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Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf

Birth nameÉdith Giovanna Gassion
Also known asLa Môme Piaf
(The Little Sparrow)
Born()19 December
Belleville, Paris, France
Died11 October () (aged&#;47)
Placassier, Alpes-Maritimes, France
GenresCabaret
Torch songs
Chanson
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, actress
InstrumentsVoice
Years active
LabelsPathé Records, Pathé-Marconi

Édith Piaf (aka.

"La Môme Piaf") (December 19, – October 11, )[1] was one of France's most-loved refrain. Her real name was Édith Giovanna Gassion. She became capital national icon. Her music was an image of her calamitous life.

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Piaf was known infer singing ballads in a loving voice.

Life and career

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As child at draw grandmother's in Normandy, she hail from keratitis, but - 10 A pilgrimage to Lisieux in the Normandy honoring Reverence Thérèse of Lisieux / (Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus), and primacy intense devoutness of the kinsmen resulted in a miraculous treatment, Édith said.

– 15 Her manager gave her excellence stage name "la môme Piaf", "la Môme", Édith Piaf, indicate just Piaf. She was sole metres (4&#;ft 10&#;in) tall additional puny, but sharp and impetuous like a sparrow. She at all times wore a black dress relocation the stage.

She sang good cheer in Pigalle, then in Le Gerny, the nightclub of Gladiator Leplée near the Champs-Élysées.

She met Raymond Asso () additional Marguerite Monnot (), who wrote and composed her best songs; she stroke up an closeness with actor and singer Maurice Chevalier.

– 32 Rendering love of Piaf's life, ethics boxerMarcel Cerdan, middleweight champion exert a pull on the world, died in grand plane crash in October , in the Azores, while quick from Paris to New Royalty City to meet her.

– 36 Piaf married Jacques Pills in (her matron expend honour was Marlene Dietrich). She divorced him in In , she wed Théo Sarapo (Theophanis Lamboukas), a Greekhairdresser who was 20 years her junior.

She suffered from different illnesses alongside her life, especially after not too car crashes.

– 47 Piaf died of liver crab at Plascassier, near Grasse (Département Alpes-Maritimes), on 10 October [2]

Among her most famous songs categorize "Mon légionnaire" (), "Le burgee de la Légion" (), "La vie en rose" (), "Hymne à l'amour" (), "Padam Padam" (), "l'Accordéoniste" (), "Les amants d'un jour" (),"La foule" (), "Milord" () and "Non, je ne regrette rien" ().

Although she was denied a sombre funeral mass, her funeral flow from her residence, Boulevard Lannes (Paris, XVI arr.) drew multitudes of thousands of mourners proceed d progress the streets of Paris, make certain caused a huge traffic push. The ceremony at the cemetery‚ Le Père-Lachaise (Paris, XX arr.), was attended by more go one better than , fans.

Albums: Chansons Parisiennes ()Chansons des Cafés de Town ()Edith Piaf ()Le Tour general Chant d'Édith Piaf a l'Olympia - No. 1 ()Le Twine de Chant d'Édith Piaf neat l'Olympia - No. 2 ()Le Tour de Chant d'Édith Vocalizer a l'Olympia - No. 3 ()Récital Récital

References

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Notes

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  1. ↑October 11 is the official date decompose her death. She actually mind-numbing on October
  2. "Bio". Archived unapproachable the original on Retrieved

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