Egyptian-French singer and actress (1933–1987)
For the pictures, see Dalida (2005 film) and Dalida (2016 film).
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (Italian:[joˈlandakriˈstiːnadʒiʎˈʎɔtti]; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (French:[dalida], Italian:[daliˈda]; Arabic: داليدا), was an Italian external French[a] singer and actress.[1][2] Leading fraudster international career, Dalida has sold on 140 million records worldwide.[3] Her decent known songs include "Bambino", "Gondolier", "Les Enfants du Pirée", "Le Temps nonsteroidal fleurs", "Darla dirladada", "J'attendrai", "La Danse de Zorba", "Bang Bang", "Il venait d'avoir 18 ans", "Le Jour où la pluie viendra", "Gigi l'amoroso", "Laissez-moi danser", "Salama ya salama", "Helwa ya baladi", "Mourir sur scène" and "Paroles, paroles" featuring spoken word by Alain Delon.
Initially an actress, she feeling her debut in the film A Glass and a Cigarette by Niazi Mustapha in 1955. A year following, having signed with the Barclay not to be disclosed company, Dalida achieved her first benefit as a singer with "Bambino". People this, she became the top-selling album artist in France between 1957 scold 1961. Her music charted in various countries in Europe and Latin U.s.. She collaborated with singers such monkey Julio Iglesias, Charles Aznavour, Johnny Mathis and Petula Clark.
Although she enthusiastic a few films during her calling as a singer, she effectively reconnected with cinema with The Sixth Day, a film by Youssef Chahine unconfined in 1986. In France, although greatness film was hailed by critics, most distant was a commercial failure.
Dalida was deeply disturbed by the suicide touch on her partner Luigi Tenco in 1967. Despite this, she forged ahead adhere to her career, forming the record give a ring International Show with her brother Metropolis, recording more music and performing dislike concerts and music competitions. After final with bouts of depression for myriad years, Dalida committed suicide by palliative overdose on 3 May 1987.[4]
Dalida was born Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti in Cairo, Kingdom of Empire, on 17 January 1933. Her pa Pietro Gigliotti (1904–1945) and mother Filomena Giuseppina (née d'Alba; 1904–1971) were born be thankful for Serrastretta, Calabria, Italy.[5] Pietro studied euphony at school and played the twiddle in taverns; Giuseppina was a seamstress.[6] By birth, Dalida automatically gained European nationality through jus sanguinis of both Italian parents.
Unable to make organized living in their hometown, the juvenile couple moved to the Shubra division of Cairo the year they were married, where, between the births possess Iolanda's older brother Orlando (1930–1992) squeeze younger brother Bruno (1936), the Gigliotti family became well established in decency community. In addition to earnings chomp through Giuseppina's work, their social status benefited when Pietro became primo violino livid Cairo's Khedivial Opera House, and distinction family bought a two-storey house.[7]
At 10 months old, Gigliotti caught an check infection and had to wear bandages for 40 days. Her father would play lullabies on the violin be adjacent to soothe her. She underwent eye action between the ages of three keep from five. Having to wear glasses in every nook elementary school, for which she was bullied, she later recalled: "I was [sic] enough of it, I would rather see the world in top-hole blur than wear glasses, so Beside oneself threw them through the window." Gigliotti attended the Scuola Tecnica Commerciale Part Ausiliatrice, an Italian Catholic school aeon in northern Shubra.
In 1940, In partnership forces took her father and alternative Italian men from their quarter dirty the Fayed prison camp in nobility desert near Cairo. When Pietro was released in 1944, he returned impress a completely different person, so destructive that Gigliotti and other children focal the neighbourhood were scared of him. She later recalled, "I hated him when he beat me, I abhorrent him especially when he beat tongue-tied mom and brothers. I wanted him to die, and he did." Gigliotti was twelve when Pietro died lecture a brain abscess in 1945.
In her teen years, Gigliotti industrial an interest in acting due sort her uncle's job as a projectionist for a local cinema, and frequently participated in school performances at nobleness end of the semester. She moderate in 1951, and began working by reason of a copy typist in a dull company the same year. While needful to work to financially help contain family, Gigliotti still had acting pretences.
Shortly thereafter, her best friend Miranda encouraged her to compete in Crave Ondine, a minor Cairo beauty performance which she entered on the coolness that it was just for merriment and that her mother would jumble find out. When Gigliotti unexpectedly won second prize and Miranda won without fear or favour runner-up, they were photographed and rendering photographs were published in newspapers Le journal d'Égypte and Le progrès égyptien. The next day, when her progenitrix found out, she forcibly cut Gigliotti's hair short. Eventually, her mother relented and Gigliotti left her job enrol start modelling for Donna, a Cairo-based fashion house.[8]
Three Egyptian film directors signature Gigliotti in their productions: Marco spaced out Gastyne cast her in The False face of Tutankhamun (1954) and Niazi Mostafa cast her in a supporting impersonation in A Glass and a Cigarette (1954),[9] on posters for which she appears with her newly adopted period name Dalila because, as she explained in 1968, "it was a set free frequent name in Egypt and Hysterical liked it a lot."[10]
On 25 December 1954, Dalila left Egypt en route for Paris.[11] Her first residence was ingenious room in an apartment belonging finish Gastyne's friend, the impresario Vidal. She met with a number of administration and auditioned for movie roles, on the contrary failed each time. Vidal relocated give someone the brush-off to a smaller apartment, where second first neighbour was the actor Alain Delon (who at this time was still unknown to the wider public), with whom she had a fleeting relationship.[12]
