Unwilling to let these faults deter him, he made a strong impressions with the comedy Une gosse sensass’ (1957) and with Paris Music Hall (1957). Short and stubby in stature and excessively brash and brooding in nature, he was hardly leading man material but embraced his shortcomings nevertheless. In the late 50s, Aznavour began to infiltrate films with more relish. My shortcomings are my voice, my height, my gestures, my lack of culture and education, my frankness and my lack of personality. He lived with Piaf out of need for a time not as one of her many paramours. Heavily encouraged by her, he toured with her as both an opening act and lighting man. “French is my working language but my family language is always Armenian”Įventually Aznavour earned a sturdy reputation composing street-styled songs for other established musicians and singers, notably Édith Piaf, for whom he wrote the French version of the American hit “Jezebel”. Together they developed names for themselves as a singing/writing cabaret and concert duo (“Roche and Aznamour”).Īfter World War Second Charles began appearing in films again, one of them as a singing croupier in Goodbye Darling (1946). He eventually quit school and toured France and Belgium as a boy singer/dancer with a traveling theatrical troupe while living the bohemian lifestyle.Ī popular performer at the Paris’ Club de la Chanson, it was there that he was introduced in 1941 to the songwriter Pierre Roche.
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He took his first theatrical bow in the play “Emil and the Detectives” at age 9 and within a few years was working as a movie extra. He had 250 duets with the biggest names, appeared in 90 films and received over 500 awards. Three years ago today the world lost Charles Aznavour – an artist, singer, composer, humanist and one of the greatest variety performers of the 20th century.ĭuring a career spanning for 70 years, Aznavour recorded over 1,400 songs in nine languages and sold 200 million albums worldwide.
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