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Dalida (January 17, 1933 - May 3, 1987) was an
Egypt|Egyptian-born singer, of Italy|Italian
origin, making her career in France.

Born Yolande Christina Gigliotti of Italy|Italian
parents in Shoubra, a district of Cairo, Egypt,
she was the child of an opera violinist and was
given singing lessons at an early age. She
developed into a beautiful young lady, and in 1954
she won the  Miss Egypt beauty contest and
immediately left for Paris, France, to pursue a
career in motion pictures.

Despite her looks, her first films were less than
successful, but she began performing in music
halls and cabarets, singing in French, Italian and
other languages. Using the stage name, "Dalida",
she recorded songs, her second single titled
"Bambino (song)|Bambino" brought instant fame. In
1957, she appeared at the Paris Olympia as the
opening act for Charles Aznavour and later the
same year for Gilbert Bécaud. She would go on to
record in several languages, touring the globe
including sold-out performances, in late-1978, at
Carnegie Hall in New York City.

During her career, Dalida recorded 500 French
songs, 200 of which were translated into Italian,
and 200 into other languages. She sold more than
80 million records world-wide, winning numerous
awards, scoring 55 gold records. Yet, despite her
fame and fortune, her personal life was difficult
and filled with much drama and tragedy. In 1961
she married her mentor Lucien Morisse, but the
marriage lasted only a few months when she left
him for the painter Jean Sobieski (later the
father of American actress Leelee Sobieski). A few
years later, her still distraught ex-husband died
of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In 1967 her new lover, the Italian singer, Luigi
Tenco also took his own life and Dalida too
attempted suicide. She was living with the
flamboyant and less than reputable, Richard
Chanfray (referred to as the Count of St
Germain|Comte de St Germain) when he took his own
life in July 1983. She recovered from these
tragedies and continued to perform but by her own
accounts, life had little meaning and she spent
years searching for personal fulfillment,
including traveling to Nepal to study the Hindu
religion.



On May 3, 1987 she died as a result of an overdose
of sleeping pills leaving behind a suicide note
that said: "Life has become unbearable ... forgive
me."

Dalida is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre,
Paris, her gilded life-size statue one of the most
outstanding of the many sculpted works in the
famous cemetery.

In 1997, the angle of the rues Girardon and
Abreuvoir in the Butte Montmartre in Paris was
inaugurated as "Place Dalida" and is where a
life-size bust was erected to her memory. In 2001,
the French government honored her memory with her
image on a List of people on stamps of
France|postage stamp.

==Filmography==
* Joseph and his brothers - (1954) with Omar
Sharif
* The mask of Toutankhamon - (1954)
* Sigara we Kass /A glass and a cigarette - (1954)
* Brigade des moeurs - (1957)
* Rapt au deuxième bureau - (1958)
* Parlez moi d'amour - (1960) 
* L'inconnue de Hong Kong - (1963) with Serge
Gainsbourg
* Ménage à l'Italienne - (1965)
* Io to amo - (1968)
* Comme sur des roulettes - (1977)
* Dalida pour toujours - (documentary, 1977)
* Le sixième jour / The Sixth Day - (1986) -
Youssef Chahine