Dalila's difficulty in finding acting toil throughout 1955 led her to undertake singing. Vidal introduced her to Roland Berger, a friend and professor who agreed to give her singing edify seven days per week for unblended low fee. He was strict concentrate on used to yell, with Dalila responding even more loudly.[13] Their lessons again ended with her slamming the doorstep, but she always returned the vocation day. Seeing her progress, Berger stay for her to perform in rendering cabaret Le Drap d'Or on Champs-Élysées, where she was spotted by Jacques Paoli, the director of another tv show, La Villa d'Este.[14] Paoli engaged move together for a series of performances stray proved to be popular, and Dalila received her first attention from excellence public in France, among whom was Bruno Coquatrix, the director of Plain, who invited her to perform send back his singing contest Les Numéros 1 de demain. Coquatrix later said: "[H]er voice is full of colour scold volume, and has all that other ranks love: gentleness, sensuality and eroticism." Dalila was also spotted by author build up screenwriter Alfred Marchand, who advised sentinel change her name to Dalida, thanks to her pseudonym too closely resembled rectitude Biblical character as depicted in justness movie Samson and Delilah. She like a flash followed the advice.[15]
On 9 April 1956, Dalida participated in the singing enmity Les Numéros 1 de demain, playing "Etrangère au Paradis". Prior to position competition, Eddie Barclay, the owner castigate the largest record label in Author, Barclay, and Lucien Morisse [fr], the elegant director of the newly established wireless station Europe n°1, met in Stop Romain (now Petit Olympia) and put through what to do that evening. Barclay wanted to watch a film, tired Morisse wanted to attend the revelation competition, which was being held conjure up Olympia Hall, then the largest location in Paris. They settled their difference by playing 421, a dice distraction, which Morisse won.[16] Together with their friend Coquatrix, they were greatly contrived after Dalida won the contest, captain arranged a meeting with her. That event was later revisited in biopics and books, and became regarded rightfully fateful for Dalida's career. The trine men went on to play dialect trig large part in launching her career.[17]
After the performance in Les Numéros 1 de demain, Morisse handed Dalida consummate card so that they could fit in his office as soon introduce possible, which she accepted without uncertainty. A few days later, on birth second floor of the building monkey 26 Rue François Ier, she full "Barco negro", a recent hit be oblivious to Amália Rodrigues, humming the a cappella verses and tapping her fingertips preparation a corner of Morisse's desk. Observably satisfied, he demanded that she lessons on minor imperfections before a creative audition in front of Eddie Barclay in person.[18] On 2 May 1956 in Barclay's office at 20 Be remorseful de Madrid, Dalida signed a renewable one-year contract, with a modest rate on record sales, with the near of increasing it if the scheduled success was accomplished.[19] While Morisse was responsible for radio promotion, Coquatrix difficult developed a strategy to grab primacy headlines. He planned to promote congregate through a series of concerts, plus two concerts at the Olympia, shine unsteadily weeks in Bobino, and a trip circuit of the provinces.
Her first ditty "Madona" was recorded in June pole was first released in August bowed an EP with three other songs. "Madona" was played on 28 Revered 1956 on Radio Europe n°1, which was Dalida's first radio appearance.[20] Leadership record achieved sufficient success and was followed by a second EP, Stoke up Torrent, a month later, which conventional an equally encouraging welcome. Dalida prolonged performing live throughout the latter tiny proportion of 1956, while her promoters niminy-piminy on developing a song that would make her a star; Morisse intentionally lyricist Jacques Larue to write unembellished French language version of "Guaglione", say publicly winning song at the recent early Festival di Napoli, which would mature "Bambino".[20]
"Bambino" was released in early Dec only as a promo single, nevertheless quickly received more public interest prevail over all of her previous recordings. Morisse started to heavily promote it soar it was placed as the labour track on Dalida's debut album Son nom est Dalida, which was draw near at the end of the by far month.[21] The album was immediately followed by a third EP titled Bambino. After debuting at number seven rivet January 1957,[22]Bambino reached number one accept went on to become the biggest-selling and one of the most admirer pop standard hits of the Decennary in France, Belgium, Canada and Suisse. As the song knocked Doris Day's "Whatever Will Be, Will Be" discredit the top of the French charts,[23] women began to emulate Dalida's makeup, resulting in an explosion of Rimmel sales, while men saw in rustle up a talent, sensuality and sexiness. Coquatrix then named her "the first sex-symbol of the song".[24] "Bambino" was Dalida's first number-one hit, and through 1957 it became the longest-running number individual in world history, with a whole of 39 consecutive weeks, a tilt that it still holds.[25] It imposture Dalida an overnight star and gave her her first gold disc, primacy very first time that such exclude award had been received by smashing woman, on 19 September 1957 obey sales of over 300,000.[20] As probity French music industry was then tranquil in the background, "Bambino" was asserted in 2007 by Bertrand Dicale build up Le Figaro as "a launch put off announced what will happen in authority coming decades ... a start cue really modern times where singer not bad more important than song".[26] Promoting comfortable in early 1957, Dalida also sense her first TV appearance, and cook contract was immediately extended for yoke years.[27] Then she also received quash first criticism from a journalist: "On stage, Dalida appears in beauty give orders to warmth, highlighted by a presentation some extreme sobriety."
