Dalida singer biography

Her 54 years had been filled with both great success and great tragedy. Three of her partners had previously committed suicide, and Dalida had attempted to take her own life in after the suicide of her lover, the Italian singer and actor Luigi Tenco. Despite the trauma of her personal life, though, her career was a story of almost-unbroken achievement.

In France, where she lived most of her adult life, she was an undisputed superstar — a poll in published in Le Monde ranked Dalida second, after General de Gaulle, among personalities who had the greatest impact on French society.

Dalida parents

She continues to influence pop-culture today, with many of her hits being remixed as dance numbers. Here, her younger brother Orlando — with whom she co-founded their own record label in , in order to give her more control over her career — shares his memories of his legendary sister with Arab News. Dalida in Rome in the s.

Getty Images. Dalida — who was called Iolanda at the time — grew up with my brother and me, the youngest. We grew up with the same education, in the same neighborhood, the same atmosphere, and yet we were totally different. If my brother and I had a very joyful, very happy childhood, this was not the case for Dalida.