Dalida's life story, how she ended her life at the top after the three men she loved committed suicide

In 1955, director Niazi Mustafa chose her to play the role of nurse Yolanda in the movie “A Cigarette and a Cup” starring Faten Hamama and Siraj Mounir. After that, Dalida decided to immigrate to France; To professionalize singing and achieve great fame.

After 31 years, Dalida returns to Egyptian cinema again with international director Youssef Chahine in the movie "The Sixth Day", and embodied in it the starring role of the character "Sedika" and the role was a great challenge for Dalida, and she succeeded in it and proved her great acting talent by embodying the character of the Egyptian farmer who fears over the life of her grandson.

Dalida songs

Roland Burger discovered Dalida's talent, as he was working as a "voice coach" and tried to convince her to sing, and to stay away from acting because she had a wonderful voice.

Indeed, she was convinced and Burger gave her singing lessons, and she began singing in nightclubs, then opened the doors of fame for her and sang more than 1000 songs.

Dalida is also considered a comprehensive artist who has provided singing and acting over her artistic life that spanned 33 years. Her lyrical record amounts to more than 1000 songs that she recorded in nine languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish and 4 films.

Sometimes the same song was recorded in two different languages, as it did in 1977 when the Egyptian song “Salma Ya Salama” was presented in French and Arabic.

Dalida's song Sweet Ya Baladi is one of the most prominent songs that Dalida sang throughout her artistic career, and she also has other songs in several languages, including J'Attendrai, Bambino and Avec Le Temp.

 Dalida's life story

Despite her fame and fortune, her private life was like a tragic play from the beginning of her marriage to its end.

She married the first man she truly loved, Lucien Morisse, but they separated after only a few months of marriage.

Although their love was the talk of society at the time, each of them declared to others that he was in love with the other and could not live without him; Because he is the love of his life and so on.

The reason for the separation was after Dalida found her true love after she believed that her love was the one whom she married, and the man for whom Dalida left her husband was the painter Jean Sobieski.

A few years after her divorce, her first husband, Lucien, shot himself after his failed second marriage and his attempts to regain his love for her.

In the year 1967, love entered Dalid's heart again when she met an Italian young man named Luigi Tenco, who was a singer who was still in the beginning of his path.

Dalida supported him to become a star, but failure knocked on his door after his participation in the San Remo Festival in 1967.

Then he committed suicide with his pistol in a hotel, and the unfortunate thing is that Dalida was the first to see his body lying and covered in blood, when she went to console him for not being appreciated at the festival.

And when she managed to forget the past, she fell in love with a man in the seventies, but he too died by suicide.

In 1973, Dalida released the song "Il venait d'avoir dix-huit ans", which in Arabic means "Lour has reached 18 years of age".

In this song, Dalida tells about her relationship with a younger student, which led to an unplanned pregnancy.

A love affair between Dalida and her student

According to Dalida's brother, producer Orlando, who spoke about it publicly, Dalida was 34 years old at the time of the relationship while the student was 22 years old.

The singer miscarried her pregnancy, at a time when abortion was illegal in France and Italy, and this move led to her inability to have children, and her severe feeling of loneliness, which affected her psychologically.

The cause of the death of singer Dalida

The death of singer Dalida on May 3, 1987 in Paris came as shocking news for her fans, as she committed suicide after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

And she left a short message asking for forgiveness from her fans, while no one knows why the singer Dalida committed suicide.

Dalida was buried in the Montmartre neighborhood in Paris, where she moved in 1962.

There, the French sculptor Aslan completed a life-size statue of the singer to be placed on her tombstone, which is easily identifiable in the Montmartre cemetery.