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French Blues.(Edith Piaf)(Biography)
A tiny creature possessed of a power disproportionate to its size, or to its significance in the hierarchy of creation, figures in folktales the world over. It is sometimes a cricket or a mouse. In the folklore of France, it is une piaf, the argot for sparrow. Edith Piaf 's tremendous voice surged from a stunted body. She considered herself hopelessly ugly, yet her rag-doll features had the same radiance that her sound did. It came, in part, from the friction between raw grief and joy which produced her vibrato. She planted her feet at a microphone as if it were a stake or a mast and she was about to be either burned at it or swept away. Destitution was her great theme, ...
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