This November 10, Michel Drucker pays tribute to a singer very dear to the French, who died thirty-seven years ago. The opportunity to invite those who know best how to talk about it in Looking forward to Sunday.
This season, Michel Drucker has chosen to pay tribute to a deceased personality in Looking forward to Sundayonce a month. A meeting which will take place this Sunday, November 10 and which this time will be devoted to Dalida. The facilitator will receive Orlandothe singer’s brother and her producer, so that he can talk about his memories and anecdotes about the singer. Barbara Says will also be there. The one who represented France at Eurovision in 2021 has a special link with Dalida’s songs. This summer, she put together an entire show dedicated to the Italian artist. In Dalida, gypsy divaBarbara Pravi sang the singer’s repertoire alongside the Balkan quartet Aälma Dili at the Arles arenas on July 10. Barbara Pravi will surely also discuss her new album, La Pievaand his tour throughout France.
A career crowned with success and solitude for Dalida
Dalida disappeared thirty-seven years ago. Depressed, she committed suicide at the age of 54 after having offered the world, and in particular France, her adopted country, hits that span the ages. However, it was in cinema that Dalida – real name Iolanda Gigliotti – initially wanted to make a career. After studying theater in Cairo, where she grew up with her family, she played in a few films and left for Paris to try to break through. But, penniless and without contacts in the industry, she finally turns to singing. In 1956, after a competition organized by Bruno Coquatrix at the Olympia, she released her first EP and her first success, Bambino. From that moment on, her career took off and Dalida established herself over time in the minds and hearts of the French but also the rest of the world.
Where is Dalida resting?
Success and glory did not save Dalida from her inner demons and her immense pain. In one of his last songs, Die on stagewhich has become a cult, she sings this fatal call which grips her. It is one of the most covered songs in his repertoire. Thirty-seven years after her death, Dalida’s songs still resonate regularly on the radio and in concerts. Thousands of tourists also flock each year to see the artist’s house in Montmartre, and his tomb decorated with a large statue, in the same Parisian district.
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