Edith Piaf

Piaf, Edith

Piaf, Edith (pēäfˈ), 1915–63, French cabaret singer, born as Edith Giovanna Gassion. She began to sing at 15 in cafés and on the streets of Paris and was soon engaged to sing in a cabaret. Fame quickly followed her appearances in nightclubs all over Europe and America. Piaf appeared in several movies, starring in Le Bel Indifférent (1940), originally a play written for her by Jean Cocteau. Her highly emotional and powerful voice was enormously expressive, and she wrote many of her own songs. Her performance of the songs Non, je ne regrette rien [I Regret Nothing] and Milord were especially cherished by international audiences.

Bibliography

See her memoirs, Au bal de la chance (1958, tr. 1965); biographies by S. Berteaut, her half-sister (1972), and by C. Burke (2011).

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In the psychiatrist's chair

A music teacher in Montreal was accused of sacrilege after he left the final line of Edith Piaf's love song, "Hymne a l'amour," out of a year-end student performance, stating he merely wanted to avoid getting into a debate on religion with his 10- and 11-year-old students.

Mon dieu!

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French legend comes alive at Swiss Embassy

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Exhibition captures celebrity without the glitz and glamour

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One of the founders of modern photojournalism, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was also known for his portraits, in which he attempted to capture his subjects' "inner silence." This handsome volume contains 97 portraits taken between the 1930s and 1980s, including those of Martin Luther King, Simone de Beauvoir, Edith Piaf, and Carl Jung.

An inner silence; the portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson. (reprint, 2006)

But could you make it sound just a bit more overblown?" The former Soft Cell man turned torch song-singer extraordinaire will be channelling the ghost of Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf for this concert of his best bits.

BEST GIG

Next Thursday she returns to the Shedd with a program of French chansons by Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel.