Joy Fleming

{{short description|German singer (1944–2017)}} {{Infobox musical artist  | name = Joy Fleming | background = solo_singer | image = Joy fleming 20050901.jpg | caption = Fleming in 2005 | birth_name = Erna Raad | alias = Erna Libenow | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1944|11|15}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2017|9|27|1944|11|15}} | birth_place = [[Rockenhausen]], Germany<ref name=":0" /> | death_place = [[Sinsheim]], Germany<ref name=":1" /> | genre = {{hlist|[[Schlager]]|[[soul music|soul]]}} | occupation = Singer-songwriter | years_active = | label = | website = }}

'''Joy Fleming''' (born '''Erna Raad''', 15 November 1944 – 27 September 2017)<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.focus.de/kultur/musik/im-alter-von-72-jahren-saengerin-joy-fleming-ist-tot_id_7651410.html|title=Sängerin Joy Fleming ist tot|website=Focus.de|access-date=30 September 2017}}</ref> was a German singer. She is best known for her performance in the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] in 1975. She performed the song "[[Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein]]"<ref>{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p76503|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Joy Fleming|last=Monger|first=James Christopher|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|access-date=21 May 2010}}</ref> and was placed seventeenth out of nineteen countries. Despite its relatively low placing, the song has become popular amongst many Eurovision fans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eurovision.tv/story/joy-fleming-dies-aged-72|title=Eurovision fan favourite Joy Fleming dies|date=28 September 2017|publisher=eurovision.tv|access-date=6 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiwibloggs.com/2017/09/30/memoriam-joy-fleming-passed-away-aged-72/197137/|title=In memoriam: German Eurovision legend Joy Fleming has passed away, aged 72|date=30 September 2017|publisher=[[Wiwibloggs]]|access-date=6 April 2020}}</ref>

She had a hit Disco record with the song and album "The Final Thing" in 1978 on Atlantic Records in the U.S. This was a covered song by the original artist Steve Bender (a member of the German Disco Group Dschinghis Khan) who also did the first version in 1976.

She made a further Eurovision bid in 1986, participating in the German national contest with the song "Miteinander". Her next involvement with Eurovision came in 2001 when, under a somewhat confusing arrangement with Swiss television she co-sang their contribution to the German final. The song, "Power of Trust" was performed with two other singers, [[Lesley Bogaert]] and [[Brigitte Oelke]], and was placed second. Fleming made another attempt in 2002 and finished as runner-up yet again, this time performing "[[Joy to the World]]" with the group Jambalaya.

She died in her sleep in her home in [[Sinsheim]] on 27 September 2017.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2017-09-28 |title=Todesursache: Woran starb Joy Fleming (†72)? |url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/promis/todesursache-woran-starb-joy-fleming-72-art-416427 |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de |language=de}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719053622/http://www.kv-events.de/joy-fleming.html Joy Fleming Management]

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