Édith Piaf
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Background information
Birth name| Édith Giovanna Gassion |
Also known asLa Môme Piaf
(The Little Sparrow) |
Born19 December 1915(1915-12-19)
Belleville, Paris, France |
Died10 October 1963 (aged 47)
Plascassier, France |
Genre(s)cabaret
torch songs
chanson |
Occupation(s)| Singer, songwriter, actress |
Instrument(s)| Voice |
Voice type(s)| Mezzo-soprano[1] |
Years active| 1935 – 1963 |
Édith Piaf, born
Édith Giovanna Gassion (19 December 1915 - 10 October 1963), was a French singer and cultural icon of partly Algerian and Italian descent
[2][3][4] who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer."
[5] Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads. Among her songs are "
La vie en rose" (1946), "
Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "
Milord" (1959), "
Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "
l'Accordéoniste" (1941), "
Padam...Padam", and "
La Foule".
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[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط] Singing careerIn 1935 Piaf was discovered in the Pigalle area of Paris
[5] by the nightclub owner Louis Leplée,
[7] whose club
Le Gerny off the Champs-Élysées
[10] was frequented by the upper and lower classes alike. He persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness, which, combined with her height of only 1.42m (4'8"),
[8][11] inspired him to give her the nickname that would stay with her for the rest of her life and serve as her stage name,
La Môme Piaf[7] (The Waif Sparrow, The Little Sparrow or Kid Sparrow in
Parigot slang).
[5] Leplée taught her the basics of stage presence and told her to wear a black dress which would later become her trademark apparel.
[5] Leplée ran a large publicity campaign prior to her opening night, which resulted in celebrities including actor Maurice Chevalier attending the opening.
[5] Her nightclub gigs led to her first two records produced that same year,
[11] with one of them penned by Marguerite Monnot, a collaborator throughout Piaf's life.
[5]On 6 April 1936,
[5] Leplée was murdered and Piaf was questioned in the matter and accused of being an accessory, but she was acquitted.
[7] He had been killed by mobsters with previous ties to Piaf.
[12] This resulted in much negative media attention directed towards Piaf,
[8] which threatened her career.
[5] To rehabilitate her image, she recruited Raymond Asso, with whom she would also become romantically involved. He changed her stage name to "Édith Piaf", barred her undesirable acquaintances from seeing her, and commissioned Monnot to write songs that reflected or alluded to Piaf's previous life on the streets.
[5]In 1940, Édith co-starred in Jean Cocteau's successful one-act play
Le Bel Indifférent.
[5] She began to become friends with prominent people, such as Chevalier and the poet Jacques Borgeat. She wrote the lyrics of many of her songs and collaborated with composers on the tunes. In 1944, Édith Piaf discovered Yves Montand in Paris, made him part of her act, and became his mentor
[8] and lover.
[12] Within a year, he became one of the most famous singers in France, and she broke off their relationship when he had become almost as popular as she was.
[5]During this time, she was in great demand and very successful in Paris
[7] as France's most popular entertainer.
[11] After the war, she became known internationally,
[7] touring Europe, the United States, and South America. In Paris, she gave Atahualpa Yupanqui (Héctor Roberto Chavero)-the most important Argentine musician of folklore- the opportunity to share the scene, making debut in July of 1950. She helped to launch the career of Charles Aznavour in the early 1950s, taking him on tour with her in France and the United States and recording some of his songs.
[5] At first she met with little success with U.S. audiences, who regarded her as downcast.
[5] After a glowing review by a prominent New York critic, though, she met with better success
[5] and her popularity in the United States was such that she appeared on the
Ed Sullivan Show eight times and at Carnegie Hall twice (1956
[10] and 1957).
Édith Piaf's signature song "La vie en rose"
[5] was written in 1945 and was voted a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998.
The legendary Paris Olympia concert hall is where Piaf achieved lasting fame, giving several series of concerts at the hall, the most famous venue in Paris,
[8] between January 1955 and October 1962. Excerpts from five of these concerts (1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) were issued on record and CD and have never been out of print. The 1961 concerts were promised by Piaf in an effort to save the venue from bankruptcy and where she debuted her song "Non, je ne regrette rien".
[8] In April 1963, Piaf recorded her last song, "L'homme de Berlin".
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط] Death and legacy
The grave of Édith Piaf, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Bust of Édith Piaf in Kielce, Poland
Piaf died of liver cancer at Plascassier, on the French Riviera, on 10 October 1963, but only publicly disclosed on the 11th, the same day that Cocteau died.
[16] She slipped in and out of consciousness for the last months of her life.
[10] It is said that Sarapo drove her body back to Paris secretly so that fans would think she had died in her hometown.
[5][14] She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, where her grave is among the most visited.
[5]Although she was denied a funeral mass by the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris because of her lifestyle,
[14] her funeral procession drew tens of thousands
[5] of mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans.
[14][17] Aznavour recalled that Piaf's funeral procession was the only time since the end of World War II that he saw Parisian traffic come to a complete stop.
[14]The minor planet of 3772 Piaf, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982, is named after her.
[18]In Paris, a two-room museum is dedicated to her, the Musée Édith Piaf
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