French composer Charles Dumont behind iconic ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ dies

Charles Dumont helped crook Edith Piaf into an planetary singing superstar aft ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ came out, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire.

The French composer who composed the legendary ‘No, I regret nothing’ for Edith Piaf died contiguous astatine the property of 95.

Charles Dumont helped crook Piaf into an planetary singing superstar aft ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ came out, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire.

Dumont, who was calved successful Cahors, successful southbound westbound France, and grew up successful Toulouse, told however helium acold called Piaf astatine her location successful Paris successful 1960, and she was orginally precise rude. She fto him and Vaucaire hold an hr earlier telling them: ‘As you tin spot I americium highly tired’, adding that they were allowed to play her ‘one song’.

Dumont sang ‘I regret nothing’ successful a debased dependable and past – aft an embarrassed soundlessness – Piaf said ‘Fantastic! This is the opus I person been waiting for’. Piaf made the opus celebrated astir the world and – pursuing her ain decease successful 1963 astatine the property of 47 – it was covered by a scope of others stars, specified arsenic Shirley Bassey.

Piaf primitively dedicated ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ to mutinous French Foreign Legionnaires , who were progressive successful the Algerian War of Independence astatine the time. Members of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment were arrested and tried for backing a failed 1961 putsch against the French government, and they walked retired of their barracks singing the song.

Beyond penning astir 30 hits for La Môme (The Kid) – arsenic Piaf was called – Dumont worked with different euphony legends, specified arsenic Barbara Streisand and Dalida. In March this year, helium celebrated his half-a-century agelong vocation astatine the Bataclan euphony hallway successful Paris.

Charles Dumont died astatine his location successful the French superior connected Monday ‘after a agelong illness,’ said a household member.