Johnny hallyday chante edith piaf biography
•
The man who made 'The Little Sparrow' fly
Fifty years ago this month, a failing songwriter sat down at his piano in his Paris flat and furiously bashed out the melody of a new song.
He was, he remembers, "angry and depressed". He had signed the lease for a new apartment but could scarcely afford to buy furniture, or food, for his wife and two children.
This week, Charles Dumont sat down behind the same piano in the same apartment and – at my request – played the same song. I asked, modestly, for a few notes. Dumont played, beautifully, to the soaring conclusion of what he calls the "song that changed my life".
In the past half-century, the royalties from that one piece of music have given Charles Dumont not riches, but what he describes as the "steady income of a senior civil servant".
Dumont's "angry" song has become one of the best-known, and best-loved, pieces of popular music. It has become the global symbol of la chanson Française (French popular music). It remains the signature tune, and the epitaph, of the most enduring of all French popular singers, Edith Piaf (1915-1963).
Although the song had no title when Dumont composed it (he vaguely intended it as a patriotic anthem) it was transformed by his co-writer and lyricist, Michel Vaucaire, into a paean to the huma
•
Jean-Philippe Smet, known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, French pronunciation: [dʒɔ.ni a.li.dɛ] (born 15 June 1943, Cité Malesherbes, Paris, France) is a French[1]singer and actor.[2] An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some[3] to have been the French Elvis Presley. He was married for 15 years to popular Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan and the two were considered a "golden couple" for 20 years. Hallyday has completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[4] He announced his retirement from performing on 3 December 2007, saying that he would retire in 2009,[5] after a farewell tour. However, Hallyday announced in March 2012 that he would perform inLos Angeles on 24 April, in Quebec City on 10 July and in New York City on 7 October, and he has continued to tour throughout the world (including Europe, North America, and Asia) through 2014.
Hallyday remains largely unknown outside of the Francophone world of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Guyana,
•