Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten (; 11 May 1926 – 8 April 2010) was a Dutch singer and television presenter. She is known for winning the
Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "
Een beetje", representing the Netherlands.
Career
In 1950, Scholten was invited by
The Coca-Cola Company
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to perform at a show in the United States. She was one of the first Dutch popular music artists to perform in the United States.
In 1959, she won the
''Nationaal Songfestival'' 1959 with the song "
Een beetje", written by
Willy van Hemert and
Dick Schallies. This gave her the right to represent the Netherlands in the
Eurovision Song Contest 1959, held in
Cannes
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, France. She went on to win the competition, receiving a total of 21 points from the international juries. This marked the second win of the
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest. "Een beetje" was also recorded in French ("Un p'tit peu"), German ("Sei ehrlich"), Italian ("Un poco") and
Swedish ("Om våren").
With her husband, Henk Scholten, she recorded several albums, many of them containing songs for children. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in popular television shows in the Netherlands. In 1965 and 1966, she presented the ''
Nationaal Songfestival
(; ) was an annual music competition, which was originally organised by the Dutch public broadcaster (NTS), and later by the (NOS) and the (TROS). It was staged almost every year between 1956 and 2012 to determine the country's entry for th ...
'', the Dutch national final for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Scholten died in
The Hague
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on 8 April 2010, aged 83.
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1926 births
2010 deaths
Dutch women singers
Eurovision Song Contest winners
People from Rijswijk
Philips Records artists