Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour was a French and Armenian singer-songwriter, actor and diplomat known for a distinctive vibrato tenor voice, clear in its upper reaches and gravelly in its low notes. Over a career spanning more than seventy years he recorded more than twelve hundred songs in multiple languages and wrote or co-wrote more than a thousand songs for himself and other performers, work that made him one of the most celebrated songwriters in twentieth-century popular music. He also appeared as an actor in more than sixty films.