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Edith Piaf, formerly known as Edith Gassion, was born in Paris on December 19, 1915. Legend has it that her mother gave birth to her at a street lamp in Paris, but in fact she was born in a local hospital. His father Louis-Alphonse Gassion is a street juggler, and his mother Anita Maillard is a singing girl whose stage name is Line Marsa. Like the French football superstar Zidane who is just planning to retire, Piaf's mother Anita is of Kabylia (a nation in Algeria in North Africa, also known as Berbers, active on the Ibilisi Peninsula and mostly wanderers). "Inferior Frenchman". During the First World War, his father was in the army and his mother was engaged in street art to beg for life. He had no time to take care of his daughter. When he was young, Edith had to live with his grandmother in Normandy. In the country, she spent several years of happy time. After the war, her father took her back to her side. At the beginning of her life, there was no happiness at all. For the sake of living, their Caotai team wandered all over France. Hardships), poor Edith, had an early taste of the hardships of life. It may be inherited from the family, Piaf was born with a good voice, and gradually, she also officially became a member of the troupe. At the age of 15, this little country girl decided to leave her father and go to Paris alone. In 1932, she and Louis Dupon, who was also a wandering artist, had a daughter, Marcelle, a year later, but the little girl died of meningitis after only two years of age. Edith continued to sing on the streets until one day, Louis Leplée, the owner of one of Paris’s most elegant bars on the Avenue des Champs Elysées, Le Gerny's, accidentally heard this young girl singing , Was immediately fascinated by the voice of this petite woman. He immediately signed her, and gave her the stage name La Maume Piaf (in the Parisian dialect, this means "little bird"). Piaf's height is only 1.47m, indeed like a very poor bird. Piaf is an excellent combination of sentimentality, humor and harsh realism. She is the incarnation of traditional French songs.
From 1936 until his death, Piaf recorded many albums. Her last song was L'hommede Berlin, which she recorded in early 1963. Piaf was not rich when he was alive. In fact, Piaf has experienced many car accidents and drug problems. When she died, she left a large debt to her second husband who was many years younger than her. Piaf's life was brilliant but short, and she brought us endless joy in her way.
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owner Louis loved her very much, and recorded her first record Les Mémes de la cloche (meaning "country girl") in 36 years. But Piaf is always so miserable: in April of that year, Louis Leplée was murdered in his own home! Piaf was summoned by the police because of his close relationship with him... Various "entertainment media" exaggerated this "legend".
Piaf lost her backing, but she always has noble people to help her at critical moments. One of her "fan" Raymond Asso, a well-known adventurer, helped her quickly get rid of those annoying things and left le Gerny's bar. Under the guidance of Raymond Asso, Piaf slowly got rid of the rusticity of a country girl and the tackiness of his parents’ market class, and finally became the familiar Edith Piaf—a confused look and helpless. Looks like, her hair is bleak, her lips are red, her arms hang down along the wrinkled black sweater... She is no longer a bird in the country, she has become a stunner in Paris. This year, she filmed the first film, La garonne directed by Jean Limur, and a few months later it was the second film Bobino. For 40 years, she cohabited with the theater actor Paul Meurisse. Paul taught Piaf a lot of things, especially how to deal with social problems appropriately. Playwright Jean Cocteau wrote a play Le bel indifférent for them twice. With the help of her husband and Jean Cocteau, Piaf’s performance was a great success. This play also stimulated her interest in drama, showing Her acting talent.
Subsequently, the couple starred in Georges Lacombe's film Montmartre sur scène. During the filming process, Piaf formed a special friendship with Henri Contet, the music author of the film, and Henri later became Piaf's main songwriter.
Back then, this poor bird gradually became fuller. During World War II, Piaf was able to bravely resist the occupiers in her own way: despite the warnings of the Germans, she insisted on cooperating and performing with Jewish musicians. At this time, she has become mature, not only refers to her personality, but also refers to her artistic expression and her ability to coordinate with all aspects of society. She cleverly dealt with various forces, using her experience and achievements to realize her wishes.
In 44, Yves Montand, a hairy boy who first arrived in Paris, broke into her life. When she was over 30, she fell in love with him desperately, and spread her wings to protect the country boy who had just arrived in Paris. Piaf is no longer a bird, she has become a protector and guide. She may have a similar childhood life experience to Yves. She has love for Yves as well as a kind of affection that is close to maternal love. In order to introduce her production team to Yves, she asked her "queen" composer Henri Contet to write Yves' first famous songs Battling Joe and Luna park for the young man.
