Someone asked me why? Well, it is not something I can just chose and pick a song and write up about it. Most of the songs here meant something to me like....it reminded me of a place or things that happened to me sometime in my life. Of course I have dozens of favorite songs but when writing you just cannot force yourself or squeeze ideas out of your brain. The idea has to fall naturally.
Anyway, here something short for today. I have been contemplating to post this and I finally I decided sure why not....
After my A1 french exam, I have been struggling with A2. It is not that easy learning a third language and I am crawling like a baby.....Within a year we had 3 french teacher, one after the other and it is difficult to adapt to their style. I learned to skip classes giving excuse like too busy with work and had a deadline.
In order to work on pronunciation I decided to buy a CD with French songs and listen in the car when I drive to and back from work, daily. Yes, I did get some pointers from the songs and I listen more and more French songs on You Tube. That was how I discovered Dalida.
Dalida was an Italian Egyptian singer and actress. She started her singing career in 1956 until 1986 a few months before her tragic death. She has performed and recorded in 10 different languages. Dalida was crowned Miss Egypt in 1954 and that got the attention of a French director and made her move to Paris permanent.
She was a bomb. Hits after hits and she was ranked one of the top 6 singers in the world during her prime time even though her songs did not penetrate UK and US markets. Her sales figure today would amount to 170 million albums worldwide.
In the mid-60s Dalida would only sing songs with profound lyrics and has more meaning to her.
I like this song a lot. This is Dalida featuring Alain Delon.
Credit to enjoypink at https://youtu.be/eZFs33Eq0-M
Listening and singing to it is not enough. You must understand what the song is all about. Paroles mean words. The songs is about how powerful a man's word to seduce the love of his life. Fortunately the lady is tired and had enough of his words. This song was recorded in 1973 with her best friend, Alain Delon and became an instant hit.
Another popular song which became a hit, was "Je suis malade" (I am sick) reflects the singer's personal unhappiness and anguish. The emotions with which she sang the song is unmatch even today.
In 1987 Dalida committed suicide by over dosing of barbiturates, just as her 2 lovers, ex-husband and best friend. I guess it was the easiest way out in life......
