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- He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's barber shop, and later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act, becoming his mentor and lover.
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Ivo Livi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːvo ˈliːvi]; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand (French: [iv mɔ̃tɑ̃]), was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.
Jun 10, 2024 · Yves Montand (born October 13, 1921, Monsummano Alto, Italy—died November 9, 1991, Senlis, France) was a French stage and film actor and popular cabaret singer. Though considered by many to be the quintessence of worldly Gallic charm, Montand was actually born in Italy to peasants who fled to Marseille when he was two years of age to escape ...
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May 18, 2018 · Born: Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Tuscany, Italy, 13 October 1921; raised in Marseilles, France, from age two. Family: Married the actress Simone Signoret, 1951 (died 1985), stepdaughter (adopted following Signoret's death): the actress Catherine Allégret; son with Carole Amiel: Valentin.
Yves Montand. Wars have the capacity to make or break an artistic life. For Yves Montand, World War II achieved both of these extremes. When the Nazis began their conquest of Europe in 1939, Montand was following a slow but steady rise to fame through his singing.
Nov 10, 1991 · Yves Montand, the French actor and singer whose political views and passionate affairs stirred as much controversy as his film roles and songs won him popularity, died near Paris today.
Sep 6, 2019 · In 1921, he was born Ivo Livi in Tuscany. Active in Italy’s Communist party, his father was forced to move his family to France two years after Ivo’s birth when Mussolini came into power. The family settled in Marseilles, where Ivo grew up in poverty.
He was born Ivo Livi on 13 October 1921, in the Italian village of Monsummano Alto, near to Florence, the youngest of three children. His father was a miltant communist and, to escape persecution from the fascist regime in Ialy, the family was forced to flee to Marseilles in the south of France.
