The month of May opened with sad news. Régine died at the age of 92, announced her granddaughter, Daphné Rotcajg, to Agence France-Presse. “Régine left us peacefully on May 1 at 11 a.m.” in the Paris region, she said. “The Queen of the Night is leaving: closure due to a long and great career”can we read in this press release written, at the request of the family, by the humorist Pierre Palmade, a close friend of Régine for many years. “Left with his disco ball and his warm and reassuring banter”, she “had danced for more than 30 years in its nightclubs the stars of the whole world”.
The former candidate of the Farm Celebrities born on December 26, 1929 in Anderlecht (Belgium), of Polish Jewish parents escaped deportation thanks to non-Jewish French people. She owned up to 22 nightclubs that bore her first name around the world, starting with the mythical “Chez Régine”, near the Champs-Elysées (initially opened rue du Four in 1956, editor’s note). His first name became like this “the emblem of crazy nights until dawn, dancing herself on the floor until closing time”according to the text of Pierre Palmade.
Also known for her qualities as a singer, Régina Zylberberg, her real name, has performed more than 250 songs, including La grande Zoa, Azzurro, Les p’tits papiers or Patchouli Chinchilla. Some of her music was created for her by icons such as Charles Aznavour, Barbara, Henri Salvador. The singer Renaud also wrote her several titles, considered that she was the “last historical representative of French song”.
She also acted in the cinema in killing game by Alain Jessúa, robert and robert by Claude Lelouch or Crooked cops by Claude Zidi.
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Adam Javal-Fauconnier