Charles Dumont, 1929 – 2024

French singer/songwriter Charles Dumont, who wrote (with lyricist Michel Vaucaire) Edith Piaf’s 1956 hit “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” died on Nov. 18. He was 95. At 15, Dumont led a jazz orchestra, began familiarizing himself with various instruments, and eventually wrote songs not only for Piaf (more than 30 of them), but for Jacques Brel, Dalida, Barbra Streisand, Michel Legrand, and Juliette Gréco. In the 1960s, after Piaf’s death, he began to sing on his own, making several albums and performing in clubs and on tour.