Known for composing the immortal "Non, je ne regrette rien" for Edith Piaf,
Charles Dumont has worked with other artists of international stature, and also
led a career as a performer in love with the French language. Born in Cahors,
Lot, on March 26, 1929, he fell in love with jazz thanks to Louis Armstrong, and
learned to play the trumpet while beginning to compose songs with lyricist
Michel Vaucaire for his wife Cora Vaucaire. A bar pianist in Paris, he passed
the Sacem competition and was hired by Philips, which placed his compositions
with Marie José, Dalida, Maria Candido a...