Teddy Scholten Musical artist
Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten (née van Zwieteren; 11 May 1926 – 8 April 2010) was a Dutch singer from Rijswijk, close to The Hague, Netherlands.In 1950, Teddy was invited by the Coca-Cola company to perform at a show in the United States. She was one of the first popular music artist to perform in the United States.In 1959, Teddy Scholten won the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 for the Netherlands singing "'n Beetje" (A little bit), with music composed by Dick Schallies and lyrics by Willy van Hemert. Also she commentated for the Netherlands in the Contest for the 1966 Eurovision.With her husband, Henk Scholten, she recorded several albums, many of them containing songs for children. In the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in popular television shows in The Netherlands. In 1965 and 1966, she presented the National Song Festival. In the history of Dutch copyright law she is commemorated for her lawsuit in 1959–1960 against a cigarette manufacturer over the use of her portrait in a newspaper advertisement.She died on 8 April 2010.
