Happy Anniversary Francine Jordi!

Francine Jordi and Tony Rominger

EDITOR'S NOTE: Since we first published this article last year, Francine Jordi has come out publicly and declared her affection for Swiss rocker, Florian Ast. She has moved out of the house she shared with Tony Rominger and taken with her their Labrador Retriever, Theo. Read all the details on the Jordi-Ast affair by clicking here.


Actually it was a week ago today on May 18th, but European news takes a while to get to Chicago. We're talking about Swiss schlager/pop star Francine Jordi's second wedding anniversary. On that day in 2009, she married the Danish born Swiss bicycle racing star, Tony Rominger.

Rominger, 17 years Jordi's senior, (he's 51, she'll be 34 in a few weeks) was a formidable presence on the European bike racing circuit in the 90s, garnering a 2nd in the '93 Tour de France and winning the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995.

He also set a world 1 hour track record in 1994. He retired in '97 after breaking a collarbone during the Tour de France.

The couple was quietly married 2 years ago in the Franco-Swiss canton of Vaud in the Lake Geneva resort area.

Here is a very nice medley combining two of Jordi's songs appropriate to the occasion. First she performs the pop hit, Alles Steht und Fallt mit Dir (All stands or falls with you) and it is followed by the schlager offering, Was ist denn hier los? (What's going on here?)



Throughout her career, Jordi has had a tendency to get a bit hyper on-stage and to over emote. On occasion, she has flashed so much cleavage as to be almost embarassing. She tones it down and buttons it up considerably (maybe marriage has had an effect on her) in this very recent 2011 appearance on the Musikantenstadl TV show where she performs a very nice medley of some of her many hit songs: