French singer and composer Charles Dumont died.

He left life at the age of 95, Sunday night (17.11. 24) French Charles Dumont , who was also the legendary song “Non, je ne regrette rien” performed by Edith Piaf . The singer, songwriter and composer, who also worked with Delilah and Barbara Streisand, died after a long illness at his home in Paris, said his companion Florence at the French Agency. In X, French Culture Minister Rashida Dati paid tribute to “a sacred monster of the French song”. This trumpeter’s career took off at the turn of the 60s when he persuaded star Edith Piaf to perform one of his compositions. “Non, je ne regrette rien” (“No, I don’t regret anything”) has since become a typical success of “La Môme”, known around the world. “My mother brought me into the world but Edith Piaf put me into the world,” said the musician who was born in Kaor (southwest France) on March 26, 1929. “Without her, I would never have done all that I have done.” It was in 1956 when they came out of Charles Dumont’s piano, an unknown then 27-year-old musician, the notes of what would become one of the most famous French songs in the world. But the singer wasn’t sure. “Piaf had already rejected me three times, I never wanted to see her again”, Charles Dimont told the French Agency in 2018. “But Michel Voker, who wrote the lyrics, convinced me to try again in 1960. When he found out I was there, he screamed, demanding that the date be cancelled.” “We still went to her house. I played the piano piece. And… we never parted,” he said. “At that time it was very bad and this song was a resurrection.” It then begins a long-term partnership until Piaf’s death in 1963, which will create more than 30 pieces, including “Mon dieu”, “Les flonflons du bal” or “Les Amants”. “If I became an international musician, I owe it to Edith,” said Dimont, who then worked with American Barbara Streisand. “Le Mur” sung in French on the side A and its English version entitled “I’ve been Here” on side B are included in the eighth album on star, “Je m’appelle Barbra” released in 1966. As a singer, Dimont accompanies Piaf. “One night, I told her that the audience was not good. He looks right in my eyes and says: ‘ It wasn’t that bad. You were not good’. I realized then that the audience does not make success, it is what you give that works.” With Piaf’s death she retakes the microphone before she abandons the protest songs: “Let’s leave these to Americans who make them so much better!” he said. They follow album with songs where love takes the lion’s portion. By 2019 he was still appearing on stage. “When you reappear in front of an audience who sees you as he saw you 20, 30 or 40 years ago and welcomes you the same way, it makes you feel 20 years old again”, he said.