Parisian evenings are losing one of their most beautiful sparkles. Régina Zylberberg, better known as Régine, died on Sunday May 1, 2022 at the age of 92, as announced by her granddaughter, Daphné Rotcage, to AFP. “The queen of the night is leaving: closure due to a long and great careerwrites his inseparable friend Pierre Palmade in an official press release written at the request of the family. Leaving with her disco ball and her warm and reassuring banter, she had been dancing for more than 30 years in her nightclubs with stars from all over the world.“
It is true that everyone keeps in mind a certain idea of Saturday night fever when thinking about it… an every night fever, to tell the truth. In France and abroad, Régine reigned supreme over the world of the night. She had owned 22 nightclubs bearing her name, located across the globe. In Paris, mythical Chez Régine located near the Champs-Elysées, of course, but also in New York, Miami, Monte-Carlo, Rio de Janeiro, Marbella, Geneva, Montreal or Düsseldorf. The older ones had joined her to toast, dance, enjoy life, as you can see in our slideshow.
My greatest joy would be that people still listen to my songs in fifty years
“Her first name has thus become the emblem of crazy nights until the early morning, herself dancing on the floor until closing time.“, indicates the text of Pierre Palmade. Born on December 26, 1929 in Anderlecht, Belgium, Régine however had more than one string to her bow. Singer, she had interpreted the words of Serge Gainsbourg in The little papers, or those of Frédéric Botton, Françoise Sagan Barbara, Renaud and Marc Lavoine. In the cinema, she appeared in the credits of a dozen films, such as killing game by Alain Jessúa, Crooked cops by Claude Zidi or robert and robert by Claude Lelouch. “My greatest joy would be that people still listen to my songs in fifty years“, she confided to AFP in 2020. All you have to do is start the record players endlessly … until the end of the night.