Born on the 17th January 1933 in Shoubra, Cairo, Egypt, she was the child of an opera violinist, and was given singing lessons at an early age. She developed into a beautiful young lady and, in 1954, she won the Miss Egypt beauty contest and immediately left for Paris, France, to pursue a career in motion pictures.
Despite her looks, her first films were less than successful, but she began performing in music halls and cabarets, singing in French, Italian, Arabic in which she was fluent, and other languages. Using the stage name Dalida she recorded songs; her second single titled "Bambino" brought instant fame. In 1957, she appeared at the Paris Olympia as the opening act for Charles Aznavour and later the same year for Gilbert Bécaud. She would go on to record in several languages, touring the globe including sold-out performances, in late 1978, at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
During her career, Dalida recorded 500 French songs, 200 of which were translated into Italian, and 300 into other languages. She sold more than 150 million albums world-wide, winning numerous awards, and achieving more than seventy gold records. Yet, despite her fame and fortune, her personal life was difficult and filled with much drama and tragedy. In 1961 she married her mentor Lucien Morisse, but the marriage lasted only a few months, and she left him for the painter Jean Sobieski (later the father of American actress Leelee Sobieski). A few years later, her still distraught ex-husband died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In 1967 her new lover, the Italian singer, Luigi Tenco also took his own life, and Dalida too attempted suicide. She was living with the flamboyant and less than reputable Richard Chanfray (referred to as the Comte de St Germain) when he took his own life in July 1983. She recovered from these tragedies and continued to perform, but by her own accounts, life had little meaning and she spent years searching for personal fulfillment, including traveling to Nepal to study the Hindu religion.
She died on the 3rd May 1987 as a result of an overdose of sleeping pills, leaving behind a suicide note that said: "Life has become unbearable ... forgive me."
2) A mononym of a young Lebanese singer living in Kuwait. She released two albums, "Tedalal" (2005) and "Eltegaina" (2008) and she filmed 3 video clips "Wadel Ma'i", "Haram" & "Eltegaina".
3) Back from the dead in Moselle (France), DALIDA is reborn, her squint is now a blindness and her voice a strident groan.
Obsessed by Krautrock band alienating repetitions, she modifies her repertoire, no more poignant songs, she's now exploring the sonic transe.
« Nobody have to steal our own death, it's a part of our life, that's why it's really important to live this moment »
Terrestrial incarnation : Klaus Legal and DaiKiRi (members of Le Singe Blanc, Judas Donneger, La Race, Myster Möebius...)
Captain Sky
Dalida Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Les hommes savaient qu'ils allaient être détruits
Et pourtant ils se comportaient comme des hommes
Et se réfugiaient dans les cavernes
Contre les Extra-Terrestres
Ils avaient envoyé la seule arme dont ils disposaient
Des milliers et des milliers d'enfants en rangs serrés
Qui avançaient en chantant doucement
Ils sont arrivés à travers les nuages
Scintillant comme une averse de soleil d'acier
Une flamme rouge au fond du paysage
Pour détruire la terre et l'homme qui l'a possédée
Mais quand le fameux Capt'ain Sky
A vu ces yeux d'enfants
Se lever par milliers, pleins de rêve et d'amitié
Il ne sait plus ce qu'il doit faire de son arme
S'en servir ou la jeter, sa main hésite encore
Mais le plus petit des enfants le regarde
D'un sourire à désarmer le plus grand le plus fort
Et le terrible Capt'ain Sky
Lui dis je ne peux pas
Faire de mal à des milliers d'enfants innocents comme toi
Et les envahisseurs ont rejoint leur planète
Saluant les enfants qui leur faisaient la fête
Mais les hommes ont recommencé
A se battre sur la terre
Des hommes d'ailleurs des milliers d'enfants
Sur une colline, ont fait le printemps
Et pendant qu'ils vivaient la plus belle histoire du monde
Les hommes d'ici qui n'ont rien compris
Ont recommencé à s'entre-tuer.
"Captain Sky" by Dalida tells the story of an unidentified flying object heading towards Earth, and humanity's response to it. Despite knowing they were going to be destroyed, the humans put up a fight against the aliens and sought refuge in caves. They sent the only weapon they had - thousands of children marching forward in tight rows, singing softly.
