Morten Thomassen writes today over the 1986 Eurovision that took place in Bergen, Norway. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

Then we are going to the first time the international final was held on Norwegian soil.

Safely placed in the center of Bergen, Swiss Daniela Simmons sang her way to a great second place with what can safely be called a Euro ballad of the absolute best kind.

Admittedly, she was reasonably far from a full victory, 36 points in fact, which we remember was hijacked by the evening’s youngest contestant Sandra Kim, who will forever hold the title of the youngest winner ever.

This ESC night was a real French night for everyone except France, in third place 23 points behind Luxembourg, so three French-language songs on the podium.

Someone who got blood in his teeth after this second place was obviously the composer of the song Atilla Sereftug, he came back just two years later with the song “Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi” in his luggage and with Celine Dion as singer, we all remember that it went really well .

Daniela, whose surname is actually Borruso-Sereftug, still has an active career, but has moved more into jazz in recent years, it seems.

Do you think Daniela’s last name sounded familiar, yes she married Atilla in 1991 and they had a son Jason in 1992.

She had already tried her hand in the Swiss finals in both 1983 and 1985 before winning in 1986, in addition she was second in the same national final in 1991.

So it is very possible that her attraction to participating in Eurovision is over now, although a little cool jazz would have been something for our dear competition, I think.