The Nights of Edith Piaf
The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:28.0 | FM slash donate. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Present. Today's episode, The Knights of Edith Pia. |
| 1:43.0 | She rose every day at dusk, sang, rehearsed, performed, ate, and drank until dawn. |
| 1:51.0 | Then she slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel again as the sun went down. |
| 1:59.0 | Nearly every song Edith Piaf sang was from a moment of her life from the streets of Paris. She would tell her |
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