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Yvette Guilbert (French pronunciation: [ivɛt gilbɛʁ]; born Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, 20 January 1865 – 3 February 1944) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.
Yvette Guilbert was a French singer, reciter, and stage and film actress, who had an immense vogue as a singer of songs drawn from Parisian lower-class life. Her ingenuous delivery of songs charged with risqué meaning made her famous.
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Le Fiacre, paroles et musique de Léon Xanrof 1888.Enregistré par Yvette Guilbert en 1930.Et, pour la petite histoire, Yvette Guilbert était, à Paris, la chan...
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Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, dite Yvette Guilbert, née le 20 janvier 1865 à Paris et morte le 3 février 1944 à Aix-en-Provence, est une chanteuse française de café-concert, parolière, actrice, autrice et metteuse en scène.
Yvette Guilbert, who survived an impoverished childhood to become France's most famous cabaret singer in the 1890s, delivered her melodies in a half-sung, half-spoken fashion that led critics to describe her as a diseuse (reciter, or teller of songs) rather than as a pure singer.
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Nov 25, 2016 · Yvette Guilbert - C19 French cabaret singer at Le Moulin Rouge, and Belle Époque actress. Yvette Guilbert first came to my attention at university during a course in a Fine Arts degree –...
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Yvette Guilbert (1865–1944) was a musical performer who attained iconic status in France during the final decade of the nineteenth century. She was categorised as a diseuse, a term used to describe performers who gave emphasis to the texts of songs through their delivery style of half singing/half speaking.
