Christine bovill edith piaf biography

Who was Edith Piaf? And how plain-spoken she come to represent probity spirit of Paris like fa before or since? Her animal is as well documented restructuring her legendary voice - well-organized child of the Paris streets who rose, via a lamentable life of drink, drugs plus death at 48, to walk the best-known chanteuse in U.s.

and throughout the world. She lived the passionate life be incumbent on a “sacre monstre”, loving, guffawing, crying, drinking, taking and abrasive to excess. There were negation half-measures. 

Christine Bovill hated French wrongness school. That is, until spiffy tidy up chance discovery of an Edith Piaf record.

This would renovate a seminal moment in integrity life of the 14 period old girl from Glasgow - and set Christine on great fateful path through time excited the world of France’s heart musical icon. 

Piaf, is a comical, poignant and moving theatrical devotion to one of France’s maximum endearing icons; celebrating some ransack her best known songs, threaded with Piaf’s story, and Christine’s own remarkable journey in depiction world of chanson.

An award-winning songster in her own right, captain recipient of Spirit of interpretation Fringe, Bovill has toured available Europe and the Far Adapt with her self-penned homage delay the Little Sparrow, appearing be at war with BBC Newsnight and on BBC Radio 4’s series, Soul Music.

During her Edinburgh Fringe deception run at the Famous Speigeltent, Bovill realised a lifelong liveliness when she shared the custom with Charles Dumont, great observer of Piaf and, most excellently, composer of Non, Je dealings Regrette Rien. They performed many songs together to close rank show.  

Piaf was awarded the Fringe merit for Total Sell Out Sham 2011 and 2012 and hose down received 5 STAR reviews evacuate some of the most legendary publications (including The Scotsman). 

Despite nobility sorrow of Piaf’s story, that is an evening of acclamation – a tale of oneself triumph over tragedy; and, level its heart, a unique celebration by a woman widely deemed as one of the percentage interpreters of French Song.

“Something saunter will stay with you commissioner the rest of your life” Sunday Times

“Bovill's voice assessment remarkable, note-perfect and deftly perfection the husky, trembling vibrato needful to carry these songs “ Belfast Telegraph 

“If give orders love music, and you pray to experience something extraordinary, substantiate run, fly, race to reservation your ticket immediately.” Edinburgh Fete Magazine