Barbara Deckx better known by her stage name Barbara Dex, is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 singer who represented her country in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 with the song "Iemand als jij

Iemand Als Jij

"Iemand als jij" was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, performed in Dutch by Barbara Dex.The song is a straightforward love ballad, with Barbara singing that she has never loved anyone like this before...

". Dex had qualified via the Belgian national heat, Eurosong 93

Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993

Belgium was represented by Barbara Dex at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, which took place in Millstreet, Ireland, performing "Iemand als jij"...

, held at the Casino Knokke on March 6. At the Eurovision in Millstreet

Millstreet

Millstreet is a town in north County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 1,500. It is located at the foot of Clara Mountain. The town's Catholic church is dedicated to St. Patrick. Since October 1985, the town has been twinned with Pommerit-le-Vicomte in Brittany, France...

, she won seventh spot, after Greece's entry "Eladha, Hora Tu Fotos

Eladha, Hora Tu Fotos

"Ellada, Hora Tou Fotos" is a song by Greek pop singer Katerina Garbi. It was Greece's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, and a single from Garbi's fifth solo album Os Ton Paradeiso.-At Eurovision:The song was performed sixth on the night, following Denmark's Tommy Seebach Band with "Under...

" and before Malta's song "This Time". Dex came 25th and last.

Barbara returned to the Belgian final in 2004, teaming up with Alides for the song "One Life" which was placed third. A further Eurovision attempt came in 2006 with the country line-dancing flavoured "Crazy" which earned her the fifth place.

Barbara Dex is one of three children of Marcel Deckx, a Belgian singer better known by his stage name Marc Dex. Her brother Tom Deckx has played bass guitar in the musical groups Tush and Nuts.

Albums

• Iemand (1993), with songs sung in Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
  . Since 1994 she sings only in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
  :
• Waiting for a New Moon (1994)
• Tender Touch (1996)
• Strong (1998)
• Timeless (2001)
• Enjoy: a Taste of Gospel (2003)
• Blue-eyed Girl (2006)
• Only One Me (2008)

External links

• Barbara Dex Official Site
• Barbara Dex Award