==Her hit/best songs from all over the world
(1956-1987)==
* (Manuel Benitez) El Cordobes (1966)
* À ma manière (1980)
* À qui? (1967)
* Aghani Aghani (1982)
* Am tag als der Regen Kam (1959/1982)
* Americana (1981)
* Amore Scusami (1964)
* Amoureuse de la vie (1977)
* Anima Mia (1974)
* Aranjuez la tua voce (1967)
* Avant de te connaître (1970)
* Avec le temps (1971)
* Bambino (1956)
* Bang Bang (1966)
* Besame Mucho (Embrasse-moi) (1976)
* Buenas Noches mi Amor (1957)
* C'est mieux comme ça (Le Parrain 2) (1975)
* C'était mon ami (1984)
* Captain Sky (1977)
* Chanteur des années 80 (1980)
* Chaque instant de chaque jour (1964)
* Ciao Amore, Ciao (1967)
* Ciao, Ciao Bambina (1959)
* Come Prima (Tu me donnes) (1958))
* Comme disait Mistinguett (1979)
* Concerto pour une voix (1970)
* Confidences sur la fréquence (1982)
* Ça me fait rêver (1978) - with Bruno Guillain
* Dan Dan Dan (1968)
* Dans le bleu du ciel bleu (1958)
* Danza (1982)
* Darla Dirladada (1970)
* Et de l'amour... de l'amour (1975) - with
Richard Chanfrey as "St-Germain"
* Eux (1963)
* Femme (1983)
* Femme est la nuit (1977)
* Fini, la comédie (1981)
* Gamil El Soura (1983)
* Garde-moi la dernière danse (1961
* Génération 78 (1978) - with Bruno Guillain
* Gigi l'Amoroso (1974)
* Gigi in Paradisco (1980)
* Gondolier (1958)
* Guitare et tambourin (1958)
* Hava Naguila (1958)
* Helwa Ya Baladi (1979)
* Hene Ma Tov (1965)
* Histoire d'un amour (1957)
* Il faut danser reggae (1979)
* Il pleut sur Bruxelles (1981)
* Il Silenzio (Bonsoir mon amour) (1965)
* Il venait d'avoir 18 ans / 18 Anni / He must
have been eighteen (1973)
* Ils ont changé ma chanson (1970)
* Itsi bitsi petit bikini (1960)
* J'ai rêvé (1959)
* J'attendrai / Tornerai (1975)
* Je l'attends (1962)
* Je m'endors dans tes bras (1968)
* Je pars (1958)
* Je reviens te chercher (1967)
* Je suis malade (1973)
* Je suis toutes les femmes (1980)
* Jouez Bouzouki (1982)
* Kalimba de Luna (1984)
* L'amour et moi (1981)
* L'An 2005 (1969)
* L'Arlequin de Tolède / Arlecchino (1960)
* L'Innamorata (1984)
* L'ultimo valzer (1967)
* La chanson du Mundial '82 (1982)
* La colpa e tua (1971)
* La Danse de Zorba / La Danza di Zorba
(1965/1986)
* La leçon de Twist (1962)
* La Mamma (1975, inedit 1996)
* La Sainte Totoche (1965)
* La vie en rose (1965/1976)
* Lady d'Arbanville (1970)
* Le Flamenco (1965)
* Le jour du retour (1963)
* Le jour le plus long (1962)
* Le jour où la pluie viendra (1958/1982)
* Le Lambeth Walk / The Lambeth Walk (1978)
* Le petit bonheur (1976)
* Le petit Gonzalès (1962)
* Le promesse d'amore (1969)
* Le restaurant italien (1983)
* Le sixième jour (1986)
* Le temps d'aimer (1985)
* Le temps des fleurs (1968)
* Le Vénitien de Levallois (1985)
* Les anges noirs (1968)
* Les choses de l'amour (1971)
* Les enfants du Pirée (1960)
* Les Gitans (1958)
* Les hommes de ma vie (1986)
* Les grilles de ma maison (1967)
* Les p'tits mots (1983)
* Love in Portofino (1959)
* Lucas (1983)
* Ma vie je la chante (1974)
* Mama (1967)
* Maman, la plus belle du monde (1957)
* Marjolaine (1981)
* Mein Lieber Herr (1975)
* Milord (1960)
* Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser / Let me
dance tonight (1979)
* Mourir sur scène (1983)
* Ne lui dis pas (1975)
* Nuits d'Espagne (1961)
* Nostlagie (1981)
* Oh! Lady Mary (1969)
* Ô Sole Mio (1960)
* Parce que je ne t'aime plus (1986)
* Parle plus bas (Le Parrain) (1972)
* Parlez-moi de lui (1966)
* Paroles... Paroles... (1973) - with Alain Delon
* Petit homme (1966)
* Pour ne pas vivre seul (1972)
* Pour te dire je t'aime (1984)
* Problemorama (L'argent... l'argent...) (1979)
* Quand je n'aime plus je m'en vais (1981)
* Quand on n'a que l'amour (1957/1979)
* Quand s'arrêtent les violons (1977)
* Que sont devenues les fleurs? (1962)
* Remember... c'était loin (1977) - with Richard
Chanfrey as "St-Germain"
* Reviens-moi (1985)
* Rio do Brasil (1980)
* Romantica (1960)
* Salma Ya Salama (1977)
* Si j'avais des millions (1968)
* Soleil / Mediterraneo (1984)
* T'aimer follement (1960)
* Ta femme (1974)
* Ti Amo (Je t'aime) (1977)
* Tony (1982)
* Tu croiras (1963)
* Tu n'as pas très bon caractère (1957)
* Un po d'amore (1968)
* Une femme à quarante ans (1981)
* Vado Via (1973)
* Vedrai Vedrai (1979)
* Viva la pappa (1965)
* Voilà pourquoi je chante (1978)

