Édith Piaf
For the play, see Piaf (play).| Édith Piaf | |
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| Born | 19 December 1915 Belleville, Paris, France |
| Died | October 11, 1963 (aged 47) Plascassier, France |
Édith Piaf (aka. "La Môme Piaf") (December 19, 1915 – October 11, 1963)[1] was one of France's most loved singers. Her real name was Édith Giovanna Gassion. She became a national icon. Her music was an image of her tragic life. Piaf was known for singing ballads in a heartbreaking voice.
As child at her grandmothers‘ in Normandy, she suffered from keratitis, but 1925 - 10 A pilgrimage to Lisieux in the Normandy honoring Saint Theresa of Lisieux / (Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus), and the intense devoutness of the family resulted in a miraculous healing, Édith said. 1930 – 15 Her manager fand her stage name „la môme Piaf“ or ‚la Môme‘,‘ Édith Piaf‘,or ‚Piaf‘. She was small (1,47 meter tall) and puny but sharp and lively like a chaffinch. She always wore a black dress on the stage. She sang first in Pigalle, then in Le Gerny, the nightclub of Louis Leplée near the Champs-Élysées. She met Raymond Asso (1901-1968) and Marguerite Monnot (1903-1961), who wrote and composed her best songs; she stroke up an acquaintance with actor Maurice Chevalier. 1948 – 32 The love of Piaf's life, the boxer Marcel Cerdan, middleweight champion of the world, died in a plane crash in October 1949, in the Azores, while flying from Paris to New York City to meet her. 1952 – 36 Piaf married Jacques Pills in 1952 (her matron of honour was Marlene Dietrich). She divorced him in 1956. In 1962, she wed Théo Sarapo (Theophanis Lamboukas), a Greek hairdresser who was 20 years her junior. She suffered from different illnesses during her life, especially after several car crashes. 1963 – 47 Piaf died of liver cancer at Plascassier, near Grasse (Département Alpes-Maritimes), on 10 October 1963.[2]
Among her most famous songs are "Mon légionnaire" (1936), "Le fanion de la Légion" (1936), "La vie en rose" (1946), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Padam... Padam..." (1951), "l'Accordéoniste" (1955), "Les amants d'un jour" (1956),"La foule" (1957), "Milord" (1959) and "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960).
Although she was denied a solemn funeral mass, her funeral procession from her residence, Boulevard Lannes (Paris, XVI arr.) drew tens of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris, that caused a huge traffic jam. The ceremony at the cemetery‚ Le Père-Lachaise‘ (Paris, XX arr.) was attended by more than 100,000 fans.
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Huey, Steve. Edith Piaf: Biography. Yahoo! Music.
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