Article: Torch singing; performing resistance and desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: No bouquets and many regrets for Little Sparrow; Sketchy, ...
The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  December 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Marion Cotillard plays Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. Piaf was born in the same year as another tragic singer, Billie Holiday and very nearly died the same year that she did. But Edith Piaf somehow struggled on into the 1960s, her ...

Article: French Jazz Singer Raquel Bitton Captures Spirit of Edith ...
Business Wire;  November 30, 1999 ;     526 words ... ... album Raquel Bitton Sings Edith Piaf: The Golden Album ... Bitton's CD tribute to Edith Piaf is terrific!" Rave ... a listener. Piaf and Billie Holiday share a poignancy that ... interpreter of the music of Edith Piaf. For more information ...

Article: 'La Vie en Rose': Edith Piaf's ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  June 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of The Christian Science Monitor The great French singer Edith Piaf, who died at 47 in 1963, gets the biopic treatment in ... regrette rien"? Her fortitude had no room for regrets. Like Billie Holiday, to whom she is often compared, Piaf was a singer whose ...

Article: A LEGEND IN FULL; A biopic of Edith Piaf mines her ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Technicolor-vivid biography than legendary French songstress Edith Piaf. Her tumultuous life was melodrama of the highest order ... impresario who put her onstage, and like her contemporaries Billie Holiday and Judy Garland, her emotional instability and drug abuse ...

Article: Regrets? I have quite a few, actually ; Marion Cotillard is the ...
The Independent on Sunday;  June 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... hagiography, but Olivier Dahan's portrait of the great chanteuse Edith Piaf is more than the life of a saint; it's the story of a ... the tragic female artist: it's pointed out that she and Billie Holiday were born in the same year. Dahan gives the theme a defiantly ...

Article: Hooked on Edith Piaf
Washington Jewish Week;  April 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... those were her musicians. Bitton, meanwhile, has a new CD out, Paris Blues, with songs made famous by the likes of Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet and Portuguese fado singer Arnalia Rodrigues. This singer juggled her French and Jewish roots, ending ...

Transcript: France Says Vive Edith Piaf, One More Time
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);  March 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... NPR) 03-10-2007 France Says Vive Edith Piaf, One More Time Time 12:00-13:00 ... don't recognize that voice, it's Edith Piaf, the diminutive French singer whose ... packed to the rafters with lovers of Edith Piaf. They're singing along with Natalie ...