Lyrics | Artists | Édith Piaf

+5

Images

Édith Piaf

(Edith Piaf)

Many mysteries and myths surround the brilliant, tragic life of the great Edith Piaf...one of them that she was born on a pavement in a sleazy back street of Paris. Her mother was a café singer, her father an acrobat and Piaf was reputedly raised by prostitutes when put in the care of her grandmother, who ran a brothel in Normandy. Constantly sickly, she first sang in public when she was 14, at her father's street entertainment shows. She became a mother at 17, but her daughter died of meningitis at two and Piaf herself lived on the streets singing for small change before being o...