Why Céline Dion did not shut the Olympics opening ceremony with ‘L’hymne à l’amour’

The forbidden love story evokes Piaf to put in writing a love tune. Pianist Marguerite Monnot gives the music. Piaf carried out the tune for the primary time on September 14, 1949, in a cabaret corridor in New York.

Six weeks later, catastrophe strikes. On the night of October 27, Cerdan takes a airplane to America, the place his girlfriend Piaf nonetheless lives. The 2 undoubtedly wish to be collectively once more quickly. However the airplane crashed over the Azores, killing everybody on board.

Piaf will kill her lover do not overdo it anymore. A while later she data the hymn within the studio, as a result of that had not occurred but. Piaf retains the prophetic phrases, which undergo the marrow and the bone.

“Si un jour la vie t’arrache à moi; if life takes you from me in the future” ..“As a result of I’d die too; dan sterf ik okay”. And for many who might have thought final evening’s opening ceremony was too poor, the end line: “Dieu réunit ceux qui s’aiment; God brings collectively those that love each other”.