French singer-songwriter Charles Dumont, composer of Edith Piaf’s Je Ne Regrette Rien, has died on the age of 95.
Dumont was 27 when he wrote the music in 1956. But it wasn’t till 1960 that he was satisfied to method the star, who accepted it enthusiastically.
Je Ne Regrette Rien (I remorse nothing) – which expresses the will to make peace with the previous and begin over – has develop into one among Piaf’s most well-known songs.
It reached the highest of the charts in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. The music can be very well-known all through the English-speaking world, particularly was cited in 1993 by then British Chancellor Norman Lamont.
When requested at a information convention if he regretted optimistic statements made whereas the economic system was struggling, Lamont replied, “Je ne conscious rien,” prompting laughter amongst reporters however controversy later.
In a 2018 interview, Dumont instructed the AFP information company that he initially didn’t dare method Piaf with the music as a result of she “had already fired me 3 times and I did not need to see her once more”.
But the music’s lyricist, Michel Vaucaire, satisfied him to provide it a attempt 4 years later. Dumont added that Piaf confirmed excessive reluctance when the couple confirmed up at her condominium, however allowed Dumont to play the music on her piano.
“From that second on we had been inseparable,” he mentioned. Dumont would ultimately compose greater than 30 songs for Piaf earlier than her demise in 1963.
Edith Piaf turned a global star after spending a lot of her adolescence on the streets of Paris.
She is legendary for singing ballads, together with La Vie en Rose, Milord and La Foule.
Dumont has continued to have a profitable solo profession for the reason that Seventies.
