This was announced by her granddaughter Daphné Rotcajg. Régine’s first Parisian club in the 1950s was so technologically revolutionary that she claimed to have invented the first nightclub.
Régina Zylberberg was born on December 26, 1929 in Anderlecht, Belgium, to Polish-Jewish parents. When her father opened a nightclub in Paris after the liberation, she discovered nightlife for herself.
Over the years, the “Queen of the Night” built an entire empire with 22 discos, including the legendary “Chez Régine” and later the “Palace” in Paris and “Regine’s” in New York. Among their guests were Andy Warhol, Liza Minelli, the Rothschilds and the Kennedys.
In her home country, Régine was best known as a singer who inspired a whole generation of singer-songwriters such as Serge Gainsbourg and Barbara. She performed at the Olympia in Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York – and at the age of 86 at the variety theater Folies-Bergère.
At that time, she gradually had to sell her empire and also had to accept a series of private strokes of fate. Maybe that’s why she sang the French cover version of Gloria Gaynor’s hit “I Will Survive” with such fervour.
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