In France, although the film was hailed by critics, it became a commercial failure.ĭalida was deeply disturbed by the suicide of her partner Luigi Tenco in 1967.

The film was successful in Egypt where three million people gathered in Shubra to see Dalida at the preview. She sang with singers such as Julio Iglesias, Charles Aznavour, Johnny Mathis and Petula Clark.Īlthough she shot a few films alongside her career as a singer, she effectively reconnected with cinema with The Sixth Day, a film by Youssef Chahine released in 1986. Among her greatest sales successes were ' Le jour où la pluie viendra', ' Gigi l'amoroso', ' J'attendrai', and ' Salama ya salama'. Her music charted in many countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and Asia. Following this, she became the most important seller of records in France between 19.

One year later, having signed with the Barclay record company, Dalida achieved her first success as a singer with 'Bambino'. Her best known songs are ' Bambino', ' Gondolier', ' Les enfants du Pirée', ' Le temps des fleurs', ' Darla dirladada', ' J'attendrai', and ' Paroles, paroles' featuring spoken word by Alain Delon.įirst an actress, she made her debut in the film A Glass and a Cigarette by Niazi Mustapha in 1955. She sang in eleven languages and sold millions of records internationally.

She lives in Beverly Hills, where she can enjoy a peaceful life far from her adoring (and overbearing) fans, visiting France only to perform.Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti ( Italian: 17 January 1933 – ), professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian-French singer and actress, born in Egypt. Married for a while to French heart-throb Jonny Hallyday, when that marriage failed, Sylvie married her American arranger and promoter, Tony Scotti. Sylvie instead took her cue from Claude François' frenetic stage presence, and incorporated extravagantly choreographed dance routines into her concerts that had the critics frothing at the mouth, and the teen public in first France, then Europe, and eventually the whole world flocking to see her. French singers before her all tended to follow the Edith Piaf mold, standing rigid in front of the microphone. Sylvie has been known from the start as a high energy performer. Sylvie’s brother, Eddy, who was the studio engineer for the session brought in his 16 year old sister to perform the female part on the song “Panne d'essence” (“Out of gas”), and the resulting single was a runaway success that launched a career that has now spanned 60 decades. Sylvie Vartan rocketed to fame in 1961, when English singer Gillian Hill failed to show up for a recording session in Paris with then current French pop idol Frankie Jordan.

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