Dedicating its September 2024 special edition to Charles Aznavour, Paris Match exhumes an old interview with the singer. An intimate interview in which he notably returned to his cosmetic surgery operation.
In this year 2024, he would have been 100 years old if he had still been among us. It has already been six years since Charles Aznavour left us. Like any artist of his caliber, his many hits span generations, forever becoming part of the French musical heritage. This summer, a certain Aya Nakamura dressed all in gold made her mark by covering the classic For Me Formidable at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, accompanied by the Republican Guard. In a few weeks, the Franco-Armenian singer will be entitled to his biopic (Mr. Aznavour) directed by Grand Corps Malade and his sidekick Mehdi Idir and carried by Tahar Rahim. In the meantime, Paris Match is taking advantage of this busy news to dedicate a special issue to it, published this Thursday, September 19, 2024.
Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf: “a loving friendship”
In this special issue, the weekly magazine notably pulls out of its drawers an interview that Charles Aznavour gave them in November 2000. A very intimate interview in which he discusses his parents, his childhood, his career of course, and his special relationship with Édith Piaf: this “love friendship”. “I wasn’t one of those ‘yes men’ who hung around her. One day, when we were getting ready to sing in Marseille, I upset her. She stopped me from traveling, telling me she would leave with someone else ‘who also had a nice butt’. There, she called me to tell me she missed me. If I stayed close to her for so long, even going so far as to live with her, it’s because I was never her lover.”he revealed.
“I owe my nose to Edith Piaf”explained Charles Aznavour
He then spoke of all the gratitude he had towards the one who had “brings into the great family of artists”Not to mention that Edith Piaf had several times put her hand in her pocket to help him in both his professional and personal choices, including for a rather surprising expense. “I owe her my nose. She paid for my plastic surgery. She offered me my first trip to the United States and is somewhat at the origin of my career there.”he explained. Before returning to this physical change: “With my voice and my jockey build, Aznavour the singer had trouble getting into the saddle. I was called ‘the hoarse one towards gold’. I had nothing to please. I ended up having my nose redone. On Piaf’s advice. And the artist concludes: “The face of my career has not changed.”.
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