AP - Jan 16, 2009
A love letter written by French singer Edith Piaf to a younger Greek actor in which she confesses I am capable of giving everything up for you, was sold Friday at an auction in Greece. Officials at the...
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When Marion Cotillard won the best-actress Academy Award in February for her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Jil Aigrot, at home in the South of France, became very emotional. I was...
More »Reuters - Feb 22, 2004
Her great voice will not be lost, author Jean Cocteau said on the passing of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in October 1963. To mark the 40th anniversary of her death, Capitol/EMI France last...
More »AP - Feb 4, 2004
For five decades, names like Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix have blared out in neon letters above the doors of the Olympia concert hall. The famed Paris concert hall turns 50 on Thursday, marking...
More »AP - Jan 12, 2004
More than 1,000 fans poured into the streets Monday to bid farewell to Chinese pop diva and actress Anita Mui, who died last month at age 40. A private funeral for Mui, whose deep and melancholic voice...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2003
Jim Morrison s former band mates burned candles, a rose and a poem at his grave in Paris on Monday, a tribute to the Light My Fire singer and cult figure on what would have been his 60th birthday....
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