Edith+Piaf's+Biography

Edith Giovanna Gassion was born in [|Paris], December 19, 1915. Her dad Luis Alfonso Gassion was an acrobat, and for celebrating Edith´s birth, he got drunk and left her mother Annetta Maillard, who was an ambulant singer. Because of their economic problems, the girl is left with her grandmother Aïcha Saïd Ben Mohammeden, who instead of giving Edith a baby bottle with milk, she fed her with wine, with the excuse wine killed all bacteria. One day her grandmother is tired of taking care of the little baby, that she decides giving the baby back to his dad that was going in short time to world war. Because of this situation Luis Alfonso lives the baby girl with her mother, in a house in Barney, Normandy were she is raised by the same prostitutes of the house. Édith reveals her talent when she starts singing popular songs along with her father. In March [|1937], Édith sing along in the [|music-hall] in ABC theater in Paris. She instantly becomes in a French star, adored by the public and starts to be diffused in the radio. In 1940 Piaf sings on the Bobino Le Bel Indiférent, along with the actor, [|Paul Meurisse]. Always together they act in the movie Montmartre-sur-Seine but in the same film Edith meets Henri Contet, which becomes in Edith[s favorite author. During world war, Edith changes her artistic name "La Môme Piaf", for the name “Edith Piaf". Although the Nazi occupation was happening Edith creates songs evoking the resistance and against violence. In one of her concerts in a bar she metes Ilona Hesse who helped jew prisioners scape, and that inspire her songs. In 1945, Edith Piaf creats her most famous song named La Vie en rose. In [|1948] while she is a traveling in a tour throughout New York, she meets the love of her life, a boxer called [|Marcel Cerdan] . He died the 28 of October 1949, in a plane accident. Because of this impact in her life, Edith turns addicted to morphine. In [|1952] she marries to the famous French singer [|Jacques Pills], but they divorced in [|1956] .In 1953, she initiates a dexontication of drug abuse because of their harming to her health and starts a new romance with [|Georges Moustaki]. By his side Edith suffered a gravious car accident in 1958 which harms her health much more and begins morphine abuse again. [|1959], Édith faints in a tour throughout New York and has to suffer many medical surgeries. The year of [|1961], Édith Piaf sings in many concerts and tours, the most memorable of her carrier. In October 9 of [|1962], at her 46 years she marries with [|Theo Sarapo] , Young Singer having 26 years. Finally in 1963 Edith records her last song [|L'Homme e Berlin]. October 10 [|1963], Édith Piaf dies in [|Plascassier] at her 47 years, because of her disease cirosis. Her last husband dies in a car accident in 1970, and is buried in the same tomb as the French singer.
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