- On 19 November 2007 he celebrated in the Stadsschouwburg in Sint-Niklaas his 85th birthday with a very last performance.
- In 2001, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Radio 2 (Belgium) for a life full of music.
- He has performed throughout Europe with the orchestras of Helmut Zacharias and Kurt Edelhagen.
- He became famous by his interpretation of the song 'Tulips from Amsterdam' in Dutch and German.
- He won the award of Radio Luxembourg, "Le Coq de la Chanson Française", in Deauville.
- He won in 1956 In Venice the Golden Gondola, a competition that is seen as the predecessor of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- In 1957 he won the Grand Prize of the Dutch Song in Antwerp with the song "two blue children's eyes" by composer Hans Flower.
- On 11 February 2002 Jean Walter became eighty and he celebrated his sixty year career in the presence of numerous friends and colleagues.
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