Monnot's Milord (1959), her greatest hit outside France,Ĭharles Domont's Non Je Ne Regrette Rien (1960), Norbert Glanzberg's Mon Manege a Moi (1958), Monnot's La Goulante de Pauvre Jean (1954), Gilbert Becaud's Je T'Ai Dans la Peau (1952) Her lovers provided quite a bit of her material,īut she wrote her romantic anthem La Vie en Rose (1946). She was famous both for her melodramatic style of singing and for theįamous lovers she took. Michel Emer's L'Accordeoniste (1940), another massive hit. Her first single was Les Momes de la Cloche (1936) andĪnd the following four years made her a star.Ĭredit goes largely to her manager Raymond Asso and to composer Marguerite Monnot, who wrote the music for Mon Legionnaire (1937), Un Jeune Homme Chantait (1937), Elle Frequentait la Rue Pigalle (1939), Paris-Mediterranee (1938), C'est Lui Que Mon Cour a Choisi (1938), Le Grand Voyage Du Pauvre Negre (1940), followed by She was the quintessential singer of lost love, but frequently set it againstĪ decadent backdrop of of sex, death and drugs. The living symbol of the artistic scene of the 1940s and of the moral revolution ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Legal restrictions - Termini d'uso )Įdith Piaf (Edith Gassion), who grew up in a circus and began singing in 1931, was a street singer who went on to become an icon of Paris, Edith Piaf: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings
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