Piaf vs Brel - the poll

[Brockway]

voice that was once described by her friend, the poet Jean Cocteau, as like "being swept away on a wave of black velvet".

She also had the drink/morhpine/doomed love aspect

Cocteau was briefly the manager of world champion boxer Panama Al Brown.

I think her voice is idiosyncratic rather than "velvet". I've been to Piaf's grave but Brel, I think, is buried on Tahiti or somewhere equally exotic.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

I've been to Piaf's grave but Brel, I think, is buried on Tahiti or somewhere equally exotic.

when Brel was dying of lung cancer, he went to live in some pacific island.

 

[Baron Samedi]

when Brel was dying of lung cancer, he went to live in some pacific island.

Piaf grave

Brels Grave