Victor Balaguer was a Spanish

Spain

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 singer of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for his participation in the 1962 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...

. Balaguer was known as a versatile singer who moved between popular music and zarzuela

Zarzuela

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, singing in both Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Catalan

Catalan language

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.

Balaguer was born and died in Barcelona

Barcelona

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. In 1961, he took part in the selection for Spain's debut Eurovision Song Contest entry, but lost out by one point to Conchita Bautista

Conchita Bautista

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. The following year he placed two songs in the final, and "Llámame

Llámame

"Llámame" was the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962, performed in Spanish by Victor Balaguer.The song was performed third on the night, following Belgium's Fud Leclerc with "Ton nom" and preceding Austria's Eleonore Schwarz with "Nur in der Wiener Luft"...

" ("Call Me") was chosen as the Spanish representative in the seventh Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1962

The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the seventh in the series. France's win was their third and marked the first time a country had won three contests. Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, and Spain all scored "null points" for the first time....

, held in Luxembourg City on 18 March. "Llámame" was one of four songs (along with the entries from Belgium

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, Austria

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 and the Netherlands

Netherlands

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) to finish in joint last place after failing to score any points from the juries.

Following his Eurovision appearance, Balaguer returned to performing mainly in his native Catalan. He died of colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer

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in Barcelona on 17 April 1984, aged 63.