Dany Dauberson was a French singer and actress who represented her home country at the very first Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano, Switzerland. She was the second artist to represent her country after Mathé Altéry, who had performed earlier that night.
In April 1967, while driving towards Duranville, Eure, on the N13, she skidded off the road and crashed into a tree. Dauberson was thrown out of her seat and through the windscreen while in the passenger's seat her companion, actress Nicole Berger, suffered both a fractured skull and a crushed rib cage. Dauberson and Berger were rushed to hospital, where Berger died from her injuries. Dauberson never fully recovered emotionally or physically from the crash, which ended her career as a singer. She died in 1979, at the age of 54.
| Eurovision Song Contest 1956 | |||
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 Jetty Paerl •  Lys Assia •  Fud Leclerc •  Walter Andreas Schwarz •  Mathé Altéry •  Michèle Arnaud •  Franca Raimondi • Corry Brokken • Lys Assia • Mony Marc • Freddy Quinn • Dany Dauberson • Michèle Arnaud • Tonina Torrielli
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| De vogels van Holland • Das alte Karussell • Messieurs les noyés de la Seine • Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück • Le temps perdu • Ne crois pas • Aprite le finestre • Voorgoed voorbij • Refrain • Le plus beau jour de ma vie • So geht das jede Nacht • Il est là • Les amants de minuit • Amami se vuoi
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