Interviewed by TV Star, published on February 14, Orlando returned to one of the love stories of his sister Dalida. The singer notably had Alain Delon as a lover. An idyll of which his brother was not aware.
On February 25, the program will be broadcast Come on, I’ll take you on France 3, highlighting the greatest duos in the history of music. Among them is obviously the one formed by Dalida and Alain Delon. “Words and words and words and words / And more words that you sow in the wind”, they sang together. Behind this wildly successful collaboration hides a secret: love story between the two stars. On the occasion of the broadcast of the program, the brother of the late artist was questioned by TV Starpublished on February 14. Orlando notably confided that he did not know what was going on between them at the time.
As Dalida’s brother recalls, they had both met in Paris, at their beginnings in the mid-1950s. It wasn’t until their paths crossed again in Rome in 1963. “that there was a story between them”. At that time, Orlando was unaware of their romance and only found out about it ten years later. “I only learned of it when the disc was recorded. It took place in November 1972”explains the producer of the singer who had his little secrets.
Dalida and her romance with Alain Delon
It was in 1954 that the two icons met. At the time, Dalida’s career had not yet started. She had thus decided to stay in a small hotel in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. In the same place resided the one who became her friend and would become her lover: Alain Delon. Their paths separated but they ended up finding each other a few years later. “Dali began his career, then I mine, faster than her. Then we met in the 1960s in Rome. We loved each other in Rome. (…) Then a few years later we met in Paris. We were very close friends. I often went to her house in Montmartre”told the 86-year-old actor in the pages of Paris Match in 2006.
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