In October 1963 the body of Édith Piaf arrived at the Paris cemetery.
He was 46 years old.
She was broke and looked like a much older woman from the damn drugs.
His life is marked by the worst of dramas and that pain became art, beauty, through his songs.
Shortly before dying he gave an interview where he showed himself without any kind of mask.
"If I were to live again, I would do the same," he
replied to the journalist who asked him about his regrets.
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Édith Giovanna Gassion was
born on December 19, 1915 under a lamppost in
front of 72 Rue de Belleville in Paris.
Daughter of an acrobat father and an itinerant singer mother, they say that the father got drunk the day Édith was about to be born and thus left his mother to her fate.
At age 14, Piaf began her solo career.
At 17 she became pregnant and a year and a half later the baby died of meningitis
.
Another blow for a young woman used to them and who knew how to turn pain into art, into beauty.
Paris, Montmartre 1936 / Getty
Her life was turning and tumbling, intertwining small victories with sonorous blows, until she herself wrote and sang
La Vie en Rose
, an eternal song that made her a star beyond the French borders.
Piaf escaped the canon of the female star of the time, but her voice, her personality and her immense talent knocked down any prejudice.
Despite being a hard woman, life was taking its toll on the singer, addicted to morphine and with an alcoholism that always accompanied her,
Piaf died too young after having drunk the world toasting with a smile.
His legacy, however, remains.
No one sang of love like her, like Billie Holiday, a woman with a sad life who gave her voice a unique touch.
This week we are going to remember her career and history from the hand of
Sara Morales, Toni Castarnado
, the singer
Mariaca Semprún
and the reports of
Jimena Marcos.
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