MANILA, Philippines - Compared to many other world-famous artists today, the story of the legendary chanteuse from Paris remains speculative. Her life may have been tabloid fodder back during her ...

Edith Piaf, dead now for nearly 50 years, has become one of France’s great national monuments, as lucratively exportable a product as Maurice Chevalier, Claude Monet and Crépes Suzettes. Everyone here ...

Edith Piaf - No regrets: Legacy of a French songbird LIKE many stars, Edith Piaf, born Edith Gassion in 1915, accumulated a lot of myths around her life even as she made musical magic, and they ...

Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely ...

The baptismal certificate of French singer Edith Piaf is displayed during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of her death, on October 10, 2013, at the Saint- Jean-Baptiste de Belleville ...