Dalida: she achieved everything except happiness (6 photos + 1 video)

During her lifetime she became a legend and an icon of the world chanson. Italian born in Egypt in the family of a seamstress and the first violin of Cairo operas.





The girl studied at the most ordinary school and most likely even did not think about world fame. After receiving the certificate, Dalida went work as a secretary for a pharmaceutical company. But once her photo in the swimsuit was in a local magazine and the girl was offered to try their strength in a beauty contest.



In youth

The audition ended with the fact that at the age of 21 Dalida became Miss Egypt, and then her fiancé left her, breaking off the engagement. Beauty contest win gave a lot, because they were visited by the heads of film companies who were looking for beautiful girls. Angelina Jolie and Milla Jovovich came to the cinema with podium.

Dalida starred in several films and moved to Paris. This was in 1954, just when the brightest representatives of French New Wave.



Young Delilah

But Dalida had an accent that got her rejected directors and producers. Friends advised me to try myself as a singer and This is where her career began to take shape. The first disc was a failure but the song Bambino, recorded by a young singer in 1956, hit the Top 10 that made her a real star.

She was offered a contract in the US, but Dalida refused to move, preferring to stay in France.



Dalida and Alain Delon

In 1982, she was the number 2 woman among the most influential women of France. The first was the president's wife. It's interesting that an Egyptian-born Italian became an established Frenchwoman. After all it was there that she achieved recognition and became one of the most famous symbols of Paris.



That's just the end of the life of the favorite of millions was very bitter.

At 54, Dalida took a huge dose of sleeping pills and drank his whisky. She died. She had everything - success, recognition, fame. All, except for love.

She did not meet in her life, the one whom she would love for real. And who could handle such deafening fame. Was one short marriage, but in the end Dalida was left alone. It's that sacrifice so often brought in exchange for the love of millions.



The song Mourir sur scene has an incredibly sad lyrics that supposedly predicted the future of Dalida.

My life was on fire

So many lights

I can't leave unnoticed

I want to die.