* Dalida receives, for a second time, the Music Hall Bravos.

* January 4 – At Cortina d ' Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes.

* Dalida is Named Calabrian Citizen of Honour and receives the Radio Monte Carlo Oscar with Johnny Hallyday.

* Dalida receives the Music Oscar for Best Song with Charles Aznavour.

* Dalida receives the Radio Monte Carlo Oscar and the Grand Prix for best Italian song.

* Dalida receives a Music Oscar for Best Song and a first foreign award ( a " Golden Lion " in Berlin ).

In November, Dalida performed a Broadway-themed show at Carnegie Hall in New York, choreographed by Lester Wilson, who created the dance routines for John Travolta in the previous year ’ s 1977 cinema smash Saturday Night Fever.

Dalida ( 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987 ), born with the Italian name Lolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a famous singer and actress born in Egypt to Italian ( Calabrian ) parents but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti.

The organisers expected an enraged reaction due to the cancellation of the concert, but when Dalida came onstage and explained to her fans that she couldn't perform, she was met with great applause and her name echoed everywhere.

After signing a recording contract with Barclay, Dalida ’ s debut single " Madona " was promoted heavily by Morisse, and was a moderate success.

In 1961, Dalida performed a month of shows at the Olympia in Paris, with each selling out completely.

Dalida hired the hall herself, and her show was met with an impressive public response, thus forcing the world to acknowledge that a new and more powerful performer had emerged in Dalida.

Touring would follow this period of unprecedented sales, with Dalida performing in Japan, Canada and Germany.

The way Dalida shifted from a classical performer to a grave performer singing songs full of emotion ( such as " Avec le temps ", " Parlez-moi de lui " and " Darla dirladada ", amongst others ), to a Diva and pop star like figure making the stage glow with her hit dance numbers and colourful costumes and finally to a grief-stricken singer singing famous songs which announce her death ( particularly songs such as " Mourir sur Scene ", " Bravo " and " Téléphonez-moi "), Dalida showed that she was a strong-willed woman shifting with time and fashion.

On January 1967, Dalida took part to the San Remo Festival with new lover, an Italian singer, songwriter and actor Luigi Tenco.

The song he presented was " Ciao Amore Ciao " (" Bye Love, Bye "), which he sang together with Dalida.

After she broke-up with Richard Chanfray, Dalida had relationships with various anonymous men such as a sound technician, a lawyer, an Egyptian jumbo jet pilot, and lastly a French doctor named François during the period 1986-1987.

On Saturday 2 May 1987 Dalida, who was preparing a new single with two songs, decided to end her life with an overdose of barbiturates, leaving a suicide note " La vie m ' est insupportable ...

In 1997, the corner of the rue Girardon and rue de l ' Abreuvoir in the Butte Montmartre, Paris, was inaugurated as Place Dalida and a large bust in her memory was erected ( which was quickly defaced with graffiti ).

First appearing in dance clubs by the middle of the decade, ( with such hits as " The Hustle " by Van McCoy ), songstresses like Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor and Anita Ward ( in North America ); and Dalida ( in Europe ) popularized the genre and were described in subsequent decades as the " disco divas.

When Dalida signed with " Carrere " in 1978, a third 45 rpm pressing ( CA 49354 ) was made.

All four non-English sets of lyrics were also recorded by Dalida and Sandie Shaw with Shaw recording the English lyrics as well.

Dalida released " J ' attendrai ", which became a big hit in Canada and Japan, and Cerrone's early hit songs, " Love in C Minor ", " Give Me Love " and " Supernature " became major hits in the U. S. and Europe.

* 1933 – Dalida, French singer ( d. 1987 )

* May 3 – Dalida, French singer ( b. 1933 )

** Dalida, French singer ( d. 1987 )

On stage, for the first time in Paris, Ginger Rogers is surrounded by various stars including Thierry Le Luron, Dalida, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Claude Brialy, Georges Chakiris, the Village People, Zizi Jeanmaire.

Dalida performed and recorded in more than 10 languages including: French, Arabic, Italian, Greek, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish.

Iolanda Christina Gigliotti ' aka ' Dalida was born in Shubra, Cairo, Egypt.

Her family was from Serrastretta, Calabria, Italy, but lived in Egypt, where Dalida ’ s father, Pietro Gigliotti, was first violinist ( primo violino ) at the Cairo Opera House.

Dalida ’ s early life was spent in the district of Shoubra, where she attended the Scuola Tecnica Commerciale Maria Ausiliatrice, an Italian Catholic school.

In 1950, Dalida participated in the Miss Ondine beauty pageant and won the title, and shortly after began working as a model for Donna, a Cairo-based fashion house.

In 1954, at the age of 20, Dalida competed in and won the Miss Egypt pageant, and was crowned Miss Egypt.

It was about this time she adopted the name Dalila, which was soon changed to the more familiar Dalida.

Dalida collected 19 number one hit singles to her name in four languages ( French, Italian, German, and Arabic ) and has a long list of top 10, and top 20 hits in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic, and accumulated myriad top selling singles and albums largely, in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Canada, Russia, Japan, and Israel, spanning over forty years.

Dalida also had the aptitude of greeting her fans in basic Japanese.

Once during a concert in Japan, Dalida felt ill and couldn't continue to perform.

Performing the song " Étrangère au Paradis " in a variety show at Bruno Coquatrix ’ recently opened Olympia theatre, Dalida was introduced to Lucien Morisse and Eddie Barclay, who played a considerable part in launching the starlet ’ s career.

However, the release of " Bambino " in 1956 would prove to be even more triumphant – it spent 46 weeks in the French top ten and remains one of the biggest-selling singles in French history, and for its sales ( which exceeded 300, 000 copies ) Dalida was awarded her first gold disc, presented on 17 September 1957.

Dalida toured extensively from 1958 through the early 1960s, playing dates in France, Egypt, Italy, and the United States.

Her tours of Egypt, and Italy spread her fame outside of France and Dalida soon became well-known throughout Europe.