Returning to one of our favorite subjects, the Weimer Era in Europe, we’re going to feature a famous and iconic-y stellar singer who got her start in Paris during the mid 1930s: Edith Piaf<\/p>\n
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Ms. Piaf got her start singing on the streets of Paris. From 3 to 7 she was apparently blind and\u00a0the\u00a0rumor is that she was miraculously cured after her grandmother, who was a cook at a brothel, got the prostitutes to all pitch in and send her on a pilgrimage honoring Saint Teresa de Lisieux. On the pilgrimage they say, her blindness was healed.<\/p>\n
At 14 she joined her father performing on the streets. Within a year she had\u00a0separated\u00a0from him. She made her living singing on the streets (your author has done the same playing piano)\u00a0for 6 years and in that time had her share of troubles. A local pimp wanted to recruit her and when she refused demanded she pay him large percentages of the money she pulled. At 17 she had a child who dies 2 years later. Finally, just after this, she was discovered by a nightclub owner.<\/p>\n
He arranged for her to sing at his club, billed and promoted the living Bejeexus out\u00a0of\u00a0the evening, and the rest is history. From 1935\u00a0onward\u00a0she was a star that\u00a0continued\u00a0rising and after WWII she went on to international fame.<\/p>\n
[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EBTIuFuS0LE]<\/p>\n
The love of\u00a0her\u00a0life, a French boxer, was killed in 1949 and in 1951 a car crash she was in and the resulting pain started her on a morphine and alcohol addiction that followed\u00a0her\u00a0the rest of\u00a0her\u00a0life.<\/p>\n
From 1955 to 1962 she was at\u00a0her\u00a0most famous, selling out theaters such as Carnegie Hall all\u00a0over\u00a0the world. \u00a0IN 1963 she died of liver cancer at age 47.<\/p>\n
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