Roses blanches edith piaf biography

She left her daughter to be raised by her paternal grandmother who was the Madame of a brothel in Normandy. Edith became blind at 6 years old, so her grandmother and all the women that worked for her in the brothel traveled to Lisieux to ask Saint Theresa to heal Edith. Her eyesight recovered in Lisieux. It was during that time that Edith started to believe in God and in Jesus, but her prayers went always to Saint Theresa.

The whole time that I knew Edith Piaf, she knelt down near her bed at night and said her prayers. When Edith was twelve years old her father came to take her from her grandmother. Edith joined her father and started to sing in the streets and presented a plate for her living. He also gave her a stage name. The name and career of Edith Piaf started to grow.

She was a talented actress, but singing was her strength and her life. She began to have personal composers and eventually became the most famous French singer in the world. With her fame came wealth and she spent it freely. She was Edith's only child. Two individuals played significant roles in Edith Piaf's life and shaped her destiny. The first was Louis Leple, whom she met in He owned the cabaret 'Les Gernis' and invited the aspiring singer to work there.

Roses blanches edith piaf biography

Louis taught Edith to select songs, rehearse with accompanists, choose costumes, conduct herself on stage, and master gestures and facial expressions. It was he who came up with the name 'Piaf' for her, which meant 'sparrow'. From then on, she was known as 'Little Sparrow' on the billboards. Their fruitful creative partnership ended after Louis Leple's mysterious murder.

Soon after, another fateful encounter took place. Edith met the young poet Raymond Asso, who not only taught her etiquette and social behavior but also wrote songs for her to perform on the best stages in Paris. It was a true triumph. Edith Gassion, the scruffy little girl, who never stopped believing that she would become the great Edith, woke up famous.

Newspapers wrote about her, and all of France talked about her. Her voice resounded everywhere. She helped people as much as she could: performing in camps for prisoners of war, giving concerts for families of the deceased, and delivering fake documents to soldiers. Later, all of them expressed their gratitude to her with love and devotion.

The post-war years were a period of incredible success for Edith Piaf. Her songs were listened to by both ordinary workers and true art connoisseurs, residents of suburbs, and even the future Queen of England. There, prostitutes helped look after Edith. From the age of three to seven, Edith was allegedly blind as a result of keratitis, but made a miraculous recovery.

In Piaf was introduced to a group of young singers known as Les Compagnons de la Chanson. She recorded a single with the group, entitled Les trois cloches. It was an instant hit, selling over 1 million copies, and Piaf invited Les Compagnons de la Chanson to join her on her first tour of America the following year. Initially the American public were not receptive to Piaf's melodramatic style of song, but she eventually gained a legion of fans after a successful string of shows in New York, and her week-long stint at the Versailles was extended to four months.

The death of Marcel Cerdan in drove Edith into a deep depression which was echoed in her music, as her songs became increasingly dark and melodramatic.