Dalida - Besame Mucho [Paris Filter 2001 Mix]
From Album: "Dalida ~ The Queen".
Dalida (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987) was an Egyptian Italian singer born and raised in Egypt. She lived most of her adult life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc.
She was born Yolande Gigliotti, the daughter of Italian parents living in Cairo. The family lived a comfortably middle-class life until the outbreak of the Second World War; Egypt came into the war on the side of the Allies and her father, because of his Italian nationality, spent four years in an internment camp. Yolande Gigliotti attended a religious school and studied stenography, intending to lead a nondescript life as an office worker — by the time she was 17, however, she had blossomed into a beautiful young woman, and began entering talent and beauty competitions. In 1954, the same year that she won the title of Miss Egypt, she made her first screen appearance in an Egyptian production entitled Sigarah Wa Kas, directed by Niazi Mostafa. She began using the name "Dalila," owing to her resemblance to Hedy Lamarr in the costume epic Samson and Delilah, and this was later in France altered to Dalida. ~ Read more info from Wiki…
