Talk:Dalida
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[edit] Personal life
Someone deleted the whole section about her personal life. Luigi Tenco isn't mentioned anywhere, and he had very much impact on her life. Please someone restore it.
She was not an Egyptian singer, though she was born in Cairo, she did not consider herself, not did the egyptian government consider her Egyptian. Her family were expatriats, certainly not Egyptians. In those days, forigners in colonized countries did not consider themselves to be of the native country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.122.226.58 (talk) 17:08, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Gay Icon Project
In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:24, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Official Dalida web site
I am trying to link the official web site, but it is blocked by the antispam system. does anybody know why? is it justified? and if not what to do ?
[edit] Dalida as a New Wave music / Synth Pop singer ????
My knowledge of Dalida's music is quite limited, but I'm sure she has never ever done anything that could be classified as "New Wave music". Even the classification as a “Synth Pop" singer sounds really absurd to me (as far as I know, most of her stuff released in the 80s was still disco). Can I delete this whole section or does anybody know how to rename it?
It also seems to me that this whole list is incorrect, e.g. "Le Jour où la pluie viendra" was recorded in 1957 and not in 1982 (maybe it was re-recorded in the 80s, but if this is the case, it has to be clarified)! And there is already a HUGE (much too long, IMHO) list of songs earlier on. So where's the point of adding just another list of songs?
--Panoramastitcher 17:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] selling
In this article it says she won 55 golden records at the beginning, then they become more tahn 70... on this other article it is said she sold 70 million records, not 150, quite a diffence, hum....--Sailko 13:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] her arabic
the article says that she was fluent in arabic when she was just conversant; meaning she could carry out a conversation in arabic but she preferred to do interviews in Egypt in either french or english. -Mokha —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.171.33.226 (talk) 04:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Disambiguation
I found an album by "Dalida" from 2006 on Itunes. Someone posted a comment berating Itunes for attaching Yolanda Gigliotti's biography to this particlar Dalida. The samples I heard were pretty good traditional sounding Arabic music. It seems pretty clear this is a different Dalida. So, there should probably be a disambiguation link to Wikipedia's Dalida article directing people to a biography of the other Dalida. 76.166.30.132 18:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merger
Yes to merging An obvious merger since Olympia 74 has no text at all,,,just a track list. Decoratrix 14:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dalida Laissez Moi 2.JPG
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BetacommandBot 05:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dalida's nationality
There are several sources that state that Dalida has kept Italian citizenship while she lived in Egypt, so she was never Egyptian. example
And why is she categorized in "Italian-French people" ? Purple Rose 13:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Probably because she was most famous in France and Italy, while she spent most of her life in France, she was still of Italian origins and was most prominent in those two countries. 62.48.118.87 (talk) 01:08, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, so what was her nationality, anyway? Egyptian, Italian or French? Did she change it? Because just being famous in France doesn't make you French... the French wikipedia says she's Italian, the Italian wikipedia says she's French, this English wikipedia says she's Egyptian and yet categorizes her as a French person as well... Purple Rose (talk) 17:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes, but unless we are retarded racialists, spending her *life* in France and getting French citizenship makes her very French. So the foreign-born arabs in France or Italy, with a citizenship, are not French or Italian because their blood is not? That is stupid if you ask me. She was born in Egypt, with Italian roots, lived in France. She has three cultures. How hard is that to get? Do we have to spend our lives on petty fights to claim her for our own country? The article should simply mention her citizenship(s), and mention her life story, which it does. Italian/Egyptian/French. Come on, grow up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.23.2 (talk) 00:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well said. Why don't we write something along the lines of "born in Egypt to Italian parents, spent the most part of her adult life in France, gaining French citizenship in 19xx,,,,"? Or something like that. Dollvalley (talk) 22:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oh that was done already, however writing "singer" twice there sounds terribly wrong.
Also, what is that Arabic pop singers box at the bottom??? The amount of material she has recorded in Arabic is inexistant compared to her French one (it barely fills a single cd), if one box get put there to group her than it should be the French one! Dollvalley (talk) 22:32, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Dalida was certainly not an Egyptian, you are all not taking into account the colonial attitudes at the time. An Italian living in Egypt would never have considered themselves as Egyptian, They had too much pride. It was a different time, Mussolini was in power for god sakes! She was not even an Egyptian citizen. She was an Italian , born and raised in Egypt. It's all very nice to apply the politically correct thinking of today by calling Dalida an Egyptian, but she would have never considered herself as such. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.122.226.58 (talk) 20:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
