The queen of the night passed away on a Sunday morning.
The funeral of singer and actress Régina Zylberberg, alias Régine, who died on Sunday at the age of 92, will take place on May 9 in Paris, her granddaughter Daphné Rotcajg announced on Monday.
The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery, Salle de la Coupole.
Régine, icon of the 1960s, had owned 22 discotheques that bore her first name all over the world, starting with the mythical "Chez Régine" near the Champs-Élysées, which quickly became the meeting place for all of Paris and the jet set.
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It was she who had replaced the "jukeboxes" (automatic distributors of songs recorded on discs) by record players and disc jockeys.
“She was everywhere the lights shone, in her clubs, on the stages of the Olympia, Bobino, Folies Bergère or Carnegie Hall, and even on our screens,” wrote the Élysée.
“The President of the Republic and his wife salute a great figure in Parisian nightlife and French song.
They address to his family, to all those who have danced at Régine, to all the French people who like to sing his songs, their heartfelt condolences.
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Jane Birkin, who shares the same agent as Régine, told Le Parisien that she remembered a "generous, brilliant woman, who had such a taste for celebration and life".