Sentence examples for the piaf from inspiring English sources

The museum is a tiny apartment owned by the Piaf fan club.

In 1935, while singing on the street for tips, she met the first of several father figures who helped mold her into the Piaf of legend.

Mr. Zimmer said he had no idea how awards bodies would react to his "Inception" score's incorporation of the Piaf track.

Marchois kept looking at his watch — he had a doctor's appointment — so he turned off the Piaf CD he was playing, and we said goodbye on the sidewalk.

It was Trierweiler who had chosen the Piaf song, stock soundtrack of France, and who had asked the mayor to play it.

The Piaf piece, a suite of vignettes drawn from life, was designed to make full use of the theater's dimensions and crotchets.

He billed her as La Môme, môme meaning kid, the Piaf Kid; later she became best known as "the little sparrow".

Because the Piaf songs invite all-out declamation, they are intrinsically operatic in a way that the saloon songs in her set were not, and Ms. Racette rode them proudly.