October 10 marks the 50th death anniversary of French singer Edith Piaf. Nicknamed the "Little Sparrow," she was the country's biggest international star and the first to make it in the United States, ...
Warner Music has partnered with Piaf's estate for the upcoming biopic 'Edith' Gaston Paris/Roger Viollet via Getty Edith Piaf’s life story is being told with help from none other than the “La Vie en ...
Edith Piaf may have passed away in 1963 but this year, the year she would have turned 100, the memory of “the Little Sparrow” is just as strong as ever and enshrined as one of France’s most enduring ...
A new film — as well as several recently published books — have introduced a younger generation of French citizens to Edith Piaf, the singer nicknamed "the Sparrow." She was only 47 when she died of ...
Edith Piaf, at the time of her death in 1963, was easily as popular worldwide as, say, Doris Day or Rosemary Clooney. Yet she was no sweet “little sparrow,” which is what “piaf” means in French. “Her ...
A distinguished British stage veteran, she won an Olivier award in London and a Tony in New York for her dramatic portrayal of the French singer Édith Piaf. By Richard Sandomir Zaho de Sagazan has ...
France marked the centenary of Edith Piaf's birth Saturday with added poignancy, a month after the Paris attacks targeting the very joie-de-vivre that she embodied. “You have to keep going,” said ...