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Dalida

The daughter of Italian immigrants born in Cairo, Egypt, on January 17, 1933 and died in Paris on May 3, 1987, Iolanda Gigliotti aka Dalida's destiny was as extraordinary as it was tragic. Named Miss Egypt in 1954, she acted in a few films before arriving in Paris, where she met three men who were to shape her life: Olympia director Bruno Coquatrix, record company boss Eddie Barclay and Europe 1 radio station director Lucien Morrisse, whom she married in 1961. Thanks to a string of hits, the first of which was "Bambino ", Dalida became a star whose fame was not affected by the yé...