Belgium was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song "", written by Pierre Theunis, and performed by Frédéric Etherlinck. The Belgian participating broadcaster, Walloon (RTBF), selected its entry through a national final.
Before Eurovision
Walloon broadcaster (RTBF) had the turn to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 representing Belgium. The national selection was broadcast live at 20:10 CET on RTBF 1 on 12 March 1995 from studio 6 in the RTBF studios and was hosted by Thierry Luthers. Ten songs competed, chosen from 192 submitted entries. The winner was chosen by six regional juries (Brabant, Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg, Namur, and Brussels), plus a jury consisting of music professionals. All the juries awarded points to the songs in the same way as is done in the Eurovision Song Contest: 12 points to the top song, 10 points to the second top song, then 8 down to 1 point for the rest of the top ten songs.
+ Final – 12 March 1995 Artist Song Composer Lyricist Points Place 1 "" 58 1 2 Belinda "" 52 2 3 Teddy Laventure "" Pierre Gillet Thérésa Lagerval 37 8 4 Power People "Sileila" Power People Jean-Louis Fayt 49 3 5 Dominique Malerat "" Yves Disclez 27 9 6 Bea Luna "" Tony Baron Bea Luna 46 4 7 Elani "" Richard Jacques Marie-Ange Herman 7 10 8 Largo "Lola" 45 5 9 Nathalie Lavigne "" 40 7 10 Valerie Buggea "" Philippe Warlomont 45 5 + Detailed jury votesSongRegional Juries rowspan="2" Total 1 "" 6 12 8 7 12 6 7 58 2 "" 4 10 10 12 7 5 4 52 3 "" 2 5 2 3 8 7 10 37 4 "Sileila" 12 2 3 4 4 12 12 49 5 "" 3 3 5 5 5 4 2 27 6 "" 8 7 6 6 6 8 5 46 7 "" 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 8 "Lola" 7 4 4 2 10 10 8 45 9 "" 10 8 7 8 2 2 3 40 10 "" 5 6 12 10 3 3 6 45
At Eurovision Frédéric Etherlinck performed 14th in the running order of the contest, following and preceding the . "" received 8 points, 7 from Spain and 1 from Austria, placing 20th of 23 countries competing.
The contest was broadcast on RTBF1 (with commentary by Jean-Pierre Hautier) and on TV1 (with commentary by André Vermeulen).
Voting
+ Points awarded to Belgium Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded by Belgium Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
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