In an inexhaustible noctambule, it has reigned over more than twenty nightclubs around the world. At her lost moments, she sang Gainsbourg or Barbara and occurred on the biggest stages. She died on May 1, at the age of 92 years.
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Régine, businesswoman, singer and actress, the one that Françoise Sagan had baptized “the black queen of our white nights” died Sunday May 1 at the age of 92, announced her granddaughter, Daphné Rotcajg, at the France-Presse agency. “Régine left us peacefully this May 1 at 11 am” in the Paris region, said Rotcajg.
of his real name Régina Zylberberg, Régine was born on December 26, 1929 in Anderlecht in Belgium from Polish Jewish parents. She is 3 years old when her father, an inveterate player, loses in poker the family bakery. The whole family then left Belgium to settle in Paris. After the war, his father opened a coffee, the Light of Belleville. She made her start there by serving customers at the counter. In 1952, she held the bar of a fashionable establishment, whiskey in Gogo, where she tinker with the Jukebox to go from dance music. Françoise Sagan installs her HQ there and decides to give her interviews. In 1956, Régine set out to her own and inaugurated her own nightclub, at Régine, rue du Four, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The success is immediate.
In the early 1960s, she opened the New Jimmy’s in the Montparnasse district and wiggled the all-in-law by broadcasting tubes imported from the United States. It thus contributes to the success of new dances such as twist or cha-cha-cha. Régine welcomes those who are not yet called people but stars, people of letters, actors and other wealthy night owls.
Thus was born the “Queen of the Night”. His empire will extend over twenty-three boxes worldwide. In 1987, Régine delivers to the world her love for this particular moment of the night when “people are more fragile, more open to emotion, to friendship. The business mask is no longer on their figure. ‘Have more to fight to defend what they sell. (…) Loyalty in places is important. My discos to me, it’s a bit like the house where you go back after being pinned The buttocks in a slightly shady place is the return to the home “.
” not a bathroom singer “
In 1992, she took over one of the temples of the Parisian night, the palace. But, following several judicial disentangles linked to drug use, the legendary club closed in 1996. And it was in 2003 that Régine said goodbye to the world of the night by reselling all her establishments, remaining, however his brand.
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