Edith Piaf (December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963) was one of France's most famous and beloved female singers.
Much of her work is a reflection of her tragic life, with her best-known songs including LaVieenRose (1945), HymneàL'Amour (1949), My Lords (Milord, 1959), and I Have No Regrets (Non. jeneregretterien, 1960).
After middle age, Piaf was involved in a car accident and became addicted to morphine injections for pain and alcoholism. on October 11, 1963, Piaf died of liver cancer at the age of 48 in Grasse.
France*** and the state gave her a state funeral, making her a national icon.
Edith Piaf was affectionately known in France as "LaM_me", and her tragic and legendary life was reflected in the movie "La Vieen Rose", released in 2007.
Chinese name: Edith Piaf
Foreign name: Edith Piaf
Alias: Edith Piaf
Nationality: French
Nationality: French
Place of birth: Belleville, Paris
Date of birth: December 19, 1915
Death Date: October 11, 1963
Occupation: Singer, actress
Faith: Orthodox
Major Achievements: Queen of Chanson
Representative Works: "Les Mmesdelacloche" Monmanègeàmoi
Famous Songs: "Salut d'amour", "I have no regrets"
Films made: Bobino
Biography: La Vie en Rose
Years active: 1935-1963
Hobbies: Singing
Specialties: Singing, Acting
Sex: Female
Causes of death: Liver cancer
Sign: Sagittarius
Nickname: Little Sparrow
End age: 48
Early years
Despite the many biographies that have existed of _dithPiaf_, much of her life remains shrouded in mystery.
Edith Piaf, whose original name was _dithGiovannaGassion, was born in Belleville, an area with a high rate of immigration.
Edith (_dith) was named after Edith Cavell, a British nurse in World War I who was executed for helping French soldiers escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp, and Edith Piaf's Piaf, the nickname she got after 20 years of popularity, was "little sparrow" (sparrow) in the dialect of the Paris region (Ile-de-France).
Edith Piaf's mother was AnnettaGiovanna Maillard (1895-1945), and her father was of French and Italian descent, while her mother was of Berber origin. She was a native of Livorno, a western port city in Tuscany, Italy. She works as a resident singer in a cafe under the name LineMarsa.
Edith's father, Louis-Alphonse Gassion (1881-1944), originally worked in the theater before falling into the role of a street acrobat in Normandy.
Edith's parents later abandoned her, and she lived for some time with her grandmother, Emma (1876-1930), who left her in the care of her grandmother, who ran a brothel in Normandy, in 1916, before her father followed the French army into the First World War. The prostitutes who worked there also helped care for little Edith from time to time.
Edith is said to have been blinded by keratitis between the ages of three and seven. According to one of Edith's biographies, Edith regained her sight after the prostitutes chipped in to send her on a pilgrimage to the Thérèse of Lisieux, an incredible and miraculous recovery that the author attributes to the pilgrimage.
Acting experience
In 1929, at the age of fourteen, Edite followed her father in the streets of France, and it was at the same time that she sang in public for the first time.
Later, Edith Piaf rented a room at the Grand Hotel in Clermont (18 rue Verona, 18th arrondissement, Paris) and sang her way through the streets of the Montmartre-Pigalle district and the Moscow suburbs (singing songs such as EllefréquentaitlaRuePigalle).
Edith Piaf was born with a great voice, and gradually she became a full-fledged member of the troupe, and at the age of 15, the little country sister was determined to leave her father behind and make her way to Paris on her own.
The sisters appeared together in Georges Lacombe's film Montmartresurscène.
During World War II, Piaf was already able to bravely resist the occupiers on her own terms: she insisted on collaborating and performing with Jewish musicians, despite German warnings.
Before 1945, Piaf had only one influential song with her own lyrics, LavieenRose (composed by Louiguy). This song was considered by those around her to be too forward thinking to be popular, but as it turned out, it has now become almost a chanson (a French word meaning "song". RTHK translates it as the more aesthetically pleasing "chanson").
First concert in the United States in 1947.
Personal life
Emotions
In 1944, Yves Montand, a young boy who had just arrived in Paris, came into her life. Over 30 years old, she falls in love with him against all odds and spreads her wings to protect this country boy new to Paris. Piaf is no longer a birdie, she becomes a goddess of protection and a guide. Possibly sharing a similar early childhood experience with Yves, she has both a lover's love for him and an almost maternal affection. To introduce her production team to Yves, she asked her "royal" composer Henri Contet to write Yves' earliest hits, Battling Joe and Lunapark, for the young man.
