contest

True and that would be like the Oscars with the in loving memory of towards actors, directors, screenwriters, etc.

I do agree with you. That should be an outstanding tribute to all of them: singers, conductors, authors, composers, hosts.

@@Botafogoplayground maybe just keep it to artists. We already heard how they’re cutting the show time in Malmo

@@joseuribe9273 Well, I meant those who passed away since ESC 2023

No, they shouldn't. It's a celebration. Bringing up dead people would seriously bring the mood down.

Sadly, it was self-inflicted.

Es gab übrigens mehrere ESC Teilnehmer, die auf dieser Weise wie Günther Hoffmann verstarben. Leider. 😞

I often listen to "Rücksicht". Hoffmann & Hoffmann were the German Simon & Garfunkel.

​@@djandy2002wie starb er eigentlich?

🇫🇮 Finland 2020

@@official_rown Thnx, it was driving me mad trying to place the reference

Strongly agree

No way! The youngest one still makes my tears.

Who was the youngest one?

@@kilians9653 Toše Proeski 7:47

It also happens in 2023......Cancer....heart attacks and car accidents---

Same here. Também eu

Ors breaks your heart - Vislat Nasr was about his grief over the early death of his father and then he died tragically young too probably because like many cancer victims the pandemic meant he didn't get the care he needed.

Although representing Luxembourg during its victory in 1965, France Gall was a French artist particularly adored in France. His death affected the entire country. Curiosity, in addition to her own songs (notably those written by her husband Michel Berger), France Gall inspired 2 famous songs: "Souffrir par toi n'est pas souffrir" by Julien Clerc and especially "Comme d'Habitude" by Claude François adapted in English by Paul Anka and sung by Frank Sinatra under the title "My Way".

We are missing the ones that withdrew (Dana and Enzo Gusman)

So young 💔

Yes I thought the same thing, ifor a while it seemed like performing at ESC shortened your life span.

I actually looked up some of them. A lot of suicide, in the 80s and 90s quite a few people with AIDS...

​@@Momo-rv6enand a schizophrenic , who committed suicide

Yes, it's very sad all these young ages. It's not a positive image of The Contest is it? ie take part and die young! Nowadays, it's take part and get really low points for most artists, becos of the distribution of points.

@@nocturne7371 Well, there it was accidents, su1c1d3, illness, heart attacks...😢😢😢

Never miss him desaster I was under eurovision. Presentation 1991

Who's still left in 1956 and 1957?

@@landon306 For 1956, we still have Mathé Altéry (🇫🇷1), Freddy Quinn (🇩🇪2) and Tonina Torrielli (🇮🇹2), the youngest known participant. We don’t know if Mony Marc ( 🇧🇪2) is still with us. For 1957, Birthe Wilke (🇩🇰) is the only one still alive, as well as the presenter, Anaid Iplicjian.

BTW. G no, 09, 0l

It has been running for 67 years! It would be unbelievable if hardly anyone had died. I'm slightly surprised it's not more, if anything.

Brother hood of man are still alive

All winners in the 1970s are still with us thankfully.

He also was supposed to represent Malta in the 1976 contest with sing your song country boy but again Malta withdrew.

There's sure to be a great band, band, band!

Actually Enzo had been plugged out in 1974 and 1976

Örs Siklosi, died from leukemia in 2021

@@u4gugkjjso2hge64 Yes, but he was not Swedish

Thank you for this information.

stämmer bra

Thank you for the information

Can we include those that were withdrawn

45 y.o., not 94 y.o.

@@lukatrgovac3385 The numbers in the parentheses are the year they represented Eurovision, along with the flag. Sara represented Portugal in 1994.

​@@jejtherusheddoodle23, now I see... Sorry, my bad...

Guy Bonnet (🇫🇷 70 & 83)

Really? Diggiloo Thrush lied to me then.

@@SchlagerLucas Yep ;-) On the right is Dan Lacksman, and Michel Moers (a friend of mine) at the centre, both still alive luckily enough. 😚

​@@Christ13I wish he was a friend of mine.

Thanks for this information 👍

I knew I would miss a few artists, especially band members. Thank you for the information. 🙂

I've been keeping a Eurovision archive for many many years and It is great that other people are also involved. I had a quick scan and noted the people above. I'll have a proper look later and see if anyone else has slipped through our joint net. Stay well David @@SchlagerLucas

​@@riva1958Thanks for that information and hoping for any further corrections. I did the list for this video over months, but band informations are just too hard to find. So Jarosław is the person dying the closest to his ESC appearence, 5,5 weeks after the contest in Birmingham.

@@MrElsner83 @SchlagerLucas Hi. Yes Jaroslaw holds that rather sad title. The official version of his death is heart attack although there has always been rumours that he was murdered. A couple of other people since I scanned the lists. Brian Hodgson [Live Report] UK 1989 - died 2014 Recep Akut [The Short Wave] Turkey 1983 - 14th January 2020. The Short Wave are listed with the EBU as 'performers' not as backing singers, and indeed Marlene Charell names them as such along with Cetin Alp when she makes her introductions. However the groups name does not appear on screen, just Cetin's. Dani - France 1974 died 18th July 2022, but she only got as far as the audience in Brighton. Two members of Dubrovacki Trubanduri have died. The group represented Yugoslavia in 1968 but weren't allowed to use the group name due to the 'no groups' rule. Therefore only the two main singers were listed while the others sang along. The EBU nowadays lists the entry as being under the groups name. Marko Breskovic - Yugoslavia 1968 died 2010 Delo Jusic - Yugoslavia 1968 died 21 May 2019 I've been told on two occasions that Chris De Wolde a member of Teach-In - Netherlands 1975 has died, but I've never been able to find any confirmation. 63 members of the Alexandria Ensemble Choir who performed as the interval act in the 2009 First Semi Final were killed din 2009 when their plane crashed in to the Black Sea. I don't know how you feel about musicians who are official group members but don't appear on stage but their music does. The EBU recognises these people as official entrants, Kimberly Rew is the only official entrant to have a winners performers medal despite never appearing on stage as he is listed as a group member due to his guitar playing being on the playback. Anyway in 3 such instances people have died. Peter May [Live Report] UK 1989 died February 2018 Michel Morvan [Urban Trad] - Belgium 2003 died 3 July 2010 Sanja Illic - Serbia 2018 died march 2021 The three of these are listed with the EBU as official entrants. You can find videos for each of the years on my channel although my technical know how is very limited. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xCJFEfIzXYY.html

He is italian he rappresent Italy esc 1960 with the song Romantica He passed away 2 nd january 1991 🙋‍♀️🇮🇹

It's an error indeed. The man you're seeing is not renato rascel but wyn hoop

At least he got to see his country host.

@@EmoBearRights He didn't even want to watch it.

@@ariccua6101 That's incredibly sad but considering how they treated him understandable.

Sad that Tose’s d34th was known as the North Macedonian 9/11