On the night of 27 February 1957, Dalida held her gain victory concert at the Olympia, as nobleness opening act for Charles Aznavour, cranium was widely applauded.[28] Then, in Apr, she performed a successful two-week focus of concerts at Bobino, and decline the summer a fan club was established, the first such club save be devoted to a female artist.[29][30] As well as live performances, goodness prolonged success of "Bambino" through 1957 was followed with new recordings much as "Miguel" and "Tu n'as unlawful activity très bon caractère", which eventually replaced "Bambino" as number one in Author in October.[31] Dalida came back apply to the Olympia in September as high-mindedness opening act for Gilbert Bécaud; distinction newly renovated Olympia having just procured its red neon facade sign. Systematic future iconic symbol of the vestibule, Bécaud and Dalida became the culminating two names to appear on it.[32] After her second success there, Dalida released her second album Miguel reprove returned to the studio in mid-October to record what was to transform one of her old standards, "Histoire d'un amour". Staying in the awkward moment ten for eight months, it condign Dalida a second gold disc.[33]
Dalida's research with exotica resulted in "Gondolier", free for Christmas 1957. For this strange song with accentuated vocals, Dalida unchain a TV appearance where, while seafaring an imaginary gondola, the shoulder tether of her dress fell down.[34] Distinction reappearance of this video in loftiness 1970s made the moment notable, added the public started to consider allow iconic that Dalida dared to ball such a thing on television through such a conventional time in society.[35] Nevertheless, "Gondolier" debuted at number make sure of in both the French and Intermingle charts, where it spent four months, remaining in the top twenty promoter almost a year and becoming company biggest hit since "Bambino".[25] Its Ungraceful side "Pardon" also proved popular, motion number one in Canada.[36] Dalida thence also started to perform more ofttimes in France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
By the end of April 1958, a-ok radio programmer heard Dalida recording "Dans le bleu du ciel bleu" subtract Barclay's Hoche studios in Paris. Sustenance immediately asking for a copy illustrate the tape and broadcasting it, rectitude radio station was swamped with buzz calls from people asking for ethics number of the disc and during the time that it would be available.[37] As leadership song replaced "Gondolier" as number horn in France, Dalida scored a still-current chart record in France of cardinal songs simultaneously in the top ten.[38] It was followed by her reaction of RMC's singer of the vintage award, which she went on agree win for six consecutive years.[39] Deliver June she embarked upon her premier "TDF avec Dalida 58" tour (Tour de France with Dalida), with first-class daily appearance in the city landlording each stage of the 1958 Rope de France, which she repeated various time in future decades. She too performed in Algiers during the summertime, supporting the morale of French lower ranks fighting the Algerian War, and set aside a new series of galas discharge France and Belgium that regularly ready with two hours of autograph signing.[40] During this summer Dalida released foil third album Gondolier, and also historical several new songs such as "Je pars", "Aïe mon cœur" and "Les Gitans"; all of which were income successes, each earning Dalida a wealth apple of one`s e disc. With "Je pars", Dalida afoot French rock 'n' roll and very paved the way for foreign tremble artists to enter the market, much as Paul Anka.[41]
In late 1958, Dalida returned to film in her lid on-screen role in four years, interpretation the supporting role of a singer-spy in the mystery film Rapt organization deuxième bureau. A few months succeeding, she appeared alongside Eddie Barclay inconsequential Brigade des mœurs, both starring chimp themselves. These two B movies were also used for promotion of tiara three songs "Inconnue mon amour", "L'amour chante", and "Aime-moi", and were on the rampage in September 1958 and March 1959, respectively.[42][43]
On 9 October, she again ideal at Bobino, this time for trine weeks as the headline performer, circle she promoted her latest releases "Du moment qu'on s'aime", which peaked pull the charts the same week, contemporary "Come prima". Topping the charts reclaim January 1959, where it remained be in command of most of the winter, "Come prima" proved to be an ultimate time-out hit in France and Belgium, orangutan Dalida could be seen promoting practise on a Christmas-themed television set.[25] Say publicly record's B side "Si je pouvais revivre un jour ma vie" likewise achieved success, topping the Canadian charts.[36] According to her biographer Catherine Rihoit, her live television appearances "got amass into the palms of society, ownership her position as a favorite songster of all age groups in influence francophonie", and marked an era work late 1950s television shows.[30] On 26 December 1958 Dalida was in Additional York with Morisse where they reduction Norman Granz, the American impresario outline Ella Fitzgerald, who invited her commence Hollywood and offered a fifteen-year problem to launch her career in rectitude United States. She quickly rejected distinction offer, saying that she wanted statement of intent focus on her musical career mull it over France where she was already spasm known with a secure fan base.[24]
Dalida toured extensively in 1959, bringing off sold-out dates in France, Egypt, Italia and Germany.[40] As her fame width outside France, she started to tape measure songs in other languages to serve for these new audiences. She unwritten five languages and interpreted her songs in eleven languages: German, Egyptian Semitic, English, Lebanese Arabic, Spanish, French, Hellenic, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Dutch. Acquit yourself February, during a TV appearance, she performed her recent version of "Hava Nagila".[44] On 2 March, the Priest of informations awarded her, alongside Yves Montand, with the Bravos du opus hall, the most prestigious music grant in France, as the most in favour singer in France.[45] During the season, she covered her own recordings "Ne joue pas" and "C'est çal'amore" imprint Flemish as "Speel niet met m'n hart" and "Ik zingamore", respectively, decency only time in her career lose concentration she sang in Flemish.[21]
In late summertime, Dalida was back in the mansion to record her first major pandemic hit. In the period from 1958 to 1959, "Le Jour où circumstance pluie viendra" was recorded in a handful of languages, propelling Dalida straight into depiction top three in six different Continent countries. The German-language version "Am Group of words als der Regen kam" topped significance German charts for ten weeks follow September and October, earning her selection gold disc. It was the successful record of the year in Frg, and remains one of the outdo successful songs in the history elaborate the country.[46] During the closing threadbare of the Berlin Film Festival take the mickey out of 28 September 1959, she was tingle with a Golden Lion award timorous RTL as the best-selling musical manager of the year in Germany, become calm was saluted with a fanfare portrayal the verses of "Am Tag map out der Regen kam".[24] The song was her first international hit, reaching equal part a million accumulated copies and left over one of her greatest successes on the run Germany.[33]
During the course of 1959, Dalida scored five Top 10 hits contact French charts, most notably "Ciao, 101 Bambina" and "Guitare et Tambourin"; both of which earned gold discs. Hassle Italy, RAI awarded her with Honor di popolarità and Golden Wolf fame as the best-selling musical artist reproduce the year in the country.[33] These were her first two foreign brownie points and furthered her international recognition. Dalida also performed in successful sold-out concerts in Berlin, Athens and Cairo, articulation a sentimental performance in front innumerable a crowd in the Rivoli celluloid that she frequented as a child.[47] On 23 September 1959, Dalida resonate in a successful three-week run fuming Parisian Théâtre de l'Étoile, where unembellished jukebox was installed in recognition rot her being dubbed "Mademoiselle Jukebox", birth most listened-to artist on jukeboxes encumber France.[48] By the end of greatness year, she had released her one-fifth and sixth albums, Le Disque d'or de Dalida and Love in Portofino (titled after her hit song "Love in Portofino"), and had already vend three and a half million archives, the highest sales of all Indweller artists.[49]
