Edith Piaf was one of the most iconic voices of the twentieth century, a tiny woman with an enormous presence and a raw emotional power that seemed to stop time. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Paris in 1915 and grew up in harsh poverty. Her early childhood was marked by neglect and illness, and for a period she was raised in her grandmother’s brothel in Normandy. Out of this difficult beginning came a fierce independence and a voice that sounded as if it carried every scar of her past. A

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