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Das Feyr vo dr Sehnsucht
Switzerland: Francine Jordi tops Swiss singles charts
This song is very special to Francine as it is a cover of her very first single, Das Feuer der Sehnsucht (The fire of yearning), the song which marked the beginning of her musical career back in 1998. The lyrics of the dialect version are a word-for- word translation of the German version.
However, this was not Francine’s first song in Swiss dialect. Some years ago, she already collaborated with Swiss artist Florian Ast. Together, they released the most successful Swiss single ever: Träne (Teardrop), an emotional song which touched many people. Those two songs are Francine’s biggest commercial successes and definitely stand out from her usual repertoire as her typical style is German folksy Schlager, a musical genre with very little credibility and prestige (all television shows related to that field use full playback).
Francine Jordi represented her home country Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallin, Estonia with Dans le jardin de mon âme, a song she wrote all by herself. Besides the French version, she also recorded a German (Im Garten meiner Seele) and an English (In the garden of my soul) version of her Euro- song. However, despite a convincing live performance, Francine only reached 22nd place out of 24 participants, receiving 15 points in total (the highest amount coming from Austria which awarded her with 5 points).
Träne (shortened version- only Francine's part)
Das Feyr vo dr Sehnsucht
Das Feuer der Sehnsucht
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Best Swiss entry of the last 10 years.....
I have to agree with Liam, she looks younger now than she did at Eurovision. These songs are much better than her 2002 entry!
She looked like an old woman at eurovision, now she's much more stylish and looks more comfortable with her style! Go Francine!
I have to say, I really didn't like her 2002 entry - it sounded so childish! 
But now! WOW! She looks soooo good 
very pretty indeed 
and it's so cool to hear a song in Schweizerdeutsch!!!
träne would have been one great song for eurovision.... unfortunately it was released ahead of time. maybe another duett with florian ast? and by the way, we are the country of heidi... therefore..
aww wot a cutie ^^ loves her
the way she* dress
;p
VERYYY swiss!!! aww i like the way the dress
xD
what a sweet voice!!! i liked her song in 2002...dans le jardin de mon ame lalalalaaa
This is a Heidi ' s song !!!
Träne is a very good song. It would be great for ESC 2009.
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