“We turned up at her home, and she let us in,” Dumont told AFP in 2018 about the day in 1960 when he managed to see Piaf together with his lyricist, Michel Vaucaire. “I played the piece on the piano, ...
If ever a song deserved to be called “iconic” it’s Non, Je ne Regrette Rien, whose composer Charles Dumont has died at the ...
Songwriter and singer Charles Dumont, who composed the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I do not regret anything") made ...
D'abord trompettiste et passionné de jazz, il avait commencé sa carrière de compositeur anonymement à l'aide de pseudonymes, ...
In the 1950s, he met lyricist Michel Vaucaire while working odd jobs to make ends meet. This meeting began a fruitful ...
It was the song’s lyricist, Michel Vaucaire, who persuaded him to try again four years later. Despite her initial reluctance, ...
Le compositeur du légendaire « Non, je ne regrette rien » et compagnon de route de la Môme est décédé à l’âge de 95 ans. Il ...
Charles Dumont, who has died aged 95, was a jobbing song-writer who hit the jackpot when, with the lyricist Michel Vaucaire, ...
La carrière du chanteur, auteur de nombreuses romances au piano rehaussées de violons, avait été lancée par le titre « Non, ...
While he originally wrote the ballad in 1956, aged 27, it wasn’t until 1960, when he was 31, that he and lyricist Michel ...
French singer-songwriter Charles Dumont, who composed Edith Piaf's Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, has died at the age of 95.
Charles Dumont était en son temps l’un des plus célèbres compositeurs français, notamment pour avoir donné à Édith Piaf l’une ...