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esctoday.com Awards 2009
Patricia Kaas wins Best female performance award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best female performance goes to...
- ... Patricia Kaas of France
Patricia Kaas represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest this year and placed eighth in the final with the song Et s'il fallait le faire.
The winner
This is the very first esctoday.com award for France and therefore also the first French victory in this category. This has award has previously went to Tina Karol (Ukraine) in 2006, Magdi Rúzsa (Hungary) in 2007 and Ani Lorak (Ukraine) in 2008.
Patricia Kaas is one of the most successful French singers ever. She was discoverd by actor Gérard Depardieu at the age of 19 and released a first single in 1985, but her first major success came in 1988 with the release of the album Mademoiselle chante…. She has sold more than 15 million records since.
All of her seven studio albums had managed to reach the top ten of the French album charts when she decided to take a major break from the music business in 2005. In 2009, she returned with the release of her eighth studio album Kabaret and the announcement that she will represent France in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.
Patricia Kaas is not only famous in France but has also enjoyed commercial success in Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and even New Zealand. Her style is often described as "chanson" but in fact, it mixes classic French elements with American pop and rock music.
The complete results
Patricia Kaas narrowly won this category ahead of Yohanna from Iceland. Remarkably, it was not only the first time that this award went to the performance of a ballad, but also the three ballad performances nominated in this category also finished in the top three.
- Patricia Kaas (France) - 31.1%
- Yohanna (Iceland) - 29.8.%
- Jade Ewen (United Kingdom) - 13.9%
- Hadise (Turkey) - 13.1%
- Nelly Ciobanu - 12.0%
The winning performance
esctoday.com interview with Patricia Kaas in May 2009, prior to the Eurovision Song Contest
The next category to be revealed will be Best male performance.
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Bravo Madam Kaas !
You made me cry with this song, so powerful, so great !!!!
Congrats to Patricia, but I think Jade's performance was the best one 
Congrats Patricia, je t'aime! 
Congratulations to a truely great Artist!
It's amazing how some people use this website to spread their frustration, spend time on writing how much they hate some performers and calling them names.
i love the top 3. Patricia had the best perfomance for sure. she brought class to the contest! I love her!
ΟΚ she was my second best here after Iceland but this does not make Yohanna better, since Patricia is my overall best performance of this year. The latter has been the reason I voted for Yohanna in this poll, namely I wanted to give some chance to her because she was also very good!!!!
i'm happy yohanna didn't get it. wohoo! 
well first award given of the year, first year i vote though i've been a member for a very long time here, and first award i voted for the winner.. best performance of the decade for me as well, and second best esc song of the decade.. I thought Iceland would win this but I guess the dolphin and the dress killed her chances.. Probably the only award Patricia will win with Estonia and Iceland and Norway running against her in all the other categories, but still, a nice way for fans to remind everyone that we love CLASS more than TRASH
Indeed, she deserved that..
Tres bien, Patricia !!! 
well deserved , she absolutley stole the show. she deserved top 3 , no doubt
Thank god Herpise didn't win
i was getting worried 
Patricia Kaas was AMAZING ... TOP CLASS ! a unforgetable performance ! one of the best in this decade!
congratulations France
Well deserved!
She is a wonderful performer!
I see that you put links of her songs...
here ... not her chanson but a wonderful performance from her
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=hcgpuPtA38w
No way!
Sorry but she is vastly over rated. her voice is weak and the performance was D U double LL. DULL.
Well done! She deserved this award, since she was clearly the best! She also deserved a top 5 position, but at least she was in the top 10.
Congratz, she's great!
Great to see that Patricia came first. Yohanna and Jade deserve to be in the top 3 for too for really great performances.
Congratulations Patricia !!!
Very nice! My favourite was Moldova but Patricia gave a great performance! congrats!
How the heck is Moldova last? over Turkey?
Patricia was great!
She was simply the best in Moscow.
In a competition with only expert (real experts, not the trashy ones used there) juries and no televote, she would win by a landslide, because her performance was brilliant.
But this is ESC, now more a cheap Saturday night show than a real song contest. Only the Russian jury gave 12 points to her and the televote sucked big time again (the best score was an 8 gave by Armenian televote).
To me, Kaas' classics are :
Il me dit que je suis belle
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
and
Je voudrais la connaître
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
@ Danniela
I agree on the best song, but on the other hand I would recommend almost every song by Patricia ...
Hurah !! One of the greatest artists to ever perform on ESC, and certainly one of the greatest performances in ESC, and certainly the best of the decade !! She's just pure brilliance !! Stunning in every way possible !!
Well deserved! She was fantastic!
she deserved it!
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