A dreamlike, impressionistic biography of the singer affectionately known as “The Little Sparrow,” “La Vie en Rose” flutters around the various stages of French national icon Edith Piaf’s eventful ...

A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World ...

Understandably there is both widespread curiosity about the lives of well-known people, including the admirable and the less than admirable, and the desire among artists to produce something that ...

The life and art of Edith Piaf. It wasn’t until the murder of her first legitimate champion, the impresario Louis LePlee (who christened her “La Piaf”), that she broke with her lowlife friends and ...

A distinguished British stage veteran, she won an Olivier award in London and a Tony in New York for her dramatic portrayal of the French singer Édith Piaf. By Richard Sandomir Zaho de Sagazan has ...