Louiguy edith piaf biography

Louiguy

French musician (1916–1991)

"Louis Guglielmi" redirects here. For the American artist, see O. Louis Guglielmi.

Louiguy

Born(1916-04-03)3 April 1916
Barcelona, Spain
Died4 April 1991(1991-04-04) (aged 75)
Vence, France
OccupationComposer
InstrumentPiano

Musical artist

Louis Guglielmi (3 April 1916 – 4 April 1991), known by his pen nameLouiguy (French pronunciation:[lwi.ɡi]), was a Spanish-born French musician of Italian descent. He wrote the melody for Édith Piaf's lyrics of "La Vie en Rose" and the Latin jazz composition "Cerisier rose et pommier blanc", a popularsong written in 1950, made famous in English as "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)", which was recast as a resounding mambo hit for Pérez Prado.

Guglielmi was born in Barcelona. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris in the same class as Maurice Baquet, Henri Betti, Paul Bonneau and Henri Dutilleux. He created almost three dozen film scores, beginning in 1946 with La Rose de la mer and including Mourir d'aimer (1970; in English To Die

The song of the day for Saturday, November 2, 2024, is “La Vie En Rose.”

About Today

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Edith Piaf

Biography

French singer and cultural icon born December 19, 1915, in Paris, and died October 11, 1963, in Plascassier.

Best known for singing songs “[r=867885]”, composed by [a=Louiguy], with lyrics by Piaf, and English lyrics adapted by [a=Mack David]; and “[url=http://www.discogs.com/Edith-Piaf-Non-Je-Ne-Regrette-Rien/master/266272]Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien[/url]” written by [a=Michel Vaucaire], which rather fittingly she sung just two years before the end of her eventful life.

In 1935 Piaf was discovered in the Pigalle area of Paris by nightclub owner Louis Leplée, whose club Le Gerny off the Champs-Élysées was frequented by the upper and lower classes alike. He persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness, which, combined with her height of only 142 centimetres (4 ft 8 in), inspired him to give her the nickname that would stay with her for the rest of her life and serve as her stage name, La Môme Piaf (Parigot translatable as “The Waif Sparrow”, “The Little Sparrow”, or “Kid Sparrow”). Leplée ta

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