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Oriana Curls talks about not being a fan of Edith Piaf when she was young…<\/p>\nOriana Curls talks about not being a fan of Edith Piaf when she was young…<\/p>\n
As I grew up my musical taste led me directly away from the music of Edith Piaf. I developed a love of what you might call ‘operatic’ voices with lots of flexibility and range, and Piaf always sounded the exact opposite. Her voice was too raw, and for me she represented a very old fashioned kind of France, a pure French Parisian clich\u00e9, with a baguette and accordion in hand – which is not cool when you\u2019re French! I was also very attracted to singing in English, and didn\u2019t pay much attention to French singers or musicians, so I didn\u2019t know much about her… Obviously, when you grow up in France you know a few of Piaf\u2019s songs, they are unavoidable, and are planted deep within everyone\u2019s subconscious. But I didn\u2019t feel any connection with her, I knew only that she had written and sung some very well known songs that everybody was supposed to love… And then I moved to London, and funnily enough, while I was working on my own projects, people started to compare me to her. They commented on my physical appearance (they pointed out that I have a natural resemblance to her that I had never noticed), my ‘vintage’ style, and the instrumentation I choose for my work. I found myself becoming more interested in her life and my connection with her as a woman: her story, her impossible love, the way she grew up. I began to see all the beauty and power of her emotions and interpretation, the gorgeous arrangements and the perfectly written songs. I also grew to love the accordion, and now I think of it as one of\u00a0the coolest instruments ever! Ha! I wanted to have some accordion in my first album (I had \u00a0also been influenced by composer Yann Tiersen). I subsequently started to add \u2018La vie en rose\u2019 to my setlist at each gig, and the rest is history. The story of my relationship with Piaf is like the story of starting to enjoy coffee or red wine at a later age – it\u2019s a bit more bitter than you are used to, and though you might need more time to understand or connect with it, when you finally get there you know you\u2019re going to love it forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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