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Édith Piaf

July 2024

  • Céline Dion in an evening dress holding a microphone in her left hand and with her right arm extended

    Why Édith Piaf’s plaintive song was the perfect fit for Céline Dion at Paris Games

    The melody for the first live performance since 2020 by the singer, who has suffered with ill-health, was suitably tragic

November 2023

  • Édith Piaf performing in 1955.

    Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic

    In-development film comes after controversy around the re-creation of late stars’ voices, such as Anthony Bourdain

January 2023

  • Marilyn Stafford at a retrospective of her work at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery last year.

    Einstein, Piaf, Twiggy: Marilyn Stafford’s extraordinary life behind the lens

    The American photographer, who has died aged 97, was equally at home documenting war as she was shooting celebrity portraits

December 2022

  • Camille O’Sullivan as Édith Piaf, with Kwaku Fortune.

    Piaf review – Camille O’Sullivan fully inhabits the doomed chanteuse

    Pam Gems’ play may have dated, but the tragic arc of Édith Piaf from street urchin to torch singer is still compelling, told through music that rings with drama

March 2022

  • A Stafford picture for Givenchy, in Paris, circa 1955.

    ‘Einstein was smiling at me!’ Photographer Marilyn Stafford, 96, on celebrities, slums – and breakfast with Edith Piaf

    She took pictures of world leaders and war zones, sung in a Paris nightclub and befriended Cartier-Bresson – then left her pictures under her bed for decades. As an exhibition of her work opens, she looks back on her extraordinary life

July 2021

  • Alone at the microphone … Jenna Russell as Edith Piaf.

    Piaf review – the rise and fall of the Little Sparrow

    Jenna Russell captures the tragedy in this rags-to-rags story but the power of the songs can’t hide the play’s weaknesses

April 2019

  • Kraftwerk In Front Of World Time Clock In Keio Plaza Hotel<br>Kraftwerk in front of world time clock in Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, September 1981. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

    The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked!

    Brexit is delayed – so voyager avec nous on a trans-European tour of music, from Paris to Berlin via Finistère. Tout le monde à bord!

December 2017

  • Johnny Hallyday

    The tragedy of Johnny Hallyday? He should have sung Piaf, not Presley

    John Lichfield
    The French rocker was a symbol of cultural resistance – and a hell of a singer, says John Lichfield, a journalist based in France since 1997

July 2017

  • Butte-Bergeyre, Paris

    Why I love …
    ‘Paris is where I learned, like Hemingway, to be poor and happy’

    Vanessa Grall, blogger and author of Don’t be a Tourist in Paris, reveals her favourite out-of-the way museums, bistros and hotels

June 2016

  • Anne Carrere as Edith Piaf.

    Piaf! The Show – Carrere's soaring voice clinches slow-burn tribute to French star

    Anne Carrere takes Edith Piaf from Montmartre busker to Carnegie Hall in this theatrical concert whose thrills come gradually

December 2015

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on April 1, 1950 shows French singer Edith Piaf in New York. Born a century ago, her voice continues to vibrate, in France and worldwide: like every anniversary, the "Mome Piaf" relives through a handful of books and records reviewed and corrected. / AFP / INTERCONTINENTALE / STRINGERSTRINGER/AFP/Getty Images

    Music blog
    Edith Piaf at 100: the singer who defined Parisian courage

  • Edith Piaf in Montmartre, Paris, 1936.

    Edith Piaf’s Paris: exploring the Little Sparrow’s city

May 2015

  • Jessica Reed

    Women in France's Pantheon? I propose Josephine Baker

    Jessica Reed
  • German soldiers

    Le Corbusier, Piaf, the feuding Le Pens … the wartime rifts that still divide France

April 2015

  • Edith Piaf performs at the Olympia music hall, Paris in 1961.

    France celebrates singer Edith Piaf with exhibition for centenary of her birth

    Dramatic life of the Little Sparrow, the nation’s most famous singer, is remembered at the national library in Paris in year she would have turned 100

August 2014

  • Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose

    Five best moments
    Marion Cotillard: five best moments

  • Marion Cotillard

    Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’

June 2012

October 2011

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 12 October 1963: Cocteau dies on news of Piaf's death

    Originally published in the Guardian on 12 October 1963: The death of Jean Cocteau at one o'clock today seems to have been directly linked with that of Edith Piaf, who died at seven in the morning in a Paris nursing home

May 2011

  • Serge Gainsbourg

    Paris city guide
    Olivier Hutman's soundtrack to Paris

    As part of our new online city guides, we asked music experts to compile a playlist to their city. Here, jazz musician Olivier Hutman charts the heart and soul of Paris from Edith Piaf to Serge Gainsbourg

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