- Birthday
- 1934-07-06
- Deathday
- 1986-04-16
- Place of Birth
- Homblières, Aisne, France
Pia Colombo
ActingBiography
Pia Colombo (6 July 1934, in Homblières, Aisne, France – 16 April 1986) was a French singer of Franco-Italian origin, been born Eliane Marie Amélie Pia Colombo who acted in radio, cinema and television between 1956 and 1981. Her father was from Milan and her mother came from the Nord. She was compared to Édith Piaf and was believed to be her successor when Piaf died in 1963 but Colombo was too intellectual for the taste of the general public. Politically committed, Colombo was a big interpreter of the work of her husband, the composer Maurice Fanon, and of Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Ge...
