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Yves Montand

The Italian-French singer and actor Yves Montand was born Ivo Livi in Italy but moved to France at the age of two with his parents to escape the unwanted attention of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime (the singer's father, Giovanni Livi, was a communist). Montand spent his formative years in Marseille where he started his show business career as a music hall singer before being discovered by the French singing legend Édith Piaf when he was 23. He joined Piaf's stage show and progressed to being an international singing star. His smooth style led to him being one of the leading...