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Biografie van de kunstenaar Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian Armenian Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան Paris France 22 May 1924 - 1 October 2018 Was A French-Armenian Singer Lyricist Actor Public Activist And Diplomat. Aznavour Was Known For His Unique Tenor Voice Clear And Ringing In Its Upper Reaches With Gravelly And Profound Low Notes. In A Career Spanning Over 70 Years He Recorded More Than 1 200 Songs Interpreted In Eight Languages. For Himself And Others He Has Written Or Co-Written More Than 1 000 Songs. He Was One Of France's Most Popular And Enduring Singers. He Has Sold 180 Million Records And Has Been Dubbed France's Frank Sinatra While Music Critic Stephen Holden Has Described Aznavour As "French Pop Deity." He Was Also Arguably The Most Famous Armenian Of His Time. In 1998 Aznavour Was Named Entertainer Of The Century By CNN And Users Of Time Online From Around The Globe. He Was Recognized As The Century's Outstanding Performer With Nearly 18% Of The Total Vote Edging Out Elvis Presley And Bob Dylan.
Aznavour Has Sung For Presidents Popes And Royalty As Well As At Humanitarian Events. In Response To The 1988 Armenian Earthquake He Founded The Charitable Organization Aznavour For Armenia Along With His Long-Time Friend Impresario Levon Sayan. In 2009 He Was Appointed Ambassador Of Armenia To Switzerland As Well As Armenia's Permanent Delegate To The United Nations At Geneva. On 24 August 2017 Aznavour Was Awarded The 2 618th Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame. On 17 September 2018 His Last Concert Took Place In NHK Hall Tokyo. Charles Aznavour Died On 1 October 2018. Charles Aznavour Was Perhaps The Best-Known French Music Hall Entertainer In The World -- Renowned The World Over For The Bittersweet Love Songs He Has Written And Sung Which Seem To Embody The Essence Of French Popular Song And Also For His Appearances On Screen In Such Wildly Divergent Fare As Shoot The Piano Player Candy And The Tin Drum. His Status As The Quintessential French Popular Culture Icon Is Something Of An Irony For A Man Who Identifies Himself Most Closely With His Armenian Heritage. His Father Was A Singer And Sometime-Restaurateur While His Mother Was An Actress And Part-Time Seamstress. His Father's Singing Done In A Notably Impassioned Style Heavily Influenced Aznavour's Approach To Singing As A Boy. Although He Had A Voracious Appetite For Music He Also Had A Serious Impediment Growing Up In The Form Of A Paralyzed Vocal Cord That Gave His Voice A Raspy Quality. He Channeled Some Of His Energy Into Theater Making Both His Stage And Screen Debuts At Age Nine In 1933 In The Theater Piece Un Bon Petit Diable And In The Film La Guerre Des Gosses. As An Adolescent He Danced In Nightclubs And Sold Newspapers As Well As Touring With Theatrical Companies And He Wrote A Nightclub Act In Partnership With Pierre Roche -- Aznavour Wrote The Lyrics To Their Songs And It Was Through That Material That He Began His Singing Career. Early On He Learned To Overcome His Fears About His Vocal Limitations In Part With Help From Singing Legend Édith Piaf For Whom He Worked As A Chauffeur Among Other Capacities With Her Help He Developed A Style That Suited His Capabilities And Played To His Strengths And Also Continued Writing Songs In Earnest Some Of Which Were Performed By Piaf. His Success Came Very Slowly However. Aznavour At First Found Some Difficulty Being Accepted As A Composer In France Or Anywhere Else. His Compositions Although Considered Tame By Any Modern Standard Were Regarded As Too Risqué For French Radio And Were Banned From The Airwaves For A Decade Or More From The Late '40s Through The End Of The 1950s American Publishers Seemed Equally Reticent About Them As He Discovered On A Visit To New York In 1948. That Trip Did Yield His First Performing Engagement In The City However At The Cafe Society Downtown In Greenwich Village. For The Next Decade Aznavour Made His Living As A Performer In Second-Tier Clubs And Middle- Or Bottom-Of-The-Bill Berths On Three Continents. His Mix Of Daringly Original And Frank Love Songs Coupled With A Limited But Very Expressive Singing Style Left Audiences Somewhat Bewildered At First. His Breakthrough Came In 1956 During A Vaudeville Engagement In Casablanca Where The Audience Reaction Was So Positive That Aznavour Was Moved To Headliner Status. After This It Became Easier For The Singer To Find Better Engagements In France By 1958 He Even Had A Recording Contract. He Made His Screen Debut That Same Year In A Dramatic Role Playing An Epileptic In George Franju's La Tête Contre Les Murs. He Also Composed Music For Alex Joff's Du Rififi Chez Les Femmes In 1958 From There He Moved On To Bigger Roles In Better Movies Including Jean Cocteau's Testament Of Orpheus And Francois Truffaut's Shoot The Piano Player. The Latter Movie Turned Aznavour Into A Screen Star In France And Opened The Way For His Breakthrough In America. He Sang At Carnegie Hall In The Early '60s And Followed This Up In 1965 With A One-Man Show The World Of Charles Aznavour At The Ambassador Hotel In New York Which Drew Rave Notices From Audiences And Critics Alike. By That Time The Once-Struggling Singer Had Secured His First American LP Release With The Similarly Titled Album The World Of Charles Aznavour On Reprise Records The Label Founded And Run By Frank Sinatra. Aznavour Would Be The Last To Compare Himself With Those Whom He Regards As Truly Gifted Vocalists Such As Sinatra And Mel Tormé Preferring To Think Of Himself As A Composer Who Also Happens To Sing. His Style Of Performing Has Been Compared Variously To Maurice Chevalier And Sinatra And Has Remained Enduringly Popular For Four Decades. Almost All Of Aznavour's Songs Deal With Love And Its Permutations Running The Gamut From Upbeat Joyous Pieces Such As Après L'amour And J'ai Perdu La Tête To The Dark-Hued J'en Déduis Que Je T'aime And Bon Anniversaire. A Teetotaler And A Racing Car Enthusiast Aznavour Has Been Married Three Times And Has Four Children.

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