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Pia Colombo

A French singer of Italian origin, Éliane Marie Amélie Colombo, known as Pia Colombo, was born in Homblières in the Aisne region on July 6, 1934, to an emigrant Italian boilermaker father and a French mother from the north of France. Raised by her grandmother, she was reunited with her parents at the age of twelve, and discovered her artistic vocation at a ballet at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1946. Although she was destined for a career as a dancer, illness struck her and her growth stopped in adolescence. She turned to the theater, and met an English teacher and occasional autho...