Le musician Charles Dumontcomposer of the legendary I regret nothing, d’Édith Piafis deceasedon the night of Sunday, November 17 to Monday, November 18, 2024, at Parisannounced his companion Florence to theAFP. He was 95 years old.
This singer-singer-songwriter, who had also collaborated with Barbra Streisanddied of a long illness illness at home.
The career of this trained trumpeter had taken a major turn at the turn of the 1960s when he convinced the star Édith Piaf to perform one of her compositions, after several refusals.
No, I have no regrets has since become an unforgettable standard of La Mômeknown the world over.
Linked destinies
“Ma mère m’a mis au monde mais Édith Piaf m’a mis dans le monde” (My mother brought me into the world, but Edith Piaf brought me into the world), said the singer and songwriter. pianist born in Cahors March 26, 1929. “Without her, I would never have done everything I’ve done, either as a composer or as a singer,” he assured AFP in a 2015 interview.
For Charles Dumont, this meeting marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with Piaf, which would give rise to over thirty songs, including Mon dieu or The flonflons of the ball.
A successful career
Throughout his sixty-year career, Charles Dumont also collaborated with Dalida or Tino Rossi and had become a “crooner” by the end of the 1960s, abandoning his songs protest songs.
He then went on to release a series of albums in which love took the lion’s share… The album Une femme won her the Prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros in 1973.
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His last appearance on stage was in 2019 at the théâtre de la Eiffel Tower. “When you come back to a publicwho come to see you as they came 20, 30 or 40 years ago and give you the same welcome, so they give you back your 20 years,” he said.