When the aliens finally arrived, they shone like steel rain, and their presence meant the destruction of Earth and man. But Captain Sky, upon seeing the thousands of innocent children, couldn't bring himself to use his weapon against them. Even the smallest child disarmed him with a smile, and he couldn't bear to harm them. The aliens eventually left the planet, but the humans continued to fight and kill each other.
The song is a reflection of humanity's constant cycles of war and violence. Despite the looming threat of destruction, we continue to fight and harm each other, blinded by our own weaknesses and misunderstandings. The only thing that can save us is innocence, symbolized by the children in the song, with their dreams and friendships.
Line by Line Meaning
Alerte...Alerte Objet non identifié en direction de la terre
People knew they were going to be destroyed and yet they acted like humans, taking refuge in caves against the Aliens who sent the only weapon they had: thousands of tightly packed children advancing while singing softly
Ils sont arrivés à travers les nuages
The Aliens arrived shining like a shower of steel sunlight, with a red flame in the background, to destroy the Earth and those who possessed it
Pour détruire la terre et l'homme qui l'a possédée
The Aliens arrived to destroy the Earth and its inhabitants
Mais quand le fameux Capt'ain Sky A vu ces yeux d'enfants Se lever par milliers, pleins de rêve et d'amitié
When Captain Sky saw the eyes of thousands of children rise up filled with dreams and friendship, he didn't know what to do with his weapon - to use or to dispose of it - as he hesitated with it in his hand
Et le terrible Capt'ain Sky Lui dis je ne peux pas Faire de mal à des milliers d'enfants innocents comme toi
Captain Sky decided he could not harm thousands of innocent children like the one who looked up at him and disarmed him with his smile
Et les envahisseurs ont rejoint leur planète Saluant les enfants qui leur faisaient la fête
The Aliens returned to their planet after greeting the children who celebrated their departure
Mais les hommes ont recommencé A se battre sur la terre
But the men on Earth started fighting again
Des hommes d'ailleurs des milliers d'enfants Sur une colline, ont fait le printemps Et pendant qu'ils vivaient la plus belle histoire du monde Les hommes d'ici qui n'ont rien compris Ont recommencé à s'entre-tuer.
Men from elsewhere and thousands of children made spring flourish on a hill, living the most beautiful story in the world. But the men from here, who didn't understand, resumed killing each other.
Contributed by Luke G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Dhrian ARMY
Lyrique:
" Alerte…Alerte, objet non identifié en direction de la terre "
"Les hommes savaient qu'ils allaient être détruits
Et pourtant ils se comportaient comme des hommes
Et se réfugiaient dans les cavernes
Contre les Extra-Terrestres
Ils avaient envoyé la seule arme dont ils disposaient
Des milliers et des milliers d'enfants en rang serré
Qui avançaient en chantant doucement"
Ils sont arrivés à travers les nuages
Scintillants comme une averse de soleil d'acier
Une flamme rouge au fond du paysage
Pour détruire la terre et l'homme qui l'a possédée
Mais quand le fameux Capt'ain Sky
A vu ces yeux d'enfants
Se lever par milliers, pleins de rêves et d'amitié
Il ne sait plus ce qu'il doit faire de son arme
S'en servir ou la jeter, sa main hésite encore
Mais le plus petit des enfants le regarde
D'un sourire a désarmé le plus grand, le plus fort
Et le terrible Capt'ain Sky
Lui dit : "Je ne peux pas
Faire de mal à des milliers d'enfants innocents comme toi !"
Et les envahisseurs ont rejoint leur planète
Saluant les enfants qui leur faisaient la fête
Mais les hommes ont recommencé
À se battre sur la terre
Des hommes d'ailleurs, des milliers d'enfants
Sur une colline ont fait le printemps
Et pendant qu'ils vivaient la plus belle histoire du monde
Les hommes d'ici qui n'ont rien compris
Ont recommencé à s'entre-tuer.
