If Frida Kahlo were a French singer instead of a Mexican painter, her name might have been Édith Piaf. While Frida painted canvases, Édith painted the air with her songs. As it is with so many legendary artists, the all-consuming passion exuded by each of these women stemmed from lives full of suffering and pain (both were crippled in automobile accidents, and died when they were 47, coincident.
Translation - Love anyone and have it all torn away from you, over and over and over again.Watched this film tonight with my mom on our 10 ft screen. Wow! Nothing like being totally depressed while watching a film and NOT being able to just get up and leave.A great film that chronicles a completely hard and trying life. She seemed to embody that Japanese proverb "Fall down seven, get up eight...
Came up in a conversation a while back. But, if you had to sing an over-the-top song usually sung by the opposite gender, what would it be?What's your drag queen song?Mine's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Edith Piaf.
What is her matter?Well.. I guess she is a confuse girl.But she is such a determinated one...Yes... Well, there are things that she can't solve and those are the most reasonable in her life.Like what?She is always searching for herself.Yeah, I guess once she understood through the phylosophy of the general soap operas she was used on watch that a romance can help her.A romance?Yes....
If you have never heard the voice of Edith Piaf then I urge you to listen to perhaps "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" or "Milord" a couple of my favourites and big hits in her day. Sure it's old fashioned and dated in style but look past that and simply glory in Edith's voice. Talk about balls this lady had the original pair.I have lots of Edith Piaf music but until I get to transfer them to mp3s I c...
Entertainment Weekly has published a list of the Best Biopics ever and it includes a few movies about veteran artists.The highest that any ranked was number 16 for last year's biopic of Edith Piaf, La Vie En Rose. That was followed at 21 by Coal Miner's Daughter (Loretta Lynn) at 21, Ray (Ray Charles) at 22 and Walk the Line (Johnny Cash) at 25.Of course, if you really wanted to push the defin...
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