Pia Colombo

Background

Her father was from Milan and her mother came from the Nord.

Career

She was compared to Édith Piaf and was believed to be her successor when she died in 1963 but Colombo was too intellectual for the taste of the general public. In the 1960 decade she acted in the productions of Roger Planchon of Bertolt Brecht"s works. She acted in the Popular National Theatre, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Châtelet Olympia of Paris, Bobino, Festival d"Avignon and popularised the songs of Léo Ferré.

Colombo died of cancer with 51 years old and her body is buried in the Cemetery of the Père-Lachaise of Paris.

Pia Colombo – À Casa d"Irène (1964–1965) Pia Colombo – Florilège (1959–1971) Pia Colombo – Le bal de quartier (1959–1962) Pia Colombo – Le Mauvais Larron (1957–1964) Pia Colombo – Tique Taque (1959–1960) Pia Colombo – Le métèque (1967–1969) Pia Colombo – Adagio Nocturne (1971) Pia Colombo – Chante Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill (1969).

Achievements

• Coq d"Or of the chanson française 1959: Them flonflons du bal. Prix of l"Académie Charles-Cros of the Chanson (1969).