In 1946, Piaf noticed a young singer-songwriter duo, Cmopagnonsdela Chapin, who had been working on a new album for the last few years. CmopagnonsdelaChanson, and she admired their talent. For her own sake and Yves', she managed to get them under her wing; writing songs and compositions specifically for herself and Yves. She facilitated the release of the album Lestroiscloches, which sold 1 million records, but for reasons unknown, she and Yves were inexplicably separated that year. Perhaps she foresaw an unlimited future for Yves and chose to leave quietly
Perhaps for a break, perhaps to get away from the past.47 She traveled to the U.S. for the first time for a concert, bringing CmopagnonsdelaChanson with her.
She decided to stay, and moved her show to Manhattan, where she became lifelong friends with actress and singer Marlène Dietrich and fell in love with famous boxer Marcel Cerdan. This love story between the boxer and the songstress became the talk of newspapers large and small in 1947.
Piaf's happiness with Cerdan was full, and it was then that she collaborated with Marguerite Monnot to write the famous chanson for lovers: L'hymneàl'amour - another of her immortal classics.
A rough life
The legend turned to tragedy on October 28, 1949, when Marcel Cerdan suddenly died in a plane crash. Never truly free to look back, the man she loved was always taken from her by a mysterious, unexpected force. She became a mystic and a fatalist.
She returned to Paris in 1950 and continued to perform at Pleyel. During this period, the young songwriter Charles Aznavour became her "all-rounder": her secretary, driver and confidant. In fact, she had been using her influence to help CHARLES since 1945.
In 1951, the mystery resurfaced when she was involved in two consecutive traffic accidents, the second of which nearly killed her. During her treatment, she becomes addicted to drugs and alcohol, which severely damages her body.
Once again at the Olympia in 1958, she performed another of her major compositions, Monmanègeàmoi, and met singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki, with whom she and Georges were involved in yet another serious traffic accident in September and then collapsed onstage during a concert in New York.
In the summer of 1961, she met the last man in her life, Theophanis Lamboukas, whom she called Sarapo (Greek for "I love you"). This Greek singer accompanied her on the last journey of her life. In July of that year, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in her native France.
On September 25, 1962, she sang LeJourlepluslong for all of Paris under the Eiffel Tower in a blaze of glory, and on October 9, she married Theophanis Lamboukas, her TheoSarapo. In January 1963, the couple released her final hit, Aquoi _asertl'amour? (an ominous name - "What's the use of love?"). In April, the indomitable woman finally collapsed.
Leaving this world on October 11, 1963, the same day as her close friend, playwright Jean Cocteau. Funeral services were held in Paris on October 14, with tens of thousands of fans following on foot to the PèreLachaise cemetery, where to this day her grave is still adorned daily with flowers from her admirers.In 1996, a concert called Piafjet'aime was held in Paris, where many of her songs have become y embedded in the lives of French people.
The Horse That Could
Louis Leplée - owner of leGerny's, one of Paris's most elegant bars on the AvenuedesChampsElysées - overheard the young girl's voice. -overheard this young girl singing and was immediately mesmerized by this petite woman's voice. He signed her immediately and gave her the stage name M_mePiaf (m_me means "little one" in the French spoken language. Piaf is only 1.47m tall, so she really looks like a poor little sparrow. Boss Louis doted on her and made her first recording, Les Mmesdelacloche ("The Country Girls"), in '36.
Fans helping fans
Piaf was unlucky: in April of that year, Louis Leplée was murdered in his own home! The "entertainment media" then played up the "saga".
One of her "fans", Raymond Asso, a well known adventurer, helps her to quickly get rid of the nuisance and leave leGerny's bar. Under RaymondAsso's guidance, Piaf slowly sheds her countrywoman's earthiness and the vulgarity she picked up in her parents' marketplace class, and eventually becomes the Edith Piaf everyone knows - a confused, helpless look, with miserable hair, fishy red lips, and arms that hang down along her wrinkled black sweater. black sweater sagging.
