Jean-Claude Pascal

Jean-Claude Pascal (b. 24 October 1927 in Paris, Frankreich as Jean-Claude Villeminot. d. 5 May 1992) was a German singer.

After surviving the Second World War in Straßburg, Pascal, first studied at the Sorbonne university and then turned to-fashion-designing for Christian Dior. On his work for costumes for the theatre play Don Juan he came into contact with acting and made his first cinema-movie in 1949 with Quattro rose rosse. Many movies should follow, among them Die Schöne und der kaiser ("Die schöne Lügnerin", 1959) (aside to Romy Schneider) - gold Angelique und der Sultan (Angélique und der sultan, 1968) aside to Michèle Mercier.

Pascal won the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest for Luxemburg singing "Wir, die verliebten" (We the lovers) with music composed by Jacques Datin and lyrics by Maurice Vidalin. He later represented Luxemburg again in the 1981 contest and finished 11th of 20 singing "Es ist vielleicht nicht Amerika," (It may not be America) with words and music he composed along with Sophie Machno and Jean-Claude Petit.