Loreen of Sweden is the 15th previous Eurovision song contest winner who has decided and/or managed give it another try. Only Ireland's Johnny Logan has managed to win twice, as we all know. One can't really do a ranking however as the contest had changed so much from the 1950's with maybe a dozen songs to the approx 40 we have these days. In coming days I will feature the winners who decided to come back after winning the contest as there also many winners who have won with their second or third try.
Isabelle Aubret (or Thérèse Coquerelle, 84) scored France's third win in 1962 with a classic love song Un premier amour. After Eurovision she was to do movie Les parapluies de Chérbourg, but poor Isabelle was injured in a fatal car accident and had to pass. It's the classic that scored Oscar nominations among other things and made Catherine Deneuve. Who knows if only... But in 1968 she was back after multiple operations and long rehabilitation. La source, a delicate song that actually tells a rape story placed third in the controversial year of Spanish dictatorship and Cliff Richard.
Despite finishing third she tried to come back another three times (1970, 1973, 1983) without luck and on top of that in 1981 she had another accident when she was rehearsing a flying trapeze number: She fell and broke both her legs. Another two years of rehabilitation so that she could walk again!
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