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Marcel Amont

Real name Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar Miramon, the successful singer Marcel Amont, whose career spanned seventy years, was born in Bordeaux on April 1, 1929. He moved to Paris in 1950, performing in cabarets and opening for Philippe Clay. A singer and fantasist, a stage performer noted for his acrobatics, he had his first success in 1956 with the song "Escamillo", and was chosen by Edith Piaf for a five-week curtain-raiser at the Olympia. Revealed to the general public and honored by the Académie Charles-Cros, he appeared in La Mariée est trop belle (1956), and went on to score ...