The High Drama of Dalida

She looks like drag queen with a good wig.

Seriously, why isn’t Dalida more well known among English speaking people?

Who’s this whore?

R3 you are an ignorant an ugly person.

Dalida was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in France. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

Dalida was no Yma Sumac.

R3 idiot.

Dalida et Delon!

I have the French 45 of this song.

Delon was a hawt piece.

R8 mmm yes. Such a sexy song

Beautiful.

You should be so revered, r3

If DL had a disco, it would look like this:

R12 for real

She really dared you to look away.

Her life shout and success is quite remarkable

Story* not shout. Sheesh.

Dalida invades NYC

Where have all the flowers gone?

I’m living the song and outfits at r12!

R12 gives me life

Dalida recorded the dreary "The Way of Love" years before Cher.

I was such a little queen already that I cried the day her death was announced. Then I used a pencil to dial my best friend on the phone.

I adore her biopic available to stream on Amazon. It didn't get great reviews but who cares? It's Dalida! And the lead actress is very good.

Dalida and Petula Clark were friends for decades which I learned from the biopic. They met at the San Remo Song Festival.

BBC documentary featuring Petula Clark

Je suis malade Complètement malade Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir Et qu'elle me laissait seule avec mon désespoir

She deserves to be a massive gay icon for this camptastic anthem alone

Dalida was a tortured goddess. Leave her be.

Dear old Dalida, I saw her show in Paris in ... 1981 ... it was lame. Basically she was not good enough, was over-sold and she knew it and that made her suicidal. RIP

R28, do tell more. What was lame about it? Did you see her at the Olympia?

Ich habe R18 gern.

She wasn’t suicidal because she wasn’t “good enough” for God’s sakes

Her shrine at Montmartre cemetery

Une grande dame de chanson

[R29] the performance was flat/tired and she seemed old (I was 16). My friends and I went because she was rather notorious. I have no recollection of L'Olympia; I think the venue was in the south of Paris (France).

R33 that is enough to show that she was a woman with high standards which she couldn't meet.

^rubbish

R35 speak truth.

The first major tragedy came with Luigi Tenco, an Italian singer to whom she was engaged. The couple competed at the Sanremo Festival and, following their elimination, Tenco shot himself in the head in their hotel room on January 27th, 1967. One month later, Dalida attempted suicide for the first time with a drug overdose at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Paris. She spent five days in a coma and several months physically recovering.

By the end of the year, she had also been left infertile by the botched termination of a pregnancy conceived with an 18-year-old student. In September 1970, Lucien Morisse, whom she had amicably divorced, shot himself in the head. Five years later, her friend Mark Brant, whose singing career she had nurtured, jumped off an apartment building in Paris. The fourth of her loved ones to commit suicide was Richard Chanfray, a former boyfriend, who gassed himself with his Renault 25 car in July 1983. The following year, Dalida unusually declined the Légion d’honneur.

On the night between May 2nd and 3rd, 1987, Dalida took an overdose of barbiturates. Her note simply read: ‘Life has become unbearable for me…Forgive me’. Her funeral was held at La Madeleine and she was buried at the Cimitière de Montmartre.

R37 speak nonsense

Dalida is amazing.

Does Dalida know Davida?

I have literally never seen anything like that R12. I still look kinda shocked 10 minutes later.

R42 discovering Dalida is like finding a treasure trove. Her catalog is a gift that keeps on giving

[quote] Dalida was no Yma Sumac.

And no Umm Kalthoum, either!

This remix album was my 1997-8 soundtrack

One of my favorite Dalida songs. I find her hypnotic in this clip.

R46 love that song!

She was basically revered in my neighborhood in Paris. I remember seeing her brother Bruno out and about in Montmartre when I lived there for a few years. I lived only a few blocks from her mansion, which looked imposing. Some of my neighbors discussed her fairly dismissively, but would get very angry if an expat joined them in disparaging her music. She was theirs to admire, critique, etc.

How would they discuss her dismissively?

Her version of The Godfather theme is fucking epic

Iolanda Gigliotti