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"Helena" is one of the most beautiful ballads of the so-called Flemish "kleinkunst" genre, a term used to indicate a typical singer songwriter style in Flanders and the Netherlands. It was written, composed and performed in 1970 by the otherwise relatively unknown Flemish musician Hugo Raspoet, and often covered afterwards, a.o. by Rocco Granata in 2006 and by Mama's Jasje in 1997. The song is highly melancholy - its lyrics are mystical, seemingly