Lyrics:
"Alert ... Alert, unidentified object in the direction of the earth"
"The men knew they were going to be destroyed
And yet they behaved like men
And took refuge in the caves
Against the aliens
They sent the only weapon they had
Thousands and thousands of children in tight rank
Who went on singing softly
They arrived through the clouds
Glittering like a steel sunsets
A red flame at the bottom of the landscape
Who destroyed man and earth
But when the famous Sky Capt'ain
Saw these children's eyes
Rising by the thousands, full of dreams and friendship
He does not know what to do with his weapon
To use or throw it away, his main hesitates still
The small child
From a smile to disarmed the biggest, the strongest
And the terrible Sky Capt'ain
Said, "I can not
Make thousands of innocent children like you! "
And the invaders have joined their planet
Greeting the children who knew the party
But men recommended
To fight on the ground
Men from elsewhere, thousands of children
On a hill did spring
And while they lived the most beautiful story in the world
Men here who have not understood anything
Have recommended to kill each other.
veronique avero avero
Cette chanson n'a jamais quitté mon souvenir. L'être humain est et restera toujours ce qu'il est.
Cette chanson m'est revenue naturellement à l'esprit au début de la crise sanitaire. Crise que les médias nous annonçaient terrifiante alors qu'aujourd'hui encore elle n'a fait que 0,051% de victimes de la population mondiale, il faut le savoir.
Il fallait la considérer comme une fatalité et nous devions être humbles et repentis face à la nature qui se retournait contre nous.
L'avenir nous dira qu'il n'en était rien et que "Non non rien à changé, tout tout a continué" ...
Merci pour la mise en ligne sur Youtube.
Dommage que les paroles ne concordent pas avec le mouvement des lèvres.
Dhrian ARMY
Lyrique:
" Alerte…Alerte, objet non identifié en direction de la terre "
"Les hommes savaient qu'ils allaient être détruits
Et pourtant ils se comportaient comme des hommes
Et se réfugiaient dans les cavernes
Contre les Extra-Terrestres
Ils avaient envoyé la seule arme dont ils disposaient
Des milliers et des milliers d'enfants en rang serré
Qui avançaient en chantant doucement"
Ils sont arrivés à travers les nuages
Scintillants comme une averse de soleil d'acier
Une flamme rouge au fond du paysage
Pour détruire la terre et l'homme qui l'a possédée
Mais quand le fameux Capt'ain Sky
A vu ces yeux d'enfants
Se lever par milliers, pleins de rêves et d'amitié
Il ne sait plus ce qu'il doit faire de son arme
S'en servir ou la jeter, sa main hésite encore
Mais le plus petit des enfants le regarde
D'un sourire a désarmé le plus grand, le plus fort
Et le terrible Capt'ain Sky
Lui dit : "Je ne peux pas
Faire de mal à des milliers d'enfants innocents comme toi !"
Et les envahisseurs ont rejoint leur planète
Saluant les enfants qui leur faisaient la fête
Mais les hommes ont recommencé
À se battre sur la terre
Des hommes d'ailleurs, des milliers d'enfants
Sur une colline ont fait le printemps
Et pendant qu'ils vivaient la plus belle histoire du monde
Les hommes d'ici qui n'ont rien compris
Ont recommencé à s'entre-tuer.
Lyrics:
"Alert ... Alert, unidentified object in the direction of the earth"
"The men knew they were going to be destroyed
And yet they behaved like men
And took refuge in the caves
Against the aliens
They sent the only weapon they had
Thousands and thousands of children in tight rank
Who went on singing softly
They arrived through the clouds
Glittering like a steel sunsets
A red flame at the bottom of the landscape
Who destroyed man and earth
But when the famous Sky Capt'ain
Saw these children's eyes
Rising by the thousands, full of dreams and friendship
He does not know what to do with his weapon
To use or throw it away, his main hesitates still
The small child
From a smile to disarmed the biggest, the strongest
And the terrible Sky Capt'ain
Said, "I can not
Make thousands of innocent children like you! "
And the invaders have joined their planet
Greeting the children who knew the party
But men recommended
To fight on the ground
Men from elsewhere, thousands of children
On a hill did spring
And while they lived the most beautiful story in the world
Men here who have not understood anything
Have recommended to kill each other.
Moises Garrido
Magnífica como siempre💔
Luciana Gardini
Bellissimo brano, troppo poco conosciuto. Dalida, come sempre, una Dea. ❤️🙏❤️💚🌹🌹🌹
Luciana Gardini
Grandiosa, come sempre! 😿
Esprit guerrier Mais au grand cœur
Tellement de parole vrai
Frigger
tää on hyvä kappale Kari!
Luis Zarate
Gracias!!!
Captain Skye
🌍🌈💙
françois ROHAUT
Dommage que le son soit complètement décalé.