France Gall: his “kinship” unknown Charles Aznavour – Gala

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Lyricist, the singer’s father has written one of the most famous success of the great Charles. A title inspired by the grand-mother of France…

It is a relationship that Charles Aznavour spoke again on the set of Laurent Delahousse, on France 2, Sunday, 7 January, a few hours after the announcement of his disappearance. Swept away by a cancer recurrence at the age of 70 years of age, France Gall was not only a muse, companion and wife. Born Isabelle Gall, she was first the daughter of Robert Gall, opera singer, and then – at the end of the years 50 – lyricist for other artists such as Hugues Aufray, a friend of the family, Marie Laforêt, or… Charles Aznavour.

He must be one of his greatest successes, La Mamma, written in 1963. A title that does not inspire the experience of the performer, but the grand-mother of France Gall. “(My father) had 2 months when my grandfather was killed in the war of 14-18, and my grand-mother, the famous Mamma sung by Aznavour, who was in fact, a very small bird, has raised only “, explicitait the singer in an interview with The Express, in 2004.

“It has been refused by all the composers, remembered Charles Aznavour about the song, in front of Laurent Delahousse, 7 January. I took the song and I said : “but it is very good ! “. And I wrote the music in a very short time “.

Of France, Charles the great keeps a memory rather distant. “I knew little and only met her three times in my life. Two times, we did a duet on a song that we had written with his father, Mamma. The first time he had brought his daughter to Brussels to ensure that I push it to sing. She didn’t want to sing and found that she had a wonderful voice. And finally, she has agreed to do so after having seen my show. “

France ensured to be “once again a little girl” after her first duet with Mr. Aznavour. “Around us, there was the soul of my father who has written, and grandmother who inspired it “, she continued.

Translated into several languages, the song bears today a little bit of France, the discreet,…

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France Gall, Charles Aznavour

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