Overview

• In a new dpa interview marking her 75th birthday on October 5, the Swiss singer and TV host describes herself as "roundly happy" and outlines a simple philosophy for well-being.
• Felix calls her spring 2025 appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel a special gift, saying performing again before roughly 170 million viewers felt like a circle closing.
• She first competed for Switzerland at Eurovision in 1969 with "Bonjour, Bonjour" (second-highest points) and returned in 1980 with "Cinéma" (4th place).
• Felix became widely known in Germany co-hosting ARD’s "Verstehen Sie Spaß?" with her husband Kurt Felix from 1983 to 1990 before largely stepping away from show business in 1990 for a more private life.
• She recalls 33 years with Kurt Felix, who died in 2012, says she will not publish memoirs out of a promise to him, and even treats past mishaps—such as a 2001 on-air fall—with humor, as birthday tributes including one from Thomas Gottschalk roll in.