She introduced Yves to the social world step by step, instructed him to read and socialize, so that he quickly integrated with Paris (seeing this, are the boys tempted?). In 45 years, she co-starred with Montand in the film Etoile sans lumière.
45 years ago, Piaf had only one influential song written by herself, and that was La vie en Rose (composed by Louise). This song was once considered by people around her to be too advanced in consciousness and would not be popular, but as a result, now this song has almost become Chanson (French word, "song" meaning. Hong Kong and Taiwan translated it into a more beautiful "Chang Song") synonymous.
In 46 years, Piaf noticed the young singer-songwriter group Cmopagnons de la Chanson, she admired their talents very much. For the sake of herself and Yves, she managed to snare them to the door and write songs and music exclusively for herself and Yves. Under her spurs, she released an album Les trois cloches, and Yves obtained 1 million album sales...but for some unknown reason, she and Yves separated inexplicably this year. Maybe she foresaw the limitless future of Yves, so she chose to leave quietly... Among the male voice versions I have heard, the two versions of Yves and the African American Louis Armstrong are my favorites. of.
Maybe it's to relax, maybe it's to get rid of the past. In 47, she went to the United States for the first time for a concert and brought Cmopagnons de la Chanson with her. This trip to the New World is really a challenge for Piaf. The first few performances in the New York Playhouse can only be regarded as failures. The Yankees don't understand this woman. Of course, language is also a barrier to understanding. However, she decided to stay and moved the venue to Manhattan. She became more and more successful and gradually opened up the New World market. Of course, her gains don't stop there: she became lifelong friends with the actress and singer Marlène Dietrich, and fell in love with the famous boxer Marcel Cerdan. This love story between the boxing champion and the queen has become a hot topic in newspapers and newspapers in 47 years.
Piaf and Cerdan’s happiness is fulfilling. At that time, she collaborated with Marguerite Monnot to write a famous chanson for lovers: L'hymne à l'amour—her another immortal classic.
But doom seems to always be reluctant to stay away from this unfortunate and successful woman. On October 28, 49, Marcel Cerdan died suddenly due to an air crash, and the legend turned into a tragedy. This huge blow made Piaf never really freed it in her lifetime... Looking back, the man she loved was always taken away from her by a mysterious and unexpected force. She became a mystic and fatalist.
However, this strong woman did not stop working. She returned to Paris in 50 years and continued to perform in Pleyel. During this period, the young songwriter Charles Aznavour became the "all-rounder" by her side: her secretary, driver and confidant. In fact, since 45 years, she has been using her influence to help CHARLES, but she did not help Charles like Yves or Les Compagnons de la Chanson. But the loyal Aznavour still remembers her and wrote many excellent songs for her.
In 1951, Piaf once again found a new protector-the young American dancer and singer Eddie Constantine. But this story lasted only 7 months, and the mysterious event happened again: this time it was herself, she had two consecutive traffic accidents, of which the second time almost killed her. During the treatment
, she became addicted to drugs , and since then she has never been able to struggle from this terrible hobby... Continuous blows made her addicted to drugs and alcohol, which seriously damaged her body... She seemed to be addicted to drugs and alcohol. Wanting to change her destiny through marriage, in July 1952, she held the first formal wedding she had always dreamed of with singer Jacques Pills. After their marriage, they both went to the United States to perform. She performed several works written for her by her new husband and wife Jacques Pills. This is her fifth time to perform in the United States. Of course, Le Versailles, who let her open the door to the New World, is still a must-see.
This year, she experienced several adverse drug reactions and her health was very bad. But also in this year, she reached the peak of her personal artistic career, and she has continued to tour concerts. Her poor health almost dragged her down. In 53-54, she had to cultivate behind closed doors. However, after receiving an invitation to the Olympia Theater (the holy place for all singers) in 55 years, Piaf once again radiated amazing passion and energy. This performance was a great success and inspired her to continue her acting career.
At the Olympia concert again in 58, she performed her other important work, Mon manège à moi. Later, she met singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki. In September, she and Georges had another serious traffic accident... Then, at a concert in New York, Piaf fell on the stage. Seemingly foreseeing that there will not be much to come, she rejected the advice of friends and doctors and insisted on the 60-year Olympia concert as usual.
Piaf's rosy life is not over yet. In the summer of 61, she met Theophanis Lamboukas, the last man in her life. She called him Sarapo (Greek "I love you"). This Greek singer walked with her. The last journey of life. In July of this year, she accepted the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in her native France. On September 25, 62, under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, she sang Le Jour le plus long for all of Paris. Her brilliance is unparalleled.