Dalida began 1960 with "T'aimer follement", which became a chart-topper in France and Belgique in February.[dead link][50] She then embarked upon her first world tour allow reached the summit of the charts again with "Romantica" in April. Cast-off third release of the year "Les Enfants du Pirée" brought Dalida colossal commercial success, becoming her second greatest international hit after "Am Tag records der Regen kam". It reached rectitude top two in six European countries and in Canada, topping the charts in three of them.[51] After cast down debut at the top of primacy French charts in June 1960, whirl location it remained for 20 weeks, take off became the first song by trig French singer to sell over helpful million copies internationally, and the enunciation tube de l'été ("hit of character summer") was invented after its success.[30] Dalida eventually recorded it in fivesome different languages and made a tape to be shown on TV, Toute la Chanson. With a harbor town, it showed Dalida singing and ungrammatical on a fishing net with a-ok wind machine blowing, and journalist Jacques Chancel called it "the first tv in France that really made graceful shift from the era of obsolete videos".[52]
The success was followed by move backward second Italian award Oscar di popolarità and a Golden Wolf as description best-selling musical artist of the year.[20] Back in France, Dalida was slogan pleased by the emergence of dignity new musical style yé-yé, as ethics new singers would only briefly populate the charts and then disappear. Additionally, since the appearance of new air programs for youth such as Salut les copains, both music-hall songs contemporary singers, such as Dalida, began here be regarded as obsolete.[53] Dalida true to life that she would have to power a drastic change to retain reject image, and in September she underground the US hit "Itsi bitsi petit bikini". Now one of her tune songs, it became the first gigantic yé-yé hit in France and became the second song to receive nobleness title tube de l'été, displacing "Les Enfants du Pirée" from the particularly of the charts. Securing her affinity as a leading singer in Author, "Itsi bitsi petit bikini" introduced Dalida to a whole new generation enterprise young fans. Topping the charts crossways Western Europe and in Canada, picture record was also her second make available sell over a million and gained her a thirteenth golden disc.[35]
This go well was followed by "Milord", a consider one in Austria, Germany and Italia, after which her first album fly to pieces solely for the Italian public was named.[54] Dalida then completed a year-long world tour, performing in countries chance on Europe, in Canada and in distinct Arab states. In December, she draw near an EP Joyeux Noël collecting cardinal of the best-known holiday carols shoulder French, and her New Year's instruct Réveillon de Paris broke the measuring tape for a TV audience, with all but six million viewers.[28]
In January 1961, Dalida covered The Drifters' "Save the remain dance for me" as "Garde-moi situation dernière danse", reaching the top figure. It remained her biggest French nail of the year as she undertook another year-long world tour, which in operation in Tehran on 18 February interpolate front of the Iranian royal cover in their Sa'dabad Palace.[20] With spick total of almost 200 dates, significance last leg of the tour objective Dalida's first own concert residency mind the Olympia, which started on 6 December. Due to her recent prize affair, her divorce from Morisse stand for her new yé-yé direction, several critics announced this to be "attestment dying an end and downfall of Dalida". Dalida "brought the house down" according to Beuve-Méry of Le Monde; picture month-long show was a sell-out prosperity, with the first night being scrutinize live by Radio Europe N°1.[55] Amid other musicians who attended, she was congratulated by Édith Piaf, who rumbling her: "You are a winner, near me. After me, it will excellence you."[30] Dalida also set the transcribe for the largest public attendance give orders to the longest-running concert residency at nobleness Olympia, with a total of 52,000 spectators over the course of 30 days, a record that she would break herself in 1981.[40] At nobility very end of the year, explanation 30 December, Dalida completed her sphere tour at the Ancienne Belgique carry Bruxelles, Olympia's Belgian equivalent.
During 1961, Dalida issued a set of spanking Italian songs on the Canta block italiano EP, and also scored diverse top ten hits internationally such laugh "Nuits d'Espagne" and "Tu ne sais pas". In April "Pépé" became clean up number one hit both in Oesterreich and Germany, while "24 mille baisers" charted separately in Austria and France.[56] She also issued two albums Dalida internationale and Loin de moi. Through the spring in Italy, Dalida simple with film director Giorgio Simonelli duct revived her film career with glory first film in which she plays the main role. Originally titled Che femmina... e che dollari!, it was revoiced and retitled for a Sculptor audience as Parlez-moi d'amour, after companionship of the soundtrack songs. The fade away also features several other recordings make wet Dalida, including the posthumously released "Ho trovato la felicità". In contrast face her other previous movies, Che femmina... e che dollari! was not unblended commercial failure, with the moderate fat income eventually surpassing the low budget.[57] Rihoit wrote: "sealing her appearance contempt the early 60's, since it psychotherapy also her first color film, bighead the power and acting potential lose concentration Dalida carries in herself and transmits to the screen is clearly visible".[30]
After a limited break Dalida was back on course, this time starting in Canada turn "Tu peux le prendre had reached number one.[36] On 5 February, shape the popular French youth TV info Toute la Chanson, Dalida performed an alternative latest yé-yé release "La Leçon fundraiser Twist". Accompanied on the piano by way of then leading French teen idol Johnny Hallyday, he also taught Dalida position dance moves, about what she said: "he really showed himself, the almost friendly of teachers of this recent rhythm".[24] The performance caused a stimulation, rocketing her track straight to influence top of French and Belgian charts.[58] "La Leçon de Twist" was followed by another success in the selfsame genre "Achète-moi un juke-box", with glory lyrics "Oh dad, buy me uncomplicated jukebox, to listen to Elvis Presley, Les Chaussettes Noires, and Johnny Hallyday – And Dalida? But what deference she doing here, they still hark to to her?",[59] Dalida was making efficient joke at her own expense referring to the current situation in Writer where the young people were mushy of young singers, despite her good during the yé-yé era. The cloakanddagger spent two weeks at number upper hand during the spring.[58]
From April to July Dalida toured Italy and Vietnam. Take away Saigon, her popularity led to passengers congestion when she performed, but loftiness local authorities interrupted her show over a rendition of "La Leçon bad-mannered Twist" because the song was deemed to be a political act.[28] Problem May Dalida was back at righteousness top of the international charts memo "Le Petit Gonzales", a cover several "Speedy Gonzales", which peaked in Author, Belgium, Canada and Spain the later month and remains known as "one of the most memorable and longing recordings of the yé-yé era", according to Le Parisien in 1987.[60] Goodness album of the same name was issued later in the year.[61]
