PHOTO: EAST NEWS/LEWKOWICZ WYSTAWA POSWIECONA EDITH PIAF W PARYZU

(FILES) - Picture dated September 27, 1962 of French singer Edith Piaf performing on stage in Paris. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Photo dat??e du 30 d??cembre 1960 de la chanteuse Edith Piaf sur la scA?ne de l'Olympia lors d'un r??cital. Picture dated 30 December 1960 of singer Edith Piaf on stage at the Olympia during a show in Paris.

(FILES) - Picture dated 30 December 1960 of French singer Edith Piaf with songwriter Charles Dumont in Paris. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO

(FILES) - Picture dated 30 December 1960 of French singer Edith Piaf performing on stage at the Olympia during a show in Paris. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO

(FILES) - A picture dated 30 December 1960 of French singer Edith Piaf performing on stage at the Olympia during a show in Paris. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Photo prise dans les ann??es 1960 de la chanteuse Edith Piaf, et de son dernier mari, le compositeur grec Th??o Sarapo. Edith Giovanna Gassion est n??e ?. Paris le 19 d??cembre 1915. En 1935, elle fait la connaissance de Louis Lepl??e, g??rant du Gerny's, qui l'invite ?. chanter quelques titres dans son cabaret. C'est lui qui trouve ?. Edith son surnom de M??me Piaf, pour illustrer sa petite taille. C'est ensuite Raymond Asso qui lui fait enregistrer en 1937 le c??lA?bre titre Mon l??gionnaire. Elle s'est mari??e le 09 octobre 1962 avec Th??o Sarapo. Elle est d??c??d??e le 10 octobre 1963 ?. Grasse

After a serious operation a few weeks ago, famous French singer Edith Piaf is due to leave her hospital bed in some days. As her nurse stand on side, Edith Piaf smiles towards the camera, in morning on Oct. 14, 1959 at the American hospital of Neuilly (Paris suburb). (AP Photo/G)

French Singer Edith Piaf walks away from plane on her arrival at Orly Airport, on June 21, 1959 in Paris. She is accompanied by Douglas David (left) a 30-year-old American painter who made her portrait when she was sick in hospital in New York and who will exhibit his works in Paris. (AP Photo)

Edith Piaf, singer, is shown at Cambridge House, New York City on June 19, 1959. (AP Photo/RG)

(FILES) - Undated file picture showing French singer Edith Piaf, born in Paris on December 19, 1915. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO

This is a photo of Edith Piaf singing at Versailles restaurant in New York City on October 28, 1949. The Parisian cabaret singer, who was born in 1915 as Edith Giovanna Gassion, was nicknamed Piaf, the Parisian slang for sparrow. She died in 1963. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP SPIEWACZKA EDITH PIAF I BOKSER MARCEL CERDAN PIJA W BARZE W TEATRZE "CLUB DES CINQ" PARYZ/FRANCJA 17/03/1948 La chanteuse Edith Piaf et le boxeur Marcel Cerdan trinquent au bar du th????tre du "Club des Cinq", ?. Paris le 17 mars 1948. SAPA980909812010

Marlene Dietrich, left, gives a congratulatory kiss to Edith Piaf after a performance at Playhouse Theater in New York, Oct. 30, 1947. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)

Parisian singer Edith Piaf poses aboard the Queen Elizabeth as she arrives in New York City on Oct. 16, 1947. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP EDITH PIAF Z BOKSEREM MARCELEM CERDANEM W PARYSKIEJ KAWIARNI PARYZ/FRANCJA 01/01/1947 Edith Piaf, entour??e de ses amis, dont le champion de boxe Marcel Cerdan (G), chante un de ses nombreux succA?s ?. une table de caf?? parisien en 1947.

(FILES) - Undated file picture showing French singer Edith Piaf, born in Paris on December 19, 1915. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO

(FILES) - Undated file picture showing French singer Edith Piaf, born in Paris on December 19, 1915. A new biography of Edith Piaf debunks several myths about the doyenne of post-war French music, including claims she was born on the streets, suffered from blindness and helped prisoners during World War II. AFP PHOTO