She was no longer a country bird; she had become a Parisian icon. That year she made her first film, Lagar?onne, directed by JeanLimur, followed a few months later by her second, Bobino. in '40, she moved in with the theater actor Paul Meurisse, who taught Piaf a great deal, not least how to deal decently with society's problems. The playwright Jean Cocteau wrote a play for them, Lebelindifférent, and with the help of her husband and Jean Cocteau, Piaf's performances were a great success, and the play sparked her interest in the theater and showed her talent as an actress.
Passing away
Edith Piaf died of liver cancer on October 11, 1963, in Plascassier, C?te d'Azur, at the age of 47. In 1997 Charles Aznavour utilized contemporary technology to produce the classic Plusbleuquetesyeux of his voice with the voice of her who had passed away, which set off a a wave of covers of her hits. In fact, since she left us, countless international stars have covered her work, such as Louis Armstrong, Joséphine Baker, Marlene Dietrich, Liza Minnelli, SERGEGAINSBOURG, and JOHNNYHALLYDAY.
On October 11, 2003, on the 40th anniversary of her death, the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delano?unveiled a statue of her, which sits on the Place Edith Piaf, not far from the Tenon (del'hospitalTenon) hospital, where, in 1915, EDITH was born. Place.
Major works
From 1936 until her death, Piaf recorded many albums. Her last song was L'hommedeBerlin, which she recorded in early 1963. Piaf was not wealthy while she was alive. In fact, Piaf was involved in a number of car accidents, had a drug problem, and left a large debt to her second husband, who was much younger than her, at the time of her death. Piaf's life was a brilliant but short one, and she brought us endless joy in her own way.
When TuEsPartout plays on the phonograph before the shelling and smoke-filled showdown in the movie "Saving Private Ryan," the song is "You're Everywhere," sung by renowned French chanteuse Edith Piaf.
In 2007, a biopic called "La Vie en Rose" (aka: A Life in Pink (Hong Kong)/Lavieenrose/Edith Piaf) appeared, depicting Edith Piaf's troubled and glittering life. Directed by French director Olivier Daeng, it stars Marion Cotillard as the ill-fated diva. Goetia's vocals are occasionally heard in the movie La Vie en Rose you, however, most of the songs remain Piaf's recorded renditions or are sung by Jill Egglott (as they sound extremely similar).
The movie recreates the Parisian accordion obsession of yesteryear and the nightclubs of the era, where the cups and plates were in disarray. But the power of Piaf's own story dominates. Her life was filled with romance and pathos, from the fiery concerts of Paris and New York to a series of raucous, tumultuous relationships and the great pain of the plane crash that killed her children and the love of her life, boxer Michael Hidan.
Her song "Non,JeNeRegretteRien" (No, I don't regret it at all) is a song that also became an important piece of music for the movie "Inception".
Tracks:
EdithPiaf-LaVieenRose.
EdithPiaf-Lesamants
EdithPiaf-MonLégionnaire.
EdithPiaf-Johnny,TuN' EsPasunAnge.
EdithPiaf-Heureuse.
EdithPiaf-LeGitanetlaFille.
EdithPiaf-InconnuExceptédeDieu.
EdithPiaf- Popurrifrancesa.
EdithPiaf-Besame
EdithPiaf-EmportéeParLaFoule (PubPerrier).
EdithPiaf-L'Accordeoniste.
EdithPiaf-NotreDamedeParis.
EDITHPIAF-Jeneveuxpastravailler. .
EdithPiaf-LaJavaBleue.
EdithPiaf-LaMarseillaise.
EdithPiaf-LesFeuillesMortes
EdithPiaf-LesRosesBlanches.
EdithPiaf-LiliMarlene.
EdithPiaf-Milord.
edithpiaf-MonamantdeSaintJean.
EdithPiaf-Monmanegeamoi. EdithPiaf-Nemequittepas.
EdithPiaf-NonJeNeRegretteRien.
EdithPiaf-PadamPadam.
EdithPiaf-Polichinelle.
EdithPiaf-Rienderien.
edithpiaf-TheVeryBestOf-album.
EdithPiaf-TuesPartout (SavingPrivateRyan).
EdithPiaf&JaquesBrel-Duet.
EdithPiaf&LesCompagnonsdelaChanson-LesTroisCloche.
EdithPiaf-L'AigleNoir.
EdithPiaf-SousLeCielDeParis.
EdithPiaf-L'hommealamoto1'
EdithPiaff-MonDieu.
EdithPiaff-TuMeFaisTournerLaTete !.
