EDITH PIAF

Adam Líška
Sekunda
 INFORMATIONS
• born as Édith Giovanna Gassion
• Edith Piaf- Edith „vrabec“
• was a French singer-songwriter, cabaret
performer and film actress
• specialized in chanson and torch ballads
about love, loss and sorrow
 PERSONAL LIFE
• At age 17 Piaf had a daughter, Marcelle, who died
aged two
• Piaf neither wanted nor had other children
• The love of Piaf's life, the married boxer Marcel
Cerdan, died in a plane crash in October 1949
• In 1951, Piaf was seriously injured in a car crash along
with Charles Aznavour, breaking her arm and two ribs,
and thereafter had serious difficulties arising from
morphine and alcohol addictions
• Years of alcohol abuse alongside copious amounts of
medications, initially for arthritic pains and later
 „NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN“
• my feeling: Very interesting and
grandiose song
• a French song composed by
Charles Dumont
• was written in 1956
 „PADAM PADAM“
• My feeling: great and imposing waltz
• a song originally released in 1951
by Piaf
• was written for her by Henri Contet
and Norbert Glanzberg
 QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEW

• What is your best composition from your life?

• If you could change something from your life, what would it
be?
• What was Marcel Cerdan?
• Was it difficult when your daughter died?
• Would you like to refer something to young singers?
THANKS FOR PAYING ATTENTION