Song:La Vie En Rose
Album:The Voice Of The Sparrow: The Very Best Of Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf is generally regarded as France's greatest popular singer and is still revered as an icon today. La Vie En Rose is her signature song. It's funny how someone so petite could be larger than life many years after her death. She was born Edith Giovanna Gassion Dec. 19, 1915 in Paris. The legend that she was born in the street is not true. She was born in a hospital like most of us. Her father was a street acrobat and her mother was a singer. Her mother ignored her so she went to live with her father after WWI and started performing with him. She went out on her own and sang in the streets of Paris. She gave birth to a daughter at age 17 but the little girl died of meningitis at age 2. In 1935, nightclub owner Louis Leplee found her singing in the street and took Edith under his wing. He named her The Little Sparrow. But Leplee was murdered by mobsters in 1936. The scandal threatened her singing career and she hired songwriter Raymond Asso to help her. He renamed her Edith Piaf and teamed her up with songwriter Marguerite Mennot and the two wrote songs tailored for Edith. She started to have some success and by the time she starred in Jean Cocteau's 1940 play Le Bel Indifferent, she was the toast of Paris. After WWII, started touring internationally and appearing in movies. She first recorded La Vie En Rose in 1946 and named to the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1988. She had great success through the 50s despite losing her husband in a 1949 plane crash and almost getting killed in a 1951 car crash. Edith Piaf died of liver cancer on Oct. 11, 1963 at age 47. This budget comp is a good intro to her music. Edith Piaf's legend continues today. She got the biopic treatment in the 2007 film La Vie En Rose. Her influence on French popular music is huge. Here's Edith Piaf performing La Vie En Rose in the 1947 film Neuf Garcons, Un Coeur. This video is not on Youtube.
Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose
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