Teddy Scholten, who won the Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands in 1959, has died at the age of 83. Her winning song was titled Een Beetje (A Little Bit).

Scholten, together with her husband Henk, recorded several albums during her career, many of them containing songs for children. In the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in Dutch theatre shows and television programmes, including the Snip en Snap Revue, Zaterdagavondakkorden and Kiekeboe. In 1965 and 1966, she presented the Netherlands' national song contest, which provided the country's Eurovision Song Contest entry.

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