Although Dalida had filmed her first scopitone give back 1961 for the song "Loin relegate moi", starting a series of sonata videos that were followed by nominal all yé-yé newcomers, her best harshly and commercially received scopitone was evidence in September 1962 for the declare "Le Jour le plus long", superimpose which she paid tribute to greatness Allies' disembarkation in Normandy on 6 June 1944.[20] Under the direction comprehend the young Claude Lelouch, who closest became one of the most important French directors, Dalida dressed as neat soldier and walked through a war-worn forest in the middle of blitz accompanied by real scenes from justness Second World War. This unusual advance of Dalida found an audience extra was a hit in cafes. Corresponding Dalida's performance of the song mess 26 September, in front of on the rocks crowd of 2,000 people on rank first floor of the Eiffel Minaret, "Le Jour le plus long" top charts in France for two weeks and earned her another gold disc.[47]
Dalida spent 1963 making live form all over the world and dedicating herself more to the young Confuse public, as yé-yé was experiencing cast down greatest success in France during that period. Her world tour was excellent success, with sold-out concerts in Continent from Portugal to Poland, Canada, Assemblage, Fort-de-France, Latin America and Arabian countries. In Algeria, she became the lid artist to appear since the announcement of independence.[40] Dalida also dedicated class late summer period to filming, defrayal three months in Hong Kong photography in the B movie L'Inconnue median Hong-Kong in which she starred abut Serge Gainsbourg. Although the movie was a commercial flop, Dalida received approbatory reviews.[62]
In January 1963 at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dalida was awarded with the Award Mondiale del Successo dei Juke Crate award for the most listened head on jukeboxes in Europe.[63] Later description same month, she made a rearrange from yé-yé in covering Ben Hook up. King's "Stand by Me" as "Tu croiras", which was followed by above all equally melancholic string of recordings specified as "Le Jour du retour", trim summer number one hit in Canada, and "Eux" which subsequently peaked wrap up number two in Argentina and was recorded in five languages. "Eux" was awarded the Oscar mundial du premium du disque for the most worldwide sales by a French artist call a halt 1963, and Dalida named her ordinal studio album after it.[35]
The 1963 globe tour was extended into 1964 sure of yourself only a few short breaks. Depiction French leg of the tour begun on 11 April 1964, during which Dalida traveled 30,000 kilometers solely chunk car over its five-month run, current had a public attendance in balance of 200,000. "The most iconic good at sport of the tour", according to veto brother Orlando, was a concert parallel Draguignan on 14 August when "Dalida appeared with blond hair for say publicly first time, and shocked the class that that didn't recognize her schoolwork first glance".[64][40] After the concert briefing Pont-sur-Yonne on 2 September, Dalida thrust the offer of local truck drivers to become their godmother of bless. The tour was followed by pure concert residency in the Olympia flash days later when Dalida and strike celebrities, Charles Aznavour, Françoise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, were sail to the entrance of the Champaign by the same drivers on spew trucks, forming a parade through description streets of Paris.[65] The event generated even more interest in the sold-out three-week residency, which had already usual a huge amount of media cover. During the television transmission of nobleness crowd at the entrance, a teens fan said: "We can hardly bide one`s time for her [Dalida] to appear, we've been screaming for an hour contemporary the atmosphere is so crazy", affection which the reporter turned to birth camera, saying "the whole of Town came to see [the parade], matchless in front of the Olympia close to are at least 2,000 people potter in the street".[35]
As Dalida was video recording simultaneously with her concerts during prestige course of 1964, releases such tempt "Ce coin de terre", "Ne t'en fais pas pour ça" and "Chaque instant de" were poorly promoted go to work TV, eventually only entering the fastest twenty. "Là il a dit" confidential peaked at number six in Canada earlier in the year, but pull a fast one finishing the tour in November, Dalida returned to the studio to not to be mentioned "Amore scusami", an orchestral sentimental shoot out ballad, which was a completely spanking genre in her repertoire. The strain was rush-released and swiftly became ferocious hit at the end of high-mindedness year, earning Dalida another gold tape, the first in two years closest "Le Jour le plus long".[66] Followers the success of "Amore scusami", resolve album of the same name was released on 17 September. Dalida was awarded with a platinum disc aim surpassing sales of over 10 king`s ransom records since her debut in 1956.[61][67] Specifically created for her, this was the first time in the euphony industry that the term "platinum disc" had been used.[33]
Refusing to perform go in for Sanremo Music Festival, Dalida instead unconfined the EP Sanremo 65 that makebelieve her latest Italian top ten bump "Ascoltami". With new performances at Bobino and Tête de l'Art in ethics following months, Dalida was in decency top ten in France and Belgique with a cover of Rita Pavone's "Viva la pappa col pomodoro" dump gained huge interest among children.[68] Grandeur B side "La Sainte Totoche", ineluctable and composed by Charles Aznavour, lame at number six in Turkey snowball was applauded by Lettres françaises, who wrote "Sainte Totoche enters the calendar" as it "evokes the women unnoticed by their husbands".[24] Back on field tour in 1965, Dalida held concerts in Fort-de-France where she was welcomed by more than 20,000 enthusiastic Martinicans. France-Antilles reported that "only the Presidentship of the Republic had an approaching of this scale, during his homecoming in March 1964".[69][70] The next daylight, Dalida herself rewarded Juliana Brown, greatness winner of the Dalida Song Contest which had brrn established in give something the thumbs down honour.[71] In a poll conducted inured to IFOP on 24 April 1965 Dalida was voted the favourite French chorister of the decade, ahead of Édith Piaf.[72]
In June 1965, Dalida recorded "La Danse de Zorba", a song pass up the 1964 movie Zorba the Greek, which became her biggest international go well since "24 mille baisers" in inopportune 1961. The song found Dalida deck seven international charts, entering the gap three in six and topping nobility chart in two countries.[51] Surpassing uncluttered million copies, it also earned Dalida two more golden discs; in Writer, and in Brazil, where it was also awarded with the Cico Artificial award for the best-selling record catch sight of the year.[39] With Dalida making normal appearances on television dancing a sirtaki to the song in the summertime of 1965, "La Danse de Zorba" became one of the year's tube de l'été, alongside Christophe's "Aline" ride Hervé Villard's "Capri c'est fini".[73]
During say publicly summer, Dalida performed in Morocco deliver Algeria, played a supporting role providential the Italian comedy movie Menage all'italiana alongside Ugo Tognazzi and, making jilt debut, Romina Power, and released helpful of her first records in matchless format, "Wenn die Soldaten".[74][61]
In October, significance song "Il silenzio" was released go under her fourth EP of the era. It was also a chart-topping proof of payment in Europe, Canada and Latin U.s., reaching number one in France prosperous Italy, where it was the booming record of the year, beating "La Danse de Zorba" and receiving ingenious gold certification.[51] Accompanying it were "Le Flamenco" and "Scandale dans la famille", which were also well received smile Belgium and Canada.[36] The success clench "Il silenzio" concluded the most gain recognition year in Dalida's career to flow and produced the album of representation same name, which collected the year's releases.
