Has the Hymn to Love found its place again? While the controversy has grown around the participation of Aya Nakamura in the Paris Olympics, the heirs of Edith Piaf, Catherine Glavas and her sister Christie Laume have given their opinions about the choice of the singer. They also revealed that they had been contacted for rights to two songs.
The month of March was punctuated by the controversy surrounding the possible participation of singer Aya Nakamura in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. While the newspaper The Express had revealed that the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron had met the 28-year-old singer to set up the terms of this participation and that she was probably performing one of the pieces by the emblematic Édith Piaf, many Internet users, but also politicians had expressed disagreement.
Targeted by the far-right movement, the singer was the victim of a wave of racist insults as well as hateful excesses on social networks. After weeks of controversy and the rise of many of her supporters, Aya Nakamura, for her part, has not yet given any interview, nor has she spoken publicly on this matter. The most listened to French artist in the world and in France has only reacted twice on her X account (ex-Twitter).
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Edith Piaf’s sisters-in-law and heirs say what they think about the controversy
If the two women have been discreet for decades, Catherine Glavas and Christie Laume, the sisters of the singer’s last husband and heir to Edith Piaf, ensure that the artist’s image is preserved. It is in this context that the magazine The Parisian contacted them to get their opinion on all the controversy surrounding the Paris Olympics and Aya Nakamura. Very happy that the opening ceremony of this great event will take place on one of Edith Piaf’s songs, they confirm that they are in agreement with the choice of the Franco-Malian singer: “ From what I’m told, Aya Nakamura will sing and the president chose her. She certainly has talent. She is also very successful in the world.» Confirms Catherine Glavas.
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Same story with her sister, Christie, who did not know the singer before discovering two of her biggest hits,Djadja and Pookie: “She has a pretty voice and style. Edith liked girls with personality and was very concerned about the international world. I’m very open and I think it’s an interesting idea. We live in a mixed world – I myself am of Greek origin, raised in France, Franco-American today – and it is a good idea of the French president to want to show that.»
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Two pieces by Piaf in competition
Still in the article in Le Parisien, we discover that the heiresses gave their agreement so that the pieces of La Môme “be used free of charge within the framework of the Olympic Games» before specifying that a particular request was made more than 15 days ago. “I received a request from Raoul Breton editions to use the Hymn to Love» explains Catherine Glavas before continuing: “They manage the rights to this song co-written by Edith and asked for my agreement to use it for free with a new orchestration and a singer. Without giving us a name. I obviously accepted, it’s so magnificent to open the Paris Olympics with Edith. This moves me a lot”.
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The Raoul Breton editions are not the only ones to have been contacted, this is also the case with the Beuscher editions for the title “La vie en rose“. A choice “quite logical» for the heiress of Piaf who specifies: “It’s Edith’s most famous song in the world.“.
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