Charles Dumont, singer, composer and pianist, to whom we owe the songs “Non, je ne regrette rien”, “Mon Dieu” and “Les Amants”, performed by Edith Piaf, is died at the age of 95, during the night from Sunday to Monday in Paris.
During his career, Charles Dumont performed numerous times in Côte-d'Or: in 1979 and 1981 in Dijon in particular. He also returned to the Burgundian city in 1998 at the invitation of the association Les Poètes de l'entreprises.
“The song is poetry! »
Fervently passionate about poetry, Charles Dumont had always encouraged poets to speak. This is how he was chosen to chairing the Burgundy Poetic Meetings in 2011 in Beaune, during which he also gave a concert.
On this occasion, he confided to the Public goodwith his phrasing, that “the song is poetry! Without poetry, it's a money box! Which does not prevent all forms of songs from having poetry. Essential sensitivity is needed for this very vulnerable heart… Without poetry, there is no love.”
The following year, in 2012, he was even named honorary president of the association of Poets of Friendship, in 2012, alongside Jean Ferrat and Maurice Carême.
More recently, in 2019, he gave a last concert in Beaune, following the invitation of the association L’Ivresse des beaux vers.
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