The Nights of Edith Piaf

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn. Then slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel again as the sun went down. Nearly every song Edith Piaf sang came from a moment of her life on the streets of Paris. She would tell her composer and musician lovers a story, or describe a feeling or show them a gesture and they would put music and words to her pain and passion, giving her back her own musical autobiography. Charles Aznavour, Francis Lai, Georges Moustaki, Henri Contet, some of France’s great musicians and writers recall their nights with Edith Piaf.

The Nights of Edith Piaf was Produced by The Kitchen Sisters in collaboration with Raquel Bitton, who hosts and translates the program.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present.
0:04.0	We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson, and Nikki Silva.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present.
0:16.0	Today's episode, The Knights of Edith Pia.
0:20.0	She rose every day at dusk, sang, rehearsed, performed, ate,
0:26.2	and drank until dawn. Then she slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel
0:33.1	again as the sun went down. Nearly every song Edith Piaf sang was from a moment of her life from the streets of Paris.
0:42.3	She would tell her composer and musician lovers a story, or describe a feeling or show them a gesture.
0:49.3	Write me a song about being lonely in London on a Sunday, she'd say.
0:57.9	And they would put music and words to her pain and passion,
1:01.0	giving her back her own musical autobiography.
1:04.6	Charles Asnevor, Francis Le,
1:07.9	Georges Mustaki, Henri Comte.
1:13.6	Some of France's greatest musicians recall their nights with Edith Piaf. This is a broadcast between the cities of Paris and New York, between the Statue of Liberty and the Isletal.
1:21.6	Paris, can you hear me?
1:23.6	Yeah.
1:24.6	Hello?
1:25.6	Hello.
1:26.6	We have with us today a young lady from Paris who has captivated New York.
1:31.4	She is to France what all our most popular singers are to us.
1:36.5	She's Miss Adith Pia.
1:38.1	Today she is paying her first visit to the Statue of Liberty.
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