Edith Piaf, a voice that sang with all life within – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
 

Loading roughly the myth around them, Edith Piaf was a singer who became the street. May or may not (there are contradictory versions) have there been born 100 years ago, it was certainly in homelessness and a painful existence and suffering that fueled his corner when, in fact, had little food to ensure its survival. “The most intense melodies that arrepanham my guts,” said the singer to France Soir in 1953, “are the street. I do not recess for receiving, jump me for the arms, penetrate me, make me drop a tear, scream my joy. Who wrote them? Those who set to music? Nobody knows. Belong to the world, are a family, are mine. “

In this interview, now recovered in the book that integrates the luxurious box Edith Piaf 1915-2015 , a kind full comprised 20CD with its compulsory subjects, performances at the Olympia, in Carnegie Hall and rare recordings, Piaf still speaks of his “cruel childhood”: “I went hungry, I cold, the street was my teacher made me what I became. Suffering was my school “Piaf dug in children and adolescents, an opposite relationship between his life and his art:. As its existence was sinking a whirlwind of misery and suffering, all this ballast was channeled for a artistic ferment that would generate the most iconic voices of French music.

No wonder, therefore, that by adopting a theatrical typical tone chanson of the 40s and 50s to sing La France – while China specializes in textiles, Thailand rice, Switzerland in bank accounts and Nicaragua in cocaine, France is distinguished in photocopies, tells us the song – the gesture interpretation of the French singer Camille on her latest album ( Ilo Veyou , 2012) has been taken as a wink to Piaf. Camille and tried to decentralize the option of La Môme, extending it to a brand of French music of the postwar period, but the truth is that all ears were tuned in Voice La Vie en Rose .

It does not hurt to realize that Piaf continues to be the most intense beacon of francophone music, along with Jacques Brel, this key feature of the local creation that is the dramatization the word and the song regarded as a space for staging a short story -. Gainsbourg, on the other hand, remains extremely alive in the current creators, but through a practice of the song while charm tool and seduction

It is easy, in fact, find a Piaf track in cabaret runaway invented by Brigitte Fontaine and documented since the 70′s until today in its pop avant-garde , or chanson rock Olivia Ruiz will now exploring. Georges Moustaki, eternal lover of the singer who today would 100 years, said in 2013, shortly before his death, that Piaf was very present and that when he thought “in Piaf and those in it are inspired by” perceived “to what extent it found Advanced – was the most modern “.

The major difference between La Môme and their” followers “is the interpretive thickness placed in each song, calling a tragic life (her) to the corner (fatally yours). Piaf, born in 1915 – one wants to believe that either in the street or under the hood of a police; it is argued now that has happened in much less extreme conditions, the Tenon Hospital, thanks to the dismantling piece by piece the myth of the biography of Robert Belleret, published in 2013 – the daughter of the street singer Annetta Maillard (Line Marsa its name artistic) and circus performer Louis Alphonse Gassion, have spent the first years of life with the paternal grandmother, Madame Titine, owner of a brothel in Bernay in Normandy. Exaggeration or not the construction of the myth, undisputed seems their unbridled attraction to bohemian and hedonistic environments, and for delivering the excesses.

That is why in every song marked by suffering or by loving disgrace, La Môme seems bathe If dilectas in its waters, a scenario that is not so much of self-pity, much less catharsis. In such dismal topics, we found the singer in peace with their world, where not seem able or interested in going out. , To listen for example, Heureuse , the subject of René Rouzaud and Marguerite Monnot with beginning the recording of their concert at the Olympia in 1955 (included in the box now published). After an effusive display and a piece of music that celebrates the arrival on the scene of a star that has room in his hand from the very beginning, Piaf opens his mouth and even a theme called Heureuse , the Your happiness seems a distant dream, not even a memory before an early desire as failed.