==Discography (no single, no compilation)==
*1957	Son Nom Est Dalida
*1957	Miguel
*1958	Gondolier
*1958	Les Gitans
*1959	Le disque d'or de Dalida
*1959	Love in Portofino (A San Cristina)
*1960	Les enfants du Pirée
*1961	Garde-moi la dernière danse
*1961	Loin de moi
*1961	Milord (realised in Italy)
*1962	Le petit Gonzalès
*1963	Eux
*1964	Amore Scusami (Amour excuse-moi)
*1965	Il Silenzio (Bonsoir mon amour)
*1966	Pensiamoci Ogni Sera (realised in Italy)
*1967	Olympia 67 (live)
*1967	Ciao amore, ciao (realised in Italy)
*1968	Un po' d'amore (realised in Italy)
*1968	Le temps des fleurs
*1969	Canta in Italiano (realised in Italy)
*1969	Ma mère me disait
*1970	Ils ont changé ma chanson
*1971	Une vie
*1972	Olympia 71 (live)
*1972	Il faut du temps
*1973	Sings in Italian for you (realised in Italy)
*1973	Julien
*1974	Olympia 74 (live)
*1974	Manuel
*1975	Sempre piu' (realised in Italy)
*1975	J'attendrai
*1976	Coup de chapeau au passé
*1977	Femme est la nuit
*1977	Olympia 77 (live)
*1977	Pour toujours (Bande originale du film)
(soundtrack)
*1977	Salma ya salama
*1978	Génération 78 / Voilà pourquoi je chante
/ Ça me fait rêver
*1979	Dédié à toi (Monday Tuesday)
*1980	Gigi in Paradisco
*1980	Le spectacle du Palais des Sports 1980
(live)
*1981	Olympia 81 (live)
*1982	Spécial Dalida
*1982	Mondialement vôtre
*1983	Les p'tits mots
*1984	Dali
*1986	Le visage de l'amour
*1987	Tigani Bi Arab (realised in Egypt)
*1995	Comme si j'étais là... (remix album)
*1996	À ma manière (remix album)
*1997	Olympia 1959 (live inedit)
*1997	L'an 2005 (remix album)
*1998	Le rêve oriental (remix album)
*2001	Révolution 5° du nom (remix album)

==Dalida as a Disco Star==
An article will come later. For the moment, here
is the disco songs by Dalida from 1975 to 1981.
*1975   J'attendrai
*1976   Besame mucho (Embrasse-moi)
*1976   Le petit bonheur
*1976   Tu m'as déclaré l'amour
*1976   Les feuilles mortes
*1976   Amor Amore (Amour c'est tout dire)
*1976   Tico Tico
*1977   Femme est la nuit
*1977   Quand s'arrêtent les violons
*1978   Génération 78
*1978   Ça me fait rêver
*1979   Problemorama (L'argent, l'argent...)
*1979   Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser
*1979   Let me dance tonight
*1979   Va, va, va
*1980   Gigi in Paradisco
*1980   Money Money
*1980   Rio do Brasil
*1981   Americana
-disco reggae-
*1979   Il faut danser reggae

==See also==
*Best selling music artists — World's
top-selling music artists chart.

==External links==
* imdb name|name=Dalida|id=0197931