Edith Piaf's star continued to rise, and by World War II she was one of the most popular performers in France. She sparked controversy by performing for German soldiers, but history says that in actuality, Piaf was working for the French Resistance helping Jewish people escape and evade the Nazis. When the war was over, it was safer for her to travel and for her career to take off overseas, and so in the 1950s, she toured Europe and also the United States. She eventually became popular enough in American to earn multiple coveted appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show (via Biography).
Sadly, while she continued to record and perform throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, she was plagued by health issues, and passed away at the early age of 47 from kidney failure in 1963. And while her career ended with her untimely passing, she still has fans across the globe and has inspired many other works of art in music and film. A book by Carolyn Burke called No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf was published in 2011. And of course, her song "Non, je ne regrette rien" provided the fitting soundtrack for Allstate's Super Bowl ad in 2021.
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