Edith Piaf (Biography) - ASTROLOGY OF THIRD MILLENNIUM

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Mar

Édith Piaf gave birth to Marcelle

Édith Piaf was born on 19 December 1915 in Paris during the First World War. Her father was an contortionist and antipodiste circus artist born in Castillon in France. Her mother was a street singer, born in Livorno, Italy.She was reared first by her maternal grandmother who left her without care and then by her paternal grandmother, madam of a brothel in Normandy. This gave her material security in her early years.According to legend, between the ages of three and six, she was blinded in both eyes. Her grandmother, together with Édith and all her boarders, went on a pilgrimage to the tomb o...

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4

Apr

Édith Piaf lost Marcelle

Two years after her birth, Édith Piaf lost Marcelle died of meningitis on 7 July 1935.During this time, Édith Piaf lived for a few months of odd jobs but resumed her vocation as a street singer with her partner Momone, a street singer like herself with whom she had started at the age of fourteen.In the autumn of 1935, she was noticed on the street and engaged for a week by the manager of the cabaret Le Gerny's, located on the Champs-Elysee. She was an immediate success and sang there for seven months. In Édith Piaf's Horoscope:On July 7, 1935, her daughter Marcelle died of meningi...

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11

Apr

Édith Piaf singer on the Champs Élysées

At the end of September 1935, Louis Leplee, manager of the cabaret Le Gerny's on the Champs Élysées met Édith Piaf singing between Avenue Mac-Mahon and rue Troyon in the Pigalle district in Paris. On 2 October 1935, he hired him for a week and gave him her artist's name la Môme Piaf (the Brat Sparrow). Piaf, the sparrow so frail in relation to her physical that contrasted so much with the power of her voice. She was so successful that he extended her contract until 6 April 1936, the day he was murdered. A Pigalle thug, knew of Édith Piaf, shot him in the head. She underwent 48 hours in cu...

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18

Apr

Édith Piaf success and crime on the Champs Élysées

Édith Piaf was confirmed as a success at the beginning of 1936. She recorded her first album for Polydor Les Mômes de la cloche which was a success. Her engagement at Gerny's on the Champs Élysées was renewed week after week until the murder of her manager Louis Leplee, on 6 April 1936. A thug of Pigalle, the old neighborhood where Édith Piaf had begun as a street singer, shot him in the head. She was arrested for questioning for 48 hours and then released for lack of evidence. Despite the seriousness of the situation, her career continued in music halls as Bobino and the Europeen in the ...

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25

Apr

Édith Piaf music-hall and comedy

In March 1937, Édith Piaf began her music-hall career at the A.B.C., the most prestigious in Paris. From that time on, her songs were adopted by the public and passed on the radio. In 1940, Jean Cocteau wrote her a play for the theater Le Bel Indifferent. She performed with the actor Paul Meurisse, her new lover. In 1941, she played in Georges Lacombe's film Montmartre-sur-Seine. During the war, Édith continued her career in Paris and sang as far away as Berlin. She sang some double meaning songs. She protected Jewish artists and her secretary, a member of the Resistance, testified that she ...

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29

Apr

Édith Piaf sang La Vie en rose

For her birthday on 19 December 1945 her song writer Henri Contet offered Édith Piaf the song La Vie en rose. She hesitated for several months and finally recorded it on October 9, 1946. This song became a standard covered by many artists around the world including Louis Armstrong, Mary Hopkin, Marlene Dietrich, Plácido Domingo, Diane Dufresne and more than forty other artists. In 1946, the film Étoile sans lumière was released, in which she played with Yves Montand. She made him known from the spring of 1944, when he sang at the Moulin Rouge in Paris as the opening act for her show. ...

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10

May

Édith Piaf waited for Marcel

On October 28, 1949, Édith Piaf waited for Marcel Cerdan, her new love, who was supposed to join her by the Paris-New York flight. In vain because Marcel Cerdan never arrived, his plane had just crashed in the night over the Azores archipelago.A year earlier, on 21 September 1948, Marcel Cerdan had won the middleweight boxing world title by technical knockout against King of the KO, Tony Zale. On September 14, 1949, a few weeks before his death, she sang Hymne à l'amour at the Versailles, a New York cabaret. Following this second loss of a loved one, after that of her daughter, Édith Piaf b...

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16

May

Édith Piaf a living myth

Édith Piaf’s last years were pathetic. She compensated for the physical suffering, due to several automobile accidents, the disease and several surgical operations, by morphine and alcohol which corroded her, revealing even more its physical brittleness which contrasted so much with her clear and powerful voice. She sang successfully in New York until she collapsed on stage in 1959. In 1961, she performed at the Olympia in Paris to save its director Bruno Coquatrix from bankruptcy.Édith Piaf died on October 10, 1963 at 13:10 in Grasse, on the Cote d’Azur (Alpes-Maritimes) in France at 47...

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