Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982

Belgium was represented by Dutch singer Stella Maessen (billed simply as Stella), with the song '"Si tu aimes ma musique", at the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Harrogate, England on 24 April. The Belgian preselection consisted of three heats, a semi-final, and the final on 21 February. All the shows took place at the RTBF studios in Brussels, hosted by Pierre Collard-Bovy.

This was Stella's third appearance at Eurovision: She had appeared twice as part of the group Hearts of Soul/Dream Express for the Netherlands in 1970 and for Belgium in 1977. As a solo singer, she had also taken part in the Belgian preselection in 1981.

Heats and semi-final

Three heats were held with six songs in each, from which the top two songs selected by televoting went forward to a semi-final. The top four songs from the semi-final went forward to the final. Details of the non-qualifying songs from the first heat are not currently available.^[1]

Heat 1

**24 January 1982**
Draw	Artist	Song	Qualification
1	Stella	"Si tu aimes ma musique"	Y
2	Joseph Cioppa	"Vivons l'amour de demain"	Y
3	???	"???"	N
4	???	"???"	N
5	???	"???"	N
6	???	"???"	N

Heat 2

**31 January 1982**
Draw	Artist	Song	Qualification
1	Claude Michel	"Si par bonheur"	Y
2	Gala	"Patati patata"	N
3	Pascal Amory	"Slow en tendresse"	Y
4	Chrome 17	"Intuition"	N
5	Nicole Mery	"Quelle surprise"	N
6	Eddy Pascal	"Même"	N

Heat 3

**7 February 1982**
Draw	Artist	Song	Qualification
1	Tiziano	"Par amour"	Y
2	Cologne Intime	"Boomerang"	N
3	Baxter	"Plus personne n'y croit"	Y
4	Jacky Lafon	"On l'appelle chanson d'amour"	N
5	Serge Mohimont	"Au fond de ma mémoire"	N
6	Isabelle Rigaux	"Partir"	N

Semi-final

**14 February 1982**
Draw	Artist	Song	Qualification
1	Claude Michel	"Si par bonheur"	N
2	Stella	"Si tu aimes ma musique"	Y
3	Pascal Amory	"Slow en tendresse"	N
4	Joseph Cioppa	"Vivons l'amour de demain"	Y
5	Tiziano	"Par amour"	Y
6	Baxter	"Plus personne n'y croit"	Y

Final

The national final was held on 21 February with the winning song chosen by a 12-member "expert" jury. After Stella was declared the winner, it was reported that some RTBF executives were unhappy about the fact that they were to be represented by a Dutch-born singer who spoke very little French.^[2]

**21 February 1982**
Draw	Artist	Song	Place
1	Stella	"Si tu aimes ma musique"	1
2	Baxter	"Plus personne n'y croit"	2
3	Tiziano	"Par amour"	3
4	Joseph Cioppa	"Vivons l'amour de demain"	4

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Stella performed 11th in the running order, following Austria and preceding Spain. At the close of the voting "Si tu aimes ma musique" had received 96 points, placing Belgium 4th of the 18 entries. Although the song did not receive any 12 points votes (the highest were 10 from Denmark and Spain), it achieved the distinction of being only the eighth song in Eurovision history to that date (and only the third non-winner) to receive points from every other participating country (excluding the 1971-1973 contests where each country had to award a minimum of 2 points to every song). The Belgian jury awarded its 12 points to Switzerland.^[3]

Points Awarded by Belgium^[4]

12 points	Switzerland
10 points	Germany
8 points	Luxembourg
7 points	Israel
6 points	Austria
5 points	Sweden
4 points	Spain
3 points	Cyprus
2 points	Norway
1 point	Yugoslavia

External links

Belgian Preselection 1982

References

Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation

1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 ~~1994~~ 1995 1996 ~~1997~~ 1998 1999 2000 ~~2001~~ 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Artists

1950s	Fud Leclerc Mony Marc Bobbejaan Schoepen Fud Leclerc Bob Benny

1960s	Fud Leclerc Bob Benny Fud Leclerc Jacques Raymond Robert Cogoi Lize Marke Tonia Louis Neefs Claude Lombard Louis Neefs

1970s	Jean Vallée Lily Castel & Jacques Raymond Serge & Christine Ghisoland Nicole & Hugo Jacques Hustin Ann Christy Pierre Rapsat Dream Express Jean Vallée Micha Marah

1980s	Telex Emly Starr Stella Pas de Deux Jacques Zegers Linda Lepomme Sandra Kim Liliane Saint-Pierre Reynaert Ingeborg

1990s	Philippe Lafontaine Clouseau Morgane Barbara Dex ~~1994~~ Frédéric Etherlinck Lisa del Bo ~~1997~~ Mélanie Cohl Vanessa Chinitor

2000s	Nathalie Sorce ~~2001~~ Sergio & The Ladies Urban Trad Xandee Nuno Resende Kate Ryan The KMG's Ishtar Patrick Ouchène

2010s	Tom Dice Witloof Bay Iris Roberto Bellarosa Axel Hirsoux Loïc Nottet Laura Tesoro

Songs

1950s	"Messieurs les noyés de la Seine" "Le plus beau jour de ma vie" "Straatdeuntje" "Ma petite chatte" "Hou toch van mij"

1960s	"Mon amour pour toi" "September, gouden roos" "Ton nom" "Waarom?" "Près de ma rivière" "Als het weer lente is" "Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel" "Ik heb zorgen" "Quand tu reviendras" "Jennifer Jennings"

1970s	"Viens l'oublier" "Goeiemorgen, morgen" "À la folie ou pas du tout" "Baby, Baby" "Fleur de liberté" "Gelukkig zijn" "Judy et Cie" "A Million in One, Two, Three" "L'amour ça fait chanter la vie" "Hey Nana"

1980s	"Euro-Vision" "Samson" "Si tu aimes ma musique" "Rendez-vous" "Avanti la vie" "Laat me nu gaan" "J'aime la vie" "Soldiers of Love" "Laissez briller le soleil" "Door de wind"

1990s	"Macédomienne" "Geef het op" "Nous, on veut des violons" "Iemand als jij" ~~1994~~ "La voix est libre" "Liefde is een kaartspel" ~~1997~~ "Dis oui" "Like The Wind"

2000s	"Envie de vivre" ~~2001~~ "Sister" "Sanomi" "1 Life" "Le grand soir" "Je t'adore" "Love Power" "O Julissi" "Copycat"

2010s	"Me and My Guitar" "With Love Baby" "Would You?" "Love Kills" "Mother" "Rhythm Inside" "What's the Pressure"

(Note: Entries scored out are when Belgium did not compete)

Eurovision Song Contest 1982

Countries

Final (by final results)	Germany (winner) Israel Switzerland Belgium Cyprus Luxembourg United Kingdom Sweden Austria Spain Ireland Norway Portugal Yugoslavia Turkey Netherlands Denmark Finland