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Early life
Despite numerous published biographies, much of Piaf's life is shrouded in mystery.[2] She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion[3] in Belleville, Paris, the high-immigration district later described by Daniel Pennac. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72, but her birth certificate states she was born at Hôpital Tenon,[4] the hospital for the 20th arrondissement of which Belleville is part. She was named Édith after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed for helping French soldiers escape from German captivity.[5] Piaf—a Francilien colloquialism for "sparrow"—originated as a nickname she would receive 20 years later.
Her mother, Annetta Giovanna Maillard (1895–1945), was a French pied noir of French-Italian descent on her father's side and of Kabyle Berber origin on her mother's. She was a native of Livorno, a port city on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. She was working as a café singer under the name Line Marsa.[4] Louis-Alphonse Gassion (1881–1944), Piaf's father, was a Norman street acrobat[6] with a past in the theatre. Piaf's parents soon abandoned her, and she lived for a short time with her Kabyle maternal grandmother, Emma (Aïcha) Saïd ben Mohammed (1876–1930). Before enlisting with the French Army in 1916 to fight in World War I, her father took Piaf to his mother, who ran a Normandy brothel. The prostitutes helped look after Piaf.[1]
From the age of three to seven, Piaf was allegedly blind as a result of keratitis. According to one of her biographies, she recovered her sight after her grandmother's prostitutes pooled money to send her on a pilgrimage honoring Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, resulting in a miraculous healing. In 1929, at 14, she joined her father in his acrobatic street performances all over France, where she first sang in public. [1] She took a room at Grand Hôtel de Clermont (18 rue Veron, Paris 18ème) and separated from him, going her own way as a street singer in Pigalle, Ménilmontant, and the Paris suburbs (cf. the song "Elle fréquentait la Rue Pigalle"). She joined her friend Simone Berteaut ("Mômone")[4] in this endeavor, and the two became lifelong partners in mischief.[1] She was about 16 when she fell in love with Louis Dupont,a delivery boy.[1] At 17, she had her only child, a girl named Marcelle, who died of meningitis at age two.[6] Like her mother, Piaf found it difficult to care for a child while living a life of the streets, so she often left Marcelle alone while she was away, and Dupont raised the child before her death.[1] Piaf's next boyfriend was a pimp named Albert who took a commission from the money she made singing in exchange for not forcing her into prostitution. One of her friends, a girl named Nadia, killed herself when faced with the thought of becoming a prostitute, and Albert nearly shot Piaf when she ended the relationship in reaction to Nadia's death.[1]Piaf found it difficult to care for a child while living a life of the streets, so she often left Marcelle alone while she was away, and Dupont raised the child before her death.[1] Piaf's next boyfriend was a pimp named Albert who took a commission from the money she made singing in exchange for not forcing her into prostitution. One of her friends, a girl named Nadia, killed herself when faced with the thought of becoming a prostitute, and Albert nearly shot Piaf when she ended the relationship in reaction to Nadia's death.[1]Piaf found it difficult to care for a child while living a life of the streets, so she often left Marcelle alone while she was away, and Dupont raised the child before her death.[1] Piaf's next boyfriend was a pimp named Albert who took a commission from the money she made singing in exchange for not forcing her into prostitution. One of her friends, a girl named Nadia, killed herself when faced with the thought of becoming a prostitute, and Albert nearly shot Piaf when she ended the relationship in reaction to Nadia's death.[1]killed herself when faced with the thought of becoming a prostitute, and Albert nearly shot Piaf when she ended the relationship in reaction to Nadia's death.[1]killed herself when faced with the thought of becoming a prostitute, and Albert nearly shot Piaf when she ended the relationship in reaction to Nadia's death.[1]
[edit] Singing career
In 1935 Piaf was discovered in the Pigalle area of Paris[1] by the nightclub owner Louis Leplée,[3] whose club Le Gerny off the Champs Élysées[6] was frequented by the upper and lower classes alike. He persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness, which, combined with her height of only 147 cm (4 feet 8 inches),[7][4] inspired him to give her the nickname that would stay with her for the rest of her life and serve as her stage name, La Môme Piaf[3] (The Waif Sparrow, Little Sparrow or Kid Sparrow in Parigot slang).[1] Leplée taught her the basics of stage presence and told her to wear a black dress which would later become her trademark apparel .[1] Leplée ran a large publicity campaign prior to her opening night, which resulted in a number of celebrities including actor Maurice Chevalier attending the opening.[1] Her nightclub gigs led to her first two records produced that same year,[7] with one of them penned by Marguerite Monnot, an ongoing collaborator throughout Piaf's life.[1]
