{"id":25890,"date":"2017-01-24T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=25890"},"modified":"2018-03-23T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:56:11","slug":"third-time-is-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/third-time-is-the-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"Third time is charming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few weeks<\/a> I’ve been sharing some of my favorite French songs with you to help build vocabulary and pronunciation. While the 80’s where the heyday of rich story songs, all the great story songs aren’t from then. This week, a song that goes back a little bit further which many will recognize as it was a song that found success in a number of languages and a number of forms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Le tombeau de Dalida au Cimiti\u00e8re de Montmartre [Dalida’s tomb at the Montmartre cemetary] – By Thomon – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=48249144<\/p><\/div>Dalida (n\u00e9e Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti) was an Italian singer born and raised in Egypt who achieved global success singing in more than ten languages . . . including, of course, French! This version of Itsi Bitsi Bikini is from relatively early in her career (which spanned 30 years and included selling more than 170 million albums worldwide) and happier times. Sadly, despite her global success, the end of her life was less joyous. Dalida took her own life in 1987. She is buried at the Montmartre <\/a>cemetary in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. And in a cemetery with it’s share of illustrious “guests” and interesting tombeaux<\/strong> (tombs)*,<\/em> her’s must surely be one of the most interesting.<\/p>\n