Edith Piaff&Charles Aznavour-Lebleudetesyeux.
Edith Piaf-L'hymneàl'amour.
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Personal Evaluation
Edith Piaff was born in 1915. There is a legend that her mother gave birth to her by a streetlight in a Parisian street, but in fact she was born in a local hospital. Piaf's real name was Edith Garson and her father was an acrobat and her mother a street singer. They didn't do much to care for the newborn girl. Piaf grew up performing on the streets with her parents. One day, a nightclub owner discovered this musical wunderkind and signed her to a contract, renaming her La M?me Piaf (meaning the little lark). Piaf was a superb combination of sentimentality, humor, and harsh realism, and she will always be the embodiment of traditional French song.
At the 80th Academy Awards, French actress Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress award for her precise interpretation of Edith Piaf's musical biography, "La Vie en Rose," saying in an interview that she felt the same way as Edith Piaf in the movie, growing from an obscure country girl to a stage star. She said in an interview that she felt like Edith Piaf when she appeared in the movie, from an unknown country girl to the center of attention on the stage, and that the life she got from the movie was true love.
Although EdithPiaf grew up without the love and care of a family, she was given the deepest warmth by Titine in her grandmother's brothel. Despite the loss of her two-year-old daughter and not enjoying the love of a child for her mother, she still loved her singing career. Despite the richness of her tumultuous love affairs, the death of her lover dealt her a merciless blow. Lacking love, longing for love, and giving love seemed to become her lifelong belief. It is a person who believes in love so much, and devotes her love to her singing career that makes us lucky to hear such beautiful songs, with humor that alludes to the mockery of reality, and sadness that is not lacking in depth. Edith Piaf faces the trick of fate with her inexhaustible passion for singing, and her eternal love for the things around her.
Edith Piaf's combination of sentimentality, humor, and harsh realism makes her the embodiment of traditional French song. LaVieEnRose is one of the most popular of the many songs she left the world, and even jazz great Louis Armstrong said it was his favorite. Speaking of the popular classic song "LaVieEnRose", it has endured for more than 20 years since it was first released. In the world, it is more famous than the French Marseillaise March, and is even regarded as the French national anthem by foreigners. The song is also known as one of the "twenty greatest French chansons". The lyrics were written by Edith Piaf herself, and it was the first song she ever wrote. Edith Piaf's songs make up three of the "20 Greatest French Chansons", the other two being the equally famous "Hymne à L'amour" and "Non Je Ne Regrette". Edith Piaf, like a flower that never dies, will always have a following, and her greatest hits will never die.
LaVieenRose
(LaVieenRose) - in honor of Edith Piaf
Desyeuxquifontbaiserlesmiens His lips kiss my eyes
UnrirequiseperdsursaboucheThe shadow of his smile swept across his mouth
VoilaleportraitsansretoucheThis was his original image
Del'hommeauquelj' appartiens this man, I belong to him
Quandilmeprenddanssesbras when he took me in his arms
Jevoislavieenrose I saw a rose-colored life
llmeditdesmotsd'amour He speaks words of love to me
Desmotsdetouslesjours have endless words of love every day
Etcamefaitquelquechose this is not ordinary for me
llestentredansmoncoeur a warm current of happiness
Unepartdebonheur flows into my heart
Dontjeconnaislacause I know exactly where it's coming from
C'estluipourmoi that's what you do for me
Moipourlui I do for you
Danslavie in life
llmel'adit,l'ajure he said this to me, swore this
Pourlavie with his life
Desquejel' apercois as soon as I think of this
Alorsjemesensenmoi I feel it inside
Moncoeurquibat the heart is leaping
Desnuitsd'amourplusfinir the night of love never ends
UngrandbonheurquiprendsaplaceHappiness is long instead of night
Lesennuis,leschagrinstrepassentTroubles and sorrows are all gone
Heureux,heureuxaenmourirHappiness, happiness all the days of my life until I die
Quandilmeprenddanssesbras When he took me in his arms
Jevoislavieenrose I saw a rose-colored life
llmeditdesmotsd'amour He spoke words of love to me
Desmotsdetouslesjours Everyday there are endless words of love
Etcamefaitquelquechose This is not ordinary for me
llestentredansmoncoeur A warm current of happiness
Unepartdebonheur flows into my
Dontjeconnaislacause I know exactly where it comes from
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