BIOGRAPHY :
Dalida, whose real name is Yolanda Gigliotti, was born on 17 January 1933 in Cairo (Egypt) from parents of Italian origin. His father, first violin at the Cairo Opera House, gives her daughter a love of music. But that's the model that Dalida became known. Miss Egypt 1954, it then turns in a few films of series B and then settled in Paris in the hope of a career in film. It will soon review its ambitions and abandon the profession as an actress to become a singer. It was spotted by Bruno Coquatrix when she sings in a cabaret and it presents Lucien Morisse, the program director of Europe 1. The charm of Latin Dalida operates Lucien Morisse immediately (it will Dalida married from 1956 to 1961) will offer to save the title "Bambino" in 1956.

The success is amazing and the song of Dalida featured in the new fashion. It will enchainer with success in the first part of his career titles rather light, and then, gaining maturity, it will try to include in his repertoire of songs to text. Dalida not hesitate to follow the trends in music and whatever the methods, it still manages to find the inevitable hit. Singer filled his personal life is much darker. She knows many disappointments sentimentales and three of his former companions or suicide (Luigi Tenco in 1967, Lucien Morisse in 1970 and Richard Chanfray 1983). A missed abortion in 1967 to prevent having children in the future. Unfortunately, Dalida writing a word of farewell "life unbearable to me, forgive me" on 3 May 1987 before they commit suicide. It leaves a huge musical legacy that his younger brother, Orlando, manages to transmit to new generations while the talent of Dalida.