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Édith Piaf

1915 - 1963

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Édith Giovanna Gassion (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963), known as Édith Piaf (French: [edit pjaf]), was a French singer and lyricist best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century. Having begun her career touring with her father at age fourteen, she was discovered in 1935 in Paris by night club owner Louis Leplée, and achieved her first successes in the "Theatre de l'ABC" among others with the song "Mon Légionnaire". Owner of the ABC music hall Mitty Goldin also wrote songs for her, e.g. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édith Piaf is the 2nd most popular singer, the 26th most popular biography from France (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular French Singer.

Édith Piaf is most famous for her voice.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Édith Piaf ranks 2 out of 4,381. Before her are Elvis Presley. After her are Cher, Maria Callas, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Luciano Pavarotti, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Tom Jones, Charles Aznavour, and Marvin Gaye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Édith Piaf ranks 1. After her are Augusto Pinochet, Vasily Zaitsev, Charles H. Townes, Frank Sinatra, Roland Barthes, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Moshe Dayan, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Orson Welles, and Arthur Miller. Among people deceased in 1963, Édith Piaf ranks 2. Before her is Pope John XXIII. After her are John F. Kennedy, Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, W. E. B. Du Bois, Tristan Tzara, Lee Harvey Oswald, and C. S. Lewis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édith Piaf ranks 26 out of 6,770. Before her are Charles de Gaulle (1890), Nostradamus (1503), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Henri Matisse (1869), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), and Caracalla (188). After her are Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Alain Delon (1935), Auguste Comte (1798), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780).

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Among SINGERS In France

Among singers born in France, Édith Piaf ranks 1. After her are Charles Aznavour (1924), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Françoise Hardy (1944), France Gall (1947), Carlos Gardel (1890), Johnny Hallyday (1943), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Georges Brassens (1921), and Maria Malibran (1808).

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