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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.: xi  Having begun her career touring with her father at age fourteen, her fame increased during the German occupation of France, shortly after which (in 1945) she wrote the lyrics to her signature song, "La Vie en rose" ('life in pink'). She became France's most popular entertainer in the late 1940s, also touring Europe, South America and the United States, where her popularity led to eight appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Piaf continued to perform, including several series of concerts at the Paris Olympia music hall, until a few months before her death in 1963 at age 47. 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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