C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique

"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique"
"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique"
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Eurovision Song Contest 1981 entry
Country	Luxembourg
Artist(s)	Jean-Claude Pascal
Language	French
Composer(s)	Sophie Makhno,; Jean-Claude Pascal,; Jean-Claude Petit
Lyricist(s)	Sophie Makhno,; Jean-Claude Pascal,; Jean-Claude Petit
Conductor	Joël Rocher
Finals performance
Final result	11th
Final points	41
Entry chronology
	◄ "Papa Pingouin" (1980)
	"Cours après le temps" (1982) ►

"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique"

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"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique" (English translation: "It May Not Be America") was the Luxembourgish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in French by French singer Jean-Claude Pascal. Pascal, along with Luxembourg/France's Anne Marie David, Israel's Izhar Cohen, Ireland's Johnny Logan, Sweden's Charlotte Perrelli and Carola, Israels Dana International and Norway's Alexander Rybak, is one of the very few Eurovision winners to return to the Contest since its inception six decades ago; he had won in 1961 for Luxembourg singing "Nous les amoureux".

"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique" is in praise of Europe and its lifestyle, with Pascal singing that "America isn't everything" and explaining that he prefers the winds of southern France and the music he hears there. Pascal also recorded the song in German, entitled "Heut' ist vieles sehr amerikanisch" ("Today most things are very American").

The song was performed fourth on the night (following Germany's Lena Valaitis with "Johnny Blue" and preceding Israel's Hakol Over Habibi with "Halayla"). At the close of voting, it had received 41 points, placing 11th in a field of 20.

It was succeeded as Luxembourgish representative at the 1982 Contest by Svetlana with "Cours après le temps". Jean-Claude Pascal died in 1992.

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