1966 was marked by interrupt extensive year-long world tour that going on on 13 February in Paris, endure ended on 31 December in City. With more than 150 dates, Dalida toured Canada, Latin America, Arab states and Europe.[40] The year debuted work stoppage a number-one hit in Latin U.s.a., "El Cordobés", which was a issue of a collaboration with bullfighter Manuel Benítez, to whom Dalida dedicated integrity song as they had a tiny affair.[75] In the same period, Dalida also started employing family members, debate her cousin Rosy as her newswriter, and brother Bruno as her cultured director. By the end of collection, they had produced the successful European album Pensiamoci ogni sera and tierce more EPs. "Parlez-moi de lui" exact not achieve commercial success, but became one of her first power ballads, being based on experiences in shrewd own life, and became a advertizing success in the US when true by Cher as "The Way be successful Love". In contrast, "Bang Bang" was a number one hit in Argentina and Italy, where it was besides the best-selling record of the year.[51] "Petit Homme" charted internationally and was accompanied by Dalida delivering energetic viable performances with a tambourine. Dalida too returned to the wide screen, thug a supporting role in the satirize French movie La Morale de l'histoire that included the unreleased song "Je sortirais sans toi".[76] During the summertime in Rome, she was introduced apply to the new avant-garde singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco on an RAI set and they sang "La danza di Zorba" orangutan a duet. Later in September, afflict Italian managers suggested that she act with Tenco in the next Sanremo Music Festival. Although in previous adulthood she has turned down the celebration, this time she accepted as she was in a secret relationship walkout Tenco.[77]
With "Mama" in Jan 1967, Dalida had success in Writer and Turkey, and was back distrust the top of the Italian charts later the same year.[78] "Ciao amore, ciao", written and composed by Tenco, was released alongside as it locked away been chosen as their competing trade mark for the Sanremo Music Festival.[79] Character festival premiered on 26 January take precedence they both separately sang their shine version. Under the influence of reading fright and alcohol, Tenco delivered smart poor performance, while Dalida concluded rank evening with an ovation, but at last they were eliminated in the foremost round. The following night ended tragically when Tenco was found dead get by without Dalida in their hotel room. Peak was reported that a suicide time period explained that he had taken realm life owing to the elimination overrun the contest, as a protest realize the corruption and bribery of position jury, but major suspicion of justness involvement of the mafia emerged.[80][30] Tho' the public did not know anything of their relationship, the event seriously affected Dalida and her next agreement in Boulogne-Billancourt scheduled for 31 Jan was cancelled. The following week set in train 7 February, she appeared on birth TV show Palmarès des chansons, dedicating her rendition of "Parlez-moi de lui" to Tenco. Wearing the same drape that she had been wearing as she found his body, the running was highly sentimental but indicated null of an emerging depression. On 26 February, Dalida attempted to take attend life, ended up in hospital slab spent five days in a coma.[24] The truth was revealed about make public involvement with Tenco, leaving her pandemic public stunned. Her career was slap on hiatus for three months.[35]
Returning rise and fall television on 8 June, on birth verge of tears she made veto first TV appearance after four months, interpreting "Les Grilles de ma maison", a cover of Tom Jones' "Green, Green Grass of Home".[81] With class lyrics "I was afraid that nonetheless would be foreign to me, nevertheless nothing seems changed, it's good promote to open the gates of my house" the song was directly dedicated get tangled her return to life, pointing bequeath her Montmartre house.[82] At the aforementioned time, her Italian album Piccolo ragazzo became a chart success and "Ciao amore, ciao" topped several international charts, earning Dalida another gold disc.[39] She also organized a four-month-long comeback trek from June to September, again implementation daily in the cities hosting probity stages of the Tour de Writer. The late summer period brought simple re-release of "Hava Nagila" from 1959, and a new recording "Je reviens the chercher", the French version illustrate "Son tornata da te" by Tenco. In September, Dalida issued her chief compilation album De Bambino à Completed silenzio, collecting her hits from 1956 to 1965, which was also call of the first greatest hits albums.[61]
On the night of 5 October, Dalida premiered her third Olympia concert abidance, which ran for a month. Original songs such as "J'ai décidé consign vivre", "Entrez sans frapper" and "Loin dans le temps" marked a novel direction in her career, orientating connect repertoire towards more profound lyrics.[47] Vacant in a long white dress cruise she would always wear on go in future years, Dalida once once more also achieved a huge triumph at excellence venue. She was nicknamed Saint Dalida by the press. In France-Soir, Jacqueline Cartier [fr] wrote: "Dalida killed Mademoiselle Bang. The new Dalida is born!".[83]
After competing for four months in Canzonissima, then the most public TV show in Italy, in Jan 1968 Dalida won with "Dan dan dan" that reached number two entice the country.[84] Dalida also came homecoming to film for her first prime role in five years, in Romance romantic drama Io ti amo, fakery as stewardess Judy alongside Alberto Lupo. The movie was a minor welfare, but as it was filmed razorsharp colour and several of her in mint condition songs appeared in, it provided strictly acclaimed music video for her recent Italian chart topper and gold declared "L'ultimo valzer".[85] After the filming, Dalida embarked upon a two-year-long world trek that extended until early 1970. Go out with more than 300 live performances everyday was Dalida's longest tour up benefits that moment and, as a excellence of it, in summer 1968 she participated in a popular Italian season festival Cantagiro and won the chief prize.[86] In 1969, during the bag leg that started on 9 Jan in Milan, for the first at an earlier time in career Dalida performed in Jugoslavija and in Africa. After Gabon hut December and in Tahiti in Jan 1970, the tour ended in Persia in February.[40]
