By Julia Gerke The Suburban In the one-woman show Piaf - Love Conquers All by Roger Peace, Montrealborn actress Naomi Emmerson sings about the triumphs and trials in renowned French vocalist Édith Piaf?s life. Accompanied by Carmela Sinco on Piano, Emmerson performs 13 original songs from Piaf?s repertoire, including Non, je ne regrette rien, La Vie en Rose and Hymne a L?Amour. ?The words in her songs are always talking about something in her life,? Emmerson said in a telephone interview from her current home in Brooklyn, New York, adding quickly that she doesn?t pretend to be exactly like the small-framed singer with the larger-than-life voice. ?I try to sound like Piaf, but I am not trying to impersonate her like some people do with Elvis. I am trying to get the essence of her voice and the feel of it because obviously she had an unbelievably unique voice and no one could ever match it. It?s my actor?s interpretation of what she was like.? Piaf was born in 1915 in Paris. With her unique voice she overcame poverty to gain international stardom, but her life was never easy: Addicted to morphine and suffering from rheumatism, Piaf medicated herself with drugs and alcohol, yet never lost her passion for men and music. Piaf - Love Conquers All focuses on those aspects of her life but does not provide a biographical timeline. If you have a child who will attend an English school for the first time, enrolment for the 2009-2010 academic year will take place at the English Montreal School Board elementary school nearest you offering the French program of your choice. The English public schools of Quebec: The many faces of success n
