Born on the pavement of the Rue de Belleville 72 , Paris, she was name after nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed for helping French soldiers to scape during World War I.
Daughter of a French femme who ran a brothel where prostitutes often took care of her daughter and an Italian street acrobat she was soon abandoned by her parents.
Blind from age three to seven as a result of a keratitis she recovers and starts singing all over the streets of France at the age 14.
At the age of seventeen she has her only child, Marcelle, who died of meningitis at age two.
She looses as well the love of her life, married boxer Marcel Cerdan who died on a plane crash in October 1949 , while flying from New York to Paris to meet her.
Addicted to morphine and alcohol, she goes through rehabilitation three different times during her life time and dies of liver cancer at Plascassier, on October 1963 being 47 years old.
Edith Giovanna Gasson was still able to see life through a pink colored glass. She said it once and after all... "La Vie en Rose"... no matter what. Enjoy:
Who will believe that was such a story behind that voice.... amazing!
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