Céline Dion unveils the Olympic version of Edith Piaf’s Hymn to Love

October 10 marks the 61st anniversary of the death of French singer Édith Piaf. To mark the occasion, Céline Dion made available Thursday morning her magnificent interpretation of the song Hymn to loverecorded during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games in the summer of 2024.

The Quebec singer thus put an end to the suspense that she had created on Wednesday by publishing on her social networks a short extract of her performance at the Olympics, with the only message being the date of Thursday October 10, 2024, or 10.10.24.

While her version of Edith Piaf’s song hits broadcast platforms, Céline Dion immortalizes her triumphant return to the stage, after announcing to the whole world that she had been suffering from the rare stiff person syndrome for several years. It also pays homage to this monument of French song which was called the kid.

Édith Piaf died on October 10, 1963 at the age of 47 in Grasse, a town on the Côte d’Azur located north of Cannes. She died of a ruptured aneurysm due to liver failure, after years of suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, worn down by excess alcohol and morphine, to which she was dependent for several years after a car accident. .

With La vie en rose, Hymn to love is one of Edith Piaf’s greatest successes. The song, for which she wrote the lyrics to music by Marguerite Monnot, was released in 1950. The singer wrote it thinking of the boxer Marcel Cerdan, whom she met in New York in 1948 before buying with him a house in Boulogne-Billancourt, scene of the birth of global success.