I just watched a thoroughly engrossing documentary on Edith Piaf (Edith
Piaf - A Passionate Life) that was filmed four years after her death
in 1963. So here are some powerful performances from one of the greatest
singers who ever lived.
Her
best known hit - La Vie En Rose - is heard in this performance
from a 1954 TV broadcast.
Here
Edith defiantly sings that she has no regrets ('Non, je ne regrette rien'
from 1961). You don't have to speak the language to get the message, that's
for sure.
Piaf
sings a remarkable tune, this time in English - Hymn to Love
- from the 1951 US TV program Holidays in Paris. When Edith Piaf
died at age 47, hundreds of thousands of people showed up in the rain
to pay their respects.
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