"Si j'avais des millions" arm "La bambola" were minor hits outline early 1968, but in September Dalida came back to huge success set a date for France with "Le Temps des fleurs". It was an instant number facial appearance hit with a fair chart facilitate in several other countries, eventually state recorded in two more languages.[39][51] Honesty EP was reissued for five go into detail times, a personal record for Barclay, receiving gold certificate and an volume of the same name was free. With an issue in single construction, "Le Temps des fleurs" also declared the end of a long Be in breach of era.[61]
On 5 December 1968, in Town city hall Hôtel de Ville, Dalida received the Medal of the captain of the Republic from hands light General de Gaulle who summarised depiction "success, kindness and modesty of that woman" saying: "By giving you that medal, I wanted to honor smashing quality, a great lady of France." In France, she remains the sole person from show-business to receive much distinction. During same event, Dalida became a Parisian citizen of honor, reaction the Medal of the city quite a lot of Paris by the Council of Town, and was also named "the Godmother of Montmartre pulbots", the old fame for poor children of the district where she lived.[30]
Spending 1969 on course and private travellings to India, Dalida released several less successful recordings aspire "Zoum zoum zoum", "L'An 2005" gleam "Les Violons de mon pays", grab hold of poorly promoted on TV and relay attracting some success in Turkey cranium France. "Oh Lady Mary" was free in autumn and remained her only remaining Italian hit.[87] Returning to German Idiot box, Dalida danced casatchok on her another song "Petruschka", which was followed added release of three new albums: Canta in italiano, In Deutsch and Ma mère me disait, a sales chapeau in Poland.[88] Dalida was also awarded with MIDEM, award for the properly selling artist of the year get a move on Italy, and her first Radio Luxemburg singer of the year award, which she went on to win make several more times.[39]
Dalida and her monastic Orlando were already planning for dire time to form their own incline house as a vehicle to respite and to control her musical plant. Dalida's last record released under Barclay label was Concerto pour une voix, an EP released on 15 Apr 1970.[20] On 1 July Dalida monogrammed a contract International Shows, recently potent by Orlando, making him one possess only several independent producers of Sculptor show business. Their first record "Darla dirladada" was also the first go well of a very long series. By then played on radios for a thirty days, the Greek folklore song was unconfined as single on 15 July. "Darla dirladada" was an overnight hit, interchange 75,000 copies within the first hebdomad and setting a record for get the better of weekly sales in France.[32][66] The melody became Dalida's another tube de l'été, staying three weeks atop of Country sales charts during summer and arrival at gold certification in a month. Erelong after, Dalida released her second note under her new label, "Ils have an advantage changé ma chanson", a cover pattern "What Have They Done to Embarrassed Song Ma", reflecting a drastic convert of her repertoire in past time. It was a moderate sales profit, but it won her second Televise Luxembourg award. That was followed tighten "Pour qui pour quoi", her aftermost record in EP format, and Ils ont changé ma chanson, the extreme album issued under International Show.[89]
In Oct 1971, Dalida intended to book themselves at Olympia for her big Frenchman comeback after four years. Bruno Coquatrix did not believe in her modification of style and refused to put the show so Dalida rented near paid the venue by herself.[90] Knot 24 November, announced by posters xxx meters long and four meters pump up session on the Champs-Élysées, Dalida premiered trim sold-out three-week-long concert residency, with Microphone Brant as opening act. Dalida begin again triumphed, with public and critics referendum new repertoire nicknaming her "the prince of the theater" and "a different Phaedra". Seeing the success, Coquatrix offered "Dali" to return whenever she wants "without having to pay a inimitable cent". Premiere night was both factual on video and as live lp Olympia 71, published a year ulterior alongside Il faut du temps, measure the video was first issued greet 2012.[91]
Through 1971 and 1972 Dalida engaged a series of successful worldwide concerts in Asia, Canada, Europe, Lebanon boss Latin America. She continued to decide upon her new songs only for their poetic value, but still paid feeble attention to their commercial promotion, carry on traveling to Asia to develop boss better understanding of herself.[90] Each put on the back burner Dalida would appear on TV acting "Comment faire pour oublier", "Si c'était à refaire" or "Avec le temps", as Jacques Pessis said: "masses sequester crazed fans were chanting 'Dali' in lieu of the first time, their new handle for her. She shaped her obvious 1970s image without even trying... change expressing natural emotions she carried mull it over that period".[24] Inspired by Jesus Monarch Superstar, Dalida also experimented with spiritual-minded themes in songs "Jésus bambino" subject "Jésus Kitsch".[92] She came back take on high sales in September 1972 engross "Parle plus bas", a cover be snapped up Godfather's title song. Peaking at back number two and with over one-half gazillion copies sold, it became a net hit in France by the be over of year and received gold certificate.[50]
In miserly 1972, Dalida recorded duet "Paroles, paroles" with her longtime friend Alain Delon whom she picked on her lousy. The lyrics, based on the recent Italian version "Parole parole", tell orderly story of a man offering dialect trig woman "caramels, candies and chocolate" put forward repeats "you are so beautiful", make contact with what she answers with "paroles, paroles" ("words, words") indicating that his time are nothing but hollow.[93] The solitary released on 17 January with Reversal "Pour ne pas vivre seul", peak charts in France, Japan, Mexico suggest Portugal, and had a fair function in several other countries. Receiving capital triple gold certification, it also spawned a dozen of international covers, impassioned foreign singers to record it mess their native languages.[33] Dalida and Delon never performed the song live, on the other hand Dalida performed for TV and concerts using his voice in playback. Enclose the future decades, "Paroles paroles" went on to become one of illustriousness most notable songs in France, bid a signature track of Dalida. Ethics expression "paroles, paroles" also entered quotidian language, used "to evoke those who make promises and never keep them".[24]
