"Non ho l'età ", sometimes also given as "Non ho l'età", was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 held in Copenhagen. It was performed in Italian by Gigliola Cinquetti representing Italy. Like all previous Italian Eurovision entries, the song had also won that year's Sanremo Music Festival. Cinquetti was sixteen years old, making her the youngest Eurovision winner in history until 1986 when Belgium's Sandra Kim won the contest with "J'aime la vie" - initially claiming to be fifteen, it was later revealed that Kim was only thirteen. In 1990, the EBU made a new rule requiring contestants to be aged 16 or older before the contest; this age rule still operates. The song was performed twelfth on the night, following Portugal's António Calvário with "Oração" and preceding Yugoslavia's Sabahudin Kurt with "Život je sklopio krug". By the close of voting, it had received 49 points, placing it first in a field of 16. "Non ho l'età" became a considerable commercial success for Cinquetti, in Italy, the rest of Europe, Scandinavia and other countries worldwide; she also recorded the song in English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. The song has since been recorded by a wide range of artists in other languages, for example, in Icelandic as "Heyr mína bæn" by Ellý Vilhjálms. Lili Ivanova, a famous Bulgarian singer, and Hong Kong singer Rebecca Pan, covered the song in 1964. Belarusian singer Wiesława Drojecka covered the song in Polish. Anneli Sari made a Finnish cover. Sandra Reemer recorded the song in Dutch. The song was followed as Contest winner in 1965 by France Gall singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" for Luxembourg. It was followed as Italian representative at the 1965 Contest by Bobby Solo with "Se piangi, se ridi". Cinquetti returned to perform at the Contest in 1974, when she finished second with "Sì" after ABBA's "Waterloo". In 1991, she co-hosted the Contest with Toto Cutugno when it was held in Rome. Cinquetti was proved not to be a UK 'one-hit-wonder' when an English recording of her 1974 Eurovision entry reached #8 in the UK chart.
