Google celebrates Dalida's birthday

Mohamed Abdel Samie - Cairo

The famous Google search engine celebrated the birthday of the Egyptian-Italian artist, Dalida (17 January 1933), by changing his famous motto to cartoons depicting a series of famous singer's dresses.

In 1987, Dalida left a suicide letter in which she wrote, "forgive me, life is unbearable." Then she took an overdose of drugs to leave our world and miss him.

Her brother Orlando, the producer and writer, says that Dalida took much of Yolanda's soul and eventually got it. Yolanda is the real name of Dalida, born Yolanda Christina Gigliotti in Shubra, Egypt.

hard life
Dalida's life was harsh. Her parents migrated to Egypt at the beginning of the 20th century in search of a livelihood. Dalida, who grew up with her brothers, Orlando and Bruno, was born in an innovative musical environment, where their father Pietro worked as a violinist at the Egyptian Opera House.

But she had a small eye infection. She had two operations and had to wear glasses since she was four years old. This made her lose confidence in herself and felt very ugly, and felt that her dream of being a famous actress had become difficult. Give up her glasses, preferring not to see the world well to be ugly.

In her early years and despite her suffering in vision, Dalida was able to inspire anyone who saw her overwhelming beauty, prompting her to apply for a local beauty contest. But when her pictures of her bathing suit were stolen by her family, she had to leave it, but she still dreamed of a different life , And this life made her leave her job as a secretary to work as a model at Donna House.

In 1954, Dalida made the Egyptian Miss Egypt contest to win, opening the doors of representation and acting in a number of Egyptian films, where she played a small role in the film "Cigarette and Cass", but decided to travel to Paris to complete her career there.

The beginning of fame
In Paris, her life was very difficult and she lived on very meager savings, but she was determined to succeed. So she began to take lessons in music, worked in some nightclubs and smiled happily when she got a contract from a CD company. "Bambino" in 1956.

Dalida was fluent in a number of languages, reaching seven languages ​​in particular, and sang in more than one language, so she had an overwhelming majority in countries like Egypt, Italy and certainly France, which saw her birth as a star.

Lovers of suicide
Dalida suffered a lot and was not left to the press, and she took up the details of her private life more than once, and after the suicide of her lover Luigi Techno increased her suffering, Techno was her inspiration, although he was small, but she felt with him the love and warmth she did not feel in previous relations, After losing the San Remo Award, several months after that incident, Dalida tried suicide in 1967 but was rescued.

This was not the only suicide incident in her life. Her first husband, Lucian Morris, also committed suicide after the failure of his second marriage, and the impact of Morris' suicide on her.

Dalida was also very upset when she learned that her boyfriend and former boyfriend Richard Chanfray had committed suicide in 1983, putting her into a very severe depression, and she did not recognize herself and her surroundings.

Depression kills
Despite her artistic successes, her personal suffering continued. In the 1980s she supported the campaign of French President Mitterrand, which made the press speak of a relationship between them, leaving it all to go away.

In 1986, Dalida appeared to be recovering from depression. She accepted to be featured in Youssef Chahine's "The Sixth Day" and received very positive reactions. Despite the success of her music, the dream of acting and her first desire was still in control.

In 1987 she entered into a love affair with her doctor, a relationship that also failed and her heart seemed to have suffered so much failure. She decided to commit suicide with a large dose of painkillers on 3 May 1987. Her funeral was a solemn farewell attended by the entire Paris, Its image on a postage stamp.

She was buried in the cemetery of Montmartre in Paris, and made a statue of her on the tomb in the size of her life, which is one of the most distinguished works in the graves of celebrities, and one of the most famous Egyptian songs, "Helwa Ya Balady", "Salama Ya Salama" and "Best Nas."