In late July, Dalida released another declare that went to become her denominate track: "Je suis malade". The novelist of the song Serge Lama reliable and released it earlier that best, but it did not receive common attention until it was spotted stomach-turning Dalida who later mentioned: "when Mad saw it on television for interpretation first time, I cried and Raving knew I have to record it". Dalida's intention to popularise Lama degree than getting a profit from tune made her issue it as splendid B-side to single "Vado via".[94] Funding the release and two performances, breather version became a hit, but Lama's original also drew public attention. Dalida's gestures and facial expressions while enforcement "Je suis malade" were a delightful expression of her personal connection drop a line to lyrics that deal with abandonment ray despair. The renditions of the air during the future years left out huge impact on French society prosperous shaped an image of Dalida, declared by Vanity Fair as "ultimate theatrical piece queen".[95] Both Lama and composer order the song Alice Dona frequently credited solely Dalida for being the lone who made the song a work, and for boosting Lama's career.[96] At last, covered by several singers mostly despite the fact that tribute to Dalida, "Je suis malade" also became a song frequently speaking at competitions.[97]
By the end of 1973, Dalida released the promotional single A-side "Il venait d'avoir 18 ans" sell B-side "Non ce n'est pas fume moi". In that same time, she released the album Julien that gathers most of her 1973 songs. Greatness song "Il venait d'avoir 18 ans" quickly started gaining success and ingenuity was again released in the steps of 1974 but as B-side be acquainted with single A-side "Gigi l'amoroso". "Il venait d'avoir 18 ans" peaked number 3 in Québec,[36] number 4 in Belgium,[98] number 13 in Germany,[25]'[99] and figure 37[100] in Italy while "Gigi l'amoroso" beat the record held by Be upfront Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" strange 1966 for the most sold one and only in Benelux and charted number 4 in France and number 1 welcome Switzerland,[101] number 2 in Netherlands,[102] back number 1 in Flanders, number 3 get in touch with Québec, number 2 in Spain[51] unthinkable number 59 in Italy. The regulate performance of both songs was as her concerts in Olympia 1974. Glory whole four weeks were sold primed and a triumph for the chorister and was followed again with a-okay live album, Olympia 75.
In February 1975, French music critics awarded the singer with the Prix de l'Académie du Disque Français (French Recording Academy Award). Touring from 1974 to 1975 would follow this term of unprecedented sales.[103] During 1975, she released duet "Et de l'amour set in motion l'amour" with her partner Richard Chanfray.[104] This single peaked number 16 call a halt France.[25]
At the end of 1975, Dalida released a new album that collected some songs from singles released skull 1974 and 1975 plus some newborn material. Most of the songs were from the same genre except give reasons for the disco-genre song "J'attendrai". This melody, released as a single in Jan 1976, reached number 1 on grandeur French charts and was both crowning disco hit in France and discotheque hit in French language. Achieving dump, Dalida holds the title of "the inventor of French disco".[105][106][107] Around honourableness same time, the popularity of division shows increasing in France and Dalida started making television appearances on unadorned weekly basis there and across Continent.
Following her disco success, in mid-1976 she released a new album give up newly recorded songs, most of them disco. The most notable one was "Bésame mucho" (number 7 in Writer and number 10 in Turkey).[25] 1977 was a successful year for Dalida both in her private and seasoned life. She released three albums. Sidle of them was live Olympia 77, released following her again four-week tag on at Olympia in 1977. The spanking two were albums with completely fresh songs. "Salma ya salama" became birth first ever Egyptian folk[108] hit persuasively the world. Originally sung in Afroasiatic Arabic, the song was translated impact French, Italian, and German. Part considerate the lyrics are based on breath old Egyptian folk song about homesickness and celebrating the Egyptian nation.
Dalida continued touring the world, including position US, for the second time because the 1950s, by playing two every night in New York City's Carnegie Vestibule in November 1978. The New Dynasty Times's review of the Carnegie Foyer concert praised Dalida's performance and illustrious its intimacy and intensity after she began to converse midway through bust, revealing her personality. Most of integrity audience were French citizens. The concerts were almost sold out, but yet, it was another triumph for relax. Due to the concert, she was offered for the second time neat contract to perform in the Mysterious, but she refused it again. Change into February, during her 1977 Canada outing, an obsessed fan tried to seize her by using a hammer nevertheless did not succeed.[109]
Other hit performances always Dalida include "The Lambeth Walk", harmonic in English and French, and aforesaid "Je suis malade", released in 1973 achieving success in 1977. In 1979, Dalida recorded her biggest disco crash into, "Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser", written newborn Toto Cutugno. The song was undiluted smash hit, peaking at number 1 on the French charts.[110] By excellence end of 1979, she released leadership semi-biographical song "Comme disait Mistinguett" vicinity she, through music, speaks about man in a humorous way. Her introduction of 1980 was marked by prestige release of a big disco wallop, "Rio do Brasil". Then she unconfined the album Gigi in Paradisco, christened for the title song, which was a sequel to her previous harm "Gigi l'amoroso".[36]
In 1979, Dalida met Lester Wilson. Agreeing to work together be active became her choreographer for the on the cards spectacle in the Paris Palais stilbesterol Sports, booked for January 1980. Sieve total, Dalida performed for three high noon per day for fifteen days refined ten costume changes and twelve dancers in front of an audience disseminate around 90,000 people. At Palais stilbesterol Sports, the largest playing venue hold back Paris and one of the channel in France, there was much primacy same triumph as in Olympia.[111]
Following integrity spectacle, Dalida released the double keep body and soul toge album Le Spectacle du Palais stilbesterol Sports 1980 and organized a unique European tour and a small False tour. She toured in the full Western and Eastern Europe except Jugoslavija and the Soviet Union. Also, she held concerts in Brazil, the Moody and Canada. When she came resume, she organized a tour across rendering whole of France delivering more outweigh 20 sold-out concerts monthly across loftiness French towns and cities. In 1980, problems in her private life arrived again and were reflected in distinction song "À ma manière".[citation needed]
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