Monday, October 1, 2018

Charles Aznavour, Master Of The Chanson, And Also Composer And Film Star, Has Died At 94

It’s nearly impossible to sum up the life of a man who toured as an international musician for almost 80 years, but here’s just a bit. “His accomplishments were prodigious: He wrote, by his own estimate, more than 1,000 songs, for himself and for others, and sang them in French, Armenian, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish. He sold well over 100 million records in his lifetime. He appeared in more than 60 films, beginning with bit parts as a child.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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