On April 6, 1936,[1] Leplée was murdered and Piaf was questioned in the matter and accused of being an accessory, but she was acquitted.[3] He had been killed by mobsters with previous ties to Piaf.[8] This resulted in much negative media attention directed towards Piaf,[4] which threatened her career.[1] To rehabilitate her image, she recruited Raymond Asso, with whom she would also become romantically involved. He changed her stage name to "Édith Piaf, "barred her undesirable acquaintances from seeing her, and commissioned Monnot to write songs that reflected or alluded to Piaf's previous life on the streets.[1]
In 1940, Édith co-starred in Jean Cocteau's successful one-act play Le Bel Indifférent.[1] She began to make friends with famous people, such as Chevalier and the poet Jacques Borgeat. She wrote the lyrics of many of her songs and collaborated with composers on the tunes. In 1944, Édith Piaf discovered Yves Montand in Paris, made him part of her act, and became his mentor[4] and lover.[8] Within a year, he became one of the most famous singers in France, and she broke off their relationship when he had become almost as popular as she was.[1]
During this time, she was in great demand and very successful in Paris[3] as France's most popular entertainer.[7] After the war, she became known internationally,[3] touring Europe, the United States, and South America. She helped to launch the career of Charles Aznavour in the early 1950s, taking him on tour with her in France and the United States and recording some of his songs.[1] At first she met with little success with US audiences, who regarded her as downcast.[1] After a glowing review by a prominent New York critic, though, she met with better success[1] and her popularity in the United States was such that she appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show eight times and at Carnegie Hall twice (1956[6] and 1957).
Edith Piaf's signature song "La vie en rose"[1] was written in 1945 and was voted a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998.
The legendary Paris Olympia concert hall is where Piaf achieved lasting fame, giving several series of concerts at the hall , the most famous venue in Paris,[4] between January 1955 and October 1962. Excerpts from five of these concerts (1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) were issued on record and CD and have never been out of print. The 1961 concerts were promised by Piaf in an effort to save the venue from bankruptcy and where she debuted her song "Non, je ne regrette rien".[4] In April 1963, Piaf recorded her last song, "L'homme de Berlin" .
[edit] World War II
During World War II, she was a frequent performer at German Forces social gatherings in occupied France, and many considered her a traitor; following the war she claimed to have been working for the French resistance. While there is no evidence of this per se, it does seem to be true that she was instrumental in helping a number of individuals (including at least one Jew) escape Nazi persecution. Throughout it all, she remained a national and international favorite.[9] Piaf dated a Jewish pianist during this time and co-wrote a subtle protest song with Monnot.[1] According to one story, singing for high-ranking Germans at the One Two Two Club[10] earned Piaf the right to pose for photographs with French prisoners of war, to boost their morale. The Frenchmen were supposedly able to cut out their photos and use them as forged passport photos,[10] and some of them managed to escape.
[edit] Personal life
The love of Piaf's life,[3] the married boxer Marcel Cerdan, died in a plane crash in October 1949, while flying from Paris to New York City to meet her. Cerdan's Air France flight, flown on a Lockheed Constellation, went down in the Azores, killing everyone on board, including famous violinist Ginette Neveu.[11] Piaf and Cerdan's affair made international headlines,[4] as Cerdan was the middleweight world champion and a legend in France in his own right. Piaf was later married twice . Her first husband was Jacques Pills, a singer. They married in 1952 (Piaf's maid of honour was Marlene Dietrich) and divorced in 1956. Her second husband, Théo Sarapo, was a Greek hairdresser-turned-singer and actor[1] who was 20 years younger than Piaf. They married in 1962 and sang together in some of her last engagements.[1]
In 1951 Piaf was involved in a car crash along with Aznavour, breaking an arm and two ribs, and thereafter had difficulty breaking serious morphine and alcohol addictions.[1] Two more near-fatal car crashes exacerbated the situation.[6] Her first husband, Jacques Pills, took her into rehabilitation on three different occasions to no avail.[1]
Death and legacy
The grave of Édith Piaf, Père Lachaise Cemetery, ParisPiaf died of liver cancer at Plascassier, on the French Riviera, on 10 October 1963, but officially made public on the 11th, the same day that her friend Jean Cocteau died.[12] She slipped in and out of consciousness for the last months of her life.[6] It is said that Sarapo drove her body back to Paris secretly so that fans would think she had died in her hometown.[1][10] She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, where her grave is one of the most visited.[1]
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