i downloaded her version of Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) and noticed she's been around for quite a while but there aren't really any album reviews on AMG
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 11 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)
Cheesy Egyptian singer, very camp and very popular among gays. Best song: "Paroles".
― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Sunday, 13 June 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)
the song etienne mentions is a duet with morrissey fave alain delon
not one of the french singers of the period i usually recommend, but she's melodramatic without being bombastic
― mig (mig), Sunday, 13 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― mig (mig), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)
i bought "bambino" for a euro last summer in bordeaux and finally played it the other night.. it was scratchy, but what a song!! what a face! what a VOICE! check out this video of her
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 November 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)
^
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 January 2009 17:55 (seventeen years ago)
4ever in love
someone needs to do a biopic of this lady. what an incredible, and apparently painful life - from ingenue to world dominating chart topper to disco kitsch queen to suicide
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 January 2009 17:56 (seventeen years ago)
I need to hear something by her; I was on a walk in Montmartre with a bunch of colleagues a few years back when we came upon a statue of her, and the guy leading the walk said, "Dalida" and everyone on the walk stood there nodding, scratching their beards thoughtfully and appreciatively, and I was like wtf is this. So I'm intrigued.
― Euler, Friday, 9 January 2009 18:03 (seventeen years ago)
Her self-titled 1968 album is stunning. I've played it to death. Her voice sounds like all the Mediterranean lands put together; elemental, in a word.
― Josefa, Friday, 9 January 2009 18:06 (seventeen years ago)
Euler check that link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 January 2009 18:07 (seventeen years ago)
Think I posted a picture of that statue at one point.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 January 2009 18:14 (seventeen years ago)
ok wow that youtube video is terrific! I'll track down more of this.
― Euler, Friday, 9 January 2009 18:15 (seventeen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i11oAmW712Q
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 05:27 (ten years ago)