Despite sales in excess of 100 million records, the leader is best remembered for a life

mired in tragedy. I'm Mark O'Connor, a music writer and journalist. I wanted to find out more

about this incredible story. I started by visiting her

shrine at Montmartre Cemetery in Paris.

Can you hear it?

A man's wish?

Exactly.

da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.

Look these people, they are taking picture. It's unbelievable. She's everywhere. The woman who is everywhere is Deleider and her story is too. Everywhere it seems apart from the corners of the world where English is spoken as a first language. It is a story snagged by tragedy and a life

that was in her own words. Unbearable.

In rows of blao in these moments in the dressing room when it was just the two of us and

you know we had time to talk. That was when we got to know each other and although

it didn't happen that often, these conversations

were quite intense. And I did get the feeling that there was some desperation in her, that

there was something quite tragic going on.

But her life is like a story.

Her life is like a story. If you wrote it, people wouldn't believe it because so many things happen to her and yet it all did happen so

she would certainly be there on the upper slopes of the of the mountain of tragedy. She kept nothing back. You see she gave everything and the public was extremely

grateful for this because that was all this giving that she did.

At the same time it made her extremely vulnerable and it meant that when people wanted to be nasty towards her, they could, because she got nothing

back.

She gave me something that I gave it a full. I'm simply that Jave de Foix,

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