Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti,professionally known as Dalida,was a French singer and actress,born in Egypt to Italian parents. Leading an international career,Dalida has sold over 140 million records worldwide. Her best known songs include "Bambino","Gondolier","Les enfants du Pirée","Le temps des fleurs","Darla dirladada","J'attendrai","Le jour oùla pluie viendra","Gigi l'amoroso","Laissez-moi danser","Salama ya salama","Helwa ya baladi",and "Paroles,paroles" featuring spoken word by Alain Delon.
Son nom est Dalida is the debut studio album by French vocalist Dalida. It was released in December 1956 through Barclay Records.
"Monday Tuesday... Laissez moi danser" is a 1979 disco single by French recording artist Dalida. It was a number-one hit and the biggest success of the disco period in France.
"Salma Ya Salama" is an Egyptian folk song by Dalida from 1976,based on the original 1919 song by Sayed Darwish. The track became one of the singer's biggest hits and a remix,released in 1997,was certified silver in France.
"Génération 78" is a song by French singer Dalida featuring French singer Bruno Guillain. It is a megamix of Dalida's previous hits,remixed in disco style,including a new piece written by Jeff Barnel that permeates throughout the song. First released on single in March 1978,it soon became #1 hit in France and achieved success in Europe and Canada.
"Gondolier" is a song by the French singer Dalida,first released on EP in December 1957. It was her second major hit after "Bambino". Reaching No. 1 on both the La Bourse des Chansons chart and the Music Hall chart in France,it was the title song for Dalida's 1958 album Gondolier. The song also reached No. 1 on the Belgian and Canadian charts.
"Les enfants du Pirée" is a French song by singer Dalida,first released on EP in June 1960. It was a big international summer hit and remained one of major successes of her career. The song comes from the Greek movie "Never on Sunday/Pote tin Kyriaki" nominated for 8 Oscars and won an Oscar for the music of Manos Hadjidakis,sung by Melina Mercouri who starred in the movie along Jules Dassin.
This album of Dalida coincided with several changes in her career:the 1970s were coming,her label was no longer Barclay Records but her brother Orlando's International Shows,and she was also changing her style to a more mature adult contemporary music. The success of this album is the proof,exemplified by the Greek folkloric summer hit "Darla dirladada","Ils ont changéma chanson," and "Lady d'Arbanville".
Une vie is an album by Dalida,which continues the adult contemporary style of her previous album and contains songs such as the Italian "Mamy blue","Avec le temps" and "Les choses de l'amour".
Olympia 71 is an album of songs by Dalida recorded live at the Olympia in Paris in 1971 and released in 1972.
Femme est la nuit is a 1977 album by Dalida.
Olympia 77 is an album of songs by Dalida recorded live at the Olympia in Paris and released in 1977.
Olympia 81 is a French-language album released in 1981 by French singer Dalida. The album was highly successful and received a gold certification.
Le visage de l'amour is the last album Dalida released a year before her death. It was also her first album to be made as a CD format. The name "Le visage de l'amour" is usually used by Dalida to describe her public and her fans,it was picked up by the big French artist Charles Trenet who decided to write a song for Dalida bearing this name. It eventually became the name of her last album.
De "Bambino" à"Il silenzio" was Dalida's first compilation album,released in France in 1967 by Barclay Records
"Le temps des fleurs" is a song by French singer Dalida for her twenty-first studio album of the same name. While the French lyrics were written by Eddy Marnay,the melody was taken from Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu",composed by Boris Fomin in 1924. Dalida covered the song after Mary Hopkin had a hit with her English version "Those Were the Days" one month earlier.
The repertoire of the Italian-French singer Dalida includes no less than 700 songs that have led her to record in 11 languages.
"The Day the Rains Came" or "Am Tag als der Regen kam" or "La pioggia cadrà" is an adaptation of the French song "Le jour oùla pluie viendra". The latter is a popular song released in 1957,composed and written by Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë.
Love in Portofino is the sixth and last studio album of 1950s by French singer Dalida. It was released in December 1959 through Barclay Records.
"Dans la ville endormie" is a French language song recorded by singer Dalida,first released on EP during summer of 1968. It is the product of Dalida's collaboration with composer William Sheller with whom she worked on Le temps des fleurs,her album released later that year. English language cover "My year is a day" by Les Irrésistibles achieved success several months later.
