Sentence examples for piaf from inspiring English sources

1 August SELDA BAĞCAN "Selda is like the Edith Piaf of Turkey, a tremendous political voice, a folk musician in the broadest sense.

As Piaf put it, "I was not in the Resistance, but I helped my soldiers".By contrast, Jean Guéhenno, an essayist, refused absolutely to write for any outlet approved by the Germans.

Cotillard, who stunningly captured the gauche grace of Piaf, was widely and effusively praised for her mercurial, often-tortured performance that captured the diminutive singer in a way rarely seen on-screen.

Piaf, exhausted by drink, drugs, multiple love affairs and road accidents, had retired, at the age of 44.

No one but Piaf could get so much passion from all those guttural, Parisian "Rs": "Hrrien de hrrien.

They settled on Phil McIntyre, the comedy mastermind behind the West End juggernaut We Will Rock You and hired Jamie Lloyd, 32, a promising director who already had hit musicals Passion and Piaf to his name.

Edith Piaf sang there, and Jeff Buckley, who revered her, did one of his best shows there.

Even Edith Piaf, that most cherished of French celebrities, has not been immune to accusations of collaboration with the Nazis.

The French said Amalia reminded them of Edith Piaf, who sang nostalgically of the tragedies in her life.

Edith Piaf, who said in 1940 that "my real job is to sing, to sing no matter what happens", was willing to perform twice in Stalag III-D, a camp for French prisoners-of-war outside Berlin but on her first visit cleverly encouraged the camp commander to allow photographs to be taken of her with him and the POWs.

Some suggest that rap's urban poetry builds on France's lyrical singing tradition, from Edith Piaf to Françoise Hardy.Traditionalists are dismayed by rap's linguistic contortions.