A new biopic on the life of Edith Piaf will use artificial intelligence to allow the French star to narrate her own story, Warner Music and her estate said on Tuesday. "Edith" is "in the final phase ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re talking about great songs not sung in English. Dressed in a funereal black dress, small and frail as though ...

Understandably there is both widespread curiosity about the lives of well-known people, including the admirable and the less than admirable, and the desire among artists to produce something that ...

Edith Piaf (December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963) was one of France's most beloved singers, with much success shortly before and during World War II. Her music reflected her tragic life, with her ...

As Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival marks the centenary of the birth of Edith Piaf by hosting the acclaimed Piaf! The Show, starring Anne Carrère in the title role, BRIAN MORTON reflects on the ...

Edith Piaf is usually thought of as a gifted, tragic figure: a great voice and spirit who sang through lost loves, loneliness, drink and depression. But actress and singer Gay Marshall takes a ...

One of our men, who used to admire Edith Piaf, the tiny French singer, in Paris in 1939, was afraid that she might have brightened up her repertory for her engagement at the Playhouse here, on the ...

She has a Place named after her in Paris; a spacious, traffic-free triangle in the 20th arrondissement. Even Napoleon Bonaparte, France's most famous son, didn't merit that. There's a bronze statue, ...

She may not make headlines like Miley Cyrus, but famous French chanteuse Edith Piaf will reclaim the spotlight this week in New York. For the first time, French music festival “Les Francofolies” is ...

An old story about Edith Piaf got a new lease of life in October 2017, when a web site devoted to "positive and meaningful content" produced a short video recounting the iconic French singer's ...

Set in an apartment where Piaf lived at the age of 18, when she sang on the streets of Ménilmontant, this tiny museum consists of two red-painted rooms crammed with letters, pictures, framed discs and ...

Aznavour was close to Liza Minnelli with whom he toured and collaborated on a live album in 1995 (AFP/Getty) It would be difficult to place the master practitioners of the French chanson in order of ...