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Jetty Paerl, who was the very first Dutch entrant in 1956, died last week in Amstelveen at the age of 92.

Many Eurovision fans are familiar with Lys Assia who won the first edition of Europe’s Favourite TV Show, but Mrs. Paerl was the very first performer to sing on the Eurovision stage. She represented The Netherlands with De vogels van Holland.

She was born in Amsterdam on 27 May 1921 and moved to London during World War II when The Netherlands was occupied by Nazi Germany. She married Dutch artist Cees Bantzinger.

Jetty died on 22 August at the age of 92 in Amstelveen, The Netherlands.

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Venezuelan journalist and long time fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. Joined to the esctoday team in December 2012, I attended to Europe's Favourite TV Show in Düsseldorf, I repeated "Euphoric" experience in Malmö and Joined the Danes in Copenhagen. Looking forward to Austria 2015!

She represented the Netherlands in 1956 with the song De Vogels Van Holland and she was the first artist to perform at the first Eurovision Song Contest which was hosted in the Swiss resort of Lugano. She died yesterday in Amstelveen at the age of 92.

Jetty Paerl, whose real name was Henriette Nanette Paerl, was born in Amsterdam on the 27th of May of 1921. She was the daughter of the filmmaker Jo Paerl and she belonged to a Dutch Jewish family. When in 1940 the Netherlands was occupied by the Nazi troops, the Paerl family had to flee to London where Jetty, who was only 19, started working at Radio Oranje, a station which was broadcast clandestinely to the Netherlands from the British capital. She participated at the radio cabaret called De Watergeus where she used to sing songs whose lyrics were usually written by her father. When the battle rages, De Watergeus was suspended by the Dutch government in exile and Jetty started working as a member of the Women’s Auxiliary where she drove an armored truck.

When the war was over, she started singing accompa