Pia Colombo
A French singer of Italian origin, Éliane Marie Amélie Colombo, known as Pia
Colombo, was born in Homblières in the Aisne region on July 6, 1934, to an
emigrant Italian boilermaker father and a French mother from the north of
France. Raised by her grandmother, she was reunited with her parents at the age
of twelve, and discovered her artistic vocation at a ballet at the Théâtre du
Châtelet in 1946. Although she was destined for a career as a dancer, illness
struck her and her growth stopped in adolescence. She turned to the theater, and
met an English teacher and occasional autho...
