Eurovision 1984 Belgium

Jacques Zegers performing "Avanti la vie" ("Move forward in life"), the Belgian entry at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.
Surely one of the biggest stand-outs of that year; a deep, philosophical song with spot-on guitar strums and the best visual presentation of that year (though personally I think Jacques overdoes the singing in places).
Like Italy, Belgium started out very strongly but only just reached the 5th place.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• eurovision
• esc
• 1984
• belgium
• belgique
• jacques
• zegers
• avanti
• la
• vie

[kragom]

I always remember this. Forceful!

[WilliamLongfellow]

I love the way it builds up to the climaxes. His voice goes up two octaves (!!) and that synth drum hit right as he hits the top note is perfect.

[messerpolo]

One of the best eurovision songs ever :-)

[IncurableNostalgic]

Second best song in the top 5 - after Italy

[Aideen73]

One of few songs I remember from this year. I probably thought it was really boring back then (I was 11), but seeing as I've remembered it over the years, it's grown on me :)

[orjanlilja]

Fattar inte ett ord. Men goo Great song

[WilliamLongfellow]

@TheMartielover E2 to F#4.

[euromaitre]

One of the real great ones in my opinion



[muthubella]

love it!

[vegaspolly]

Love it x

[onlytwoleftt]

Pure classe !

Classy performance!