Muere Charles Dumont, composer of ‘Je ne regrette rien’, himno by Edith Piaf and all France

French musician and composer Charles Dumont author of the famous song I don’t regret anything and thirty other songs from Edith Piafdied in the early hours of Sunday to Monday at the age of 95 at his home after a long illness, French media reported.

Born in Cahors, in the south of France, Dumont was a singer, musician and composer who rose to fame in the 1960s with the composition of I don’t regret anything which, played by Edith Piaf, was a global success and became the anthem of resistance of the French Foreign Legion in the Algerian war of independence.

From that moment on, Dumont became a regular collaborator of the French singer, known as La Môme Piaf, and composed other songs for her that also became very popular, such as My God o The lovers some performed together.

He also worked for the American singer Barbra Streisand for whom he composed the music of I’ve been here in 1971.

I don’t regret anything It was part of the soundtrack of ‘Inception’ by Christopher Nolan, ‘The Buffaloes of Durham’ by Ron Shelton or the final scene of Piaf’s biopic ‘La Môme’ (‘Life in Pink’), among other works of culture popular.