She is one of the greatest artists in our country. A monument of French song although the music of Edith Piaf still resonates. Proof of this is during the Paris Olympic Games this summer 2024. France wanted to make its greatest works heard by the whole world. While Celine Dion delivered an exceptional performance by taking over The hymn to love at the foot of the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony, Zaho de Sagazan intoned delicately Under the sky from Parisat the foot of the cauldron, during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The one we nicknamed The Kid was an outstanding voice and performer but there is a man to whom she owes a lot. It is about Charles Dumont. The latter has just passed away at his home at the age of 95 following a long illness. With the artist, he wrote no less than one forty songs. Among them: I don’t regret anything or even My God recorded in 1960.
Furthermore, in 1963, Charles Dumont composed the title for her I’m over you. Unfortunately, the singer dies suddenly at 47 and has no didn’t have time to record it. As a result, he decided to take it back in its place and integrated it, in 2007, into the show Piaf, I love you at the Olympia. “Without her, I would never have done everything I did, neither as a composer, nor as a singer” he humbly confided to AFP in 2015. However, the composer from Cahors did not, however, dedicate his entire life to Piaf. Other great artists trusted him.
Édith Piaf: Charles Dumont, his very successful career before and after La Môme
Sixty years of music. Charles Dumont’s career is impressive. In addition to Édith Piaf, other artists enjoyed collaborating with him such as Dalida, Luis Mariano or even Tino Rossi et Barbra Streisand. Indeed, with the American singer, he will compose, in particular, the hit I’ve Been Here. But the composer has such a passion for music that he too wants to get behind the microphone.
So, in the 1970s, he will compose his own songs very inspired by love and women. Its titles are entitled: A song (1976), Impossible loves (1978), You the married woman or even The Cigarette after love. “When you come back in front of an audiencewho comes to see you as he did 20, 30 or 40 years ago and gives you the same welcome, then he gives you back your 20 years” he declared.
Building on these successes, Charles Dumont take part in the tour Tender age and wooden heads in 2010 alongside Michèle Torr, Hervé Vilard and Sheila. His last appearance on stage? It was in 2019 at the Eiffel Tower theater for the release of his latest album Soul mate.
