A few words about Dalida's discography...

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Yolande Gigiotti, Cairo, Egypt of Italian parents. On winning a Miss Egypt beauty contest, Gigiotti moved to Paris where she spent several fruitless months seeking work as a film actress.
Driven to sing as an intermission act in La Villa D'Este club, she impressed record industry moguls Bruno Coquatrix and Lucien Morisse (whom she would later marry). With the nom de théâtre Dalida, her second single, 'Bambino' (1961) - a UK hit for the Springfields - precipitated a run of French language smashes in a sultry style not unlike Astrud Gilberto.

Among these were vocal versions of the movie title theme of Zorba The Greek and Nini Rosso 's 1965 instrumental, 'Il Silenzio'. By then, Dalida had enjoyed around 30 chart-toppers throughout Europe but a punishing schedule of 200 engagements a year was taking its toll as a flowchart of papparazzi titbits splashed vivid and scandalous hues on her personal life. Divorced from Morisse, her liaison with singing songwriter Luigi Tenco ended with his suicide during a San Remo Song Festival.
A few weeks later, her attempted overdose of barbiturates was thwarted and, after an emotional convalescence, she was able to continue a successful career - albeit at a less strenuous pace.

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