Belgium was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with the song "", written by Kris Wauters, Koen Wauters, Bob Savenberg, and Jan Leyers, and performed by the band Clouseau. The Belgian participating broadcaster, Flemish (BRT), selected its entry through a national final, after having previously selected the performer internally.
Before Eurovision
Euro-Clouseau Clouseau were chosen internally by Flemish broadcaster (BRT) to be that year's Belgian representatives. In June 1990, the BRT had signed an agreement with Clouseau to represent Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest, but this agreement was not revealed to the public until 1 September 1990. On 9 March 1991, Euro-Clouseau was broadcast live at 20:10 CET on TV1. Euro-Clouseau was held in the Casino Cursaal in Ostend and was hosted by Jessica de Caluwe. The show featured archive footage of Clouseau's career, and Clouseau also performed several songs from their repertoire, three of which ("", "", and "") were candidate songs for the Eurovision Song Contest. The band made their own choice from the three songs and announced "Geef het op" as the song they would perform in Rome.
+ Final – 9 March 1991 SongSongwriters Place 1"Geef het op"Koen Wauters, Kris Wauters, Bob Savenberg, Jan Leyers1 2"Hilda"Koen Wauters, Kris Wauters, Bob Savenberg– 3"Ik kan zonder jou"Koen Wauters, Kris Wauters, Bob Savenberg, Karel Theys–
At Eurovision On the evening of the final Clouseau performed 18th in the running order, following and preceding . At the close of the voting "" had received 23 points from seven countries (the highest being 5 from and ), placing Belgium 16th out of 22 entries. The Belgian jury awarded its 12 points to .
The contest was broadcast on TV1, TV2 (both with commentary by André Vermeulen), RTBF1 (with commentary by Claude Delacroix) and on radio station Radio 2.
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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