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My mother and I saw you when you were in Seattle and had the wonderful pleasure of meeting you back stage. The entire evening was an amazing experience - both the honor of meeting you & listening to your music that evening. Your singing is extraordinary. Your voice is captivating, holds on and is totally unforgetable. I think of you and your performance often and can almost hear your voice. I hope you will return to Seattle so I can come to your concert once again. You were so gracious to my mother as she relayed her story to you. She grew up with Edith Piaf's music and shared her love of Piaf's music with me. My mother and family lived in Medness, where my uncle met Marcal Cerdan, who later became Edith Piaf's boyfriend and the love of her life. My uncle and Marcel were best friends for years. In 1949, my mother & I, & Marcel were supposed to be on the same flight, coming to the U.S. My uncle arranged with Marcel to look after us. For some reason we missed the flight but Marcel went ahead. That flight crashed, killing all passengers & crew, including Marcel Cerdan. So that is my small and brief piece of history linking to Edith Piaf. Thank you for giving so many of us an experience of a lifetime and once again being so gracious as to share your time and music with us all.

Sincerely Lily Durbin

Dear Ms. Bitton,

I recently heard your CDs in a music store and was most impressed!  It is such a joy to find the legacy of these songs is continued so valiantly in your work.  You really get to the essence of Piaf without any drive toward imitation, which is terribly admirable.  It was quite a find for me, your CDs!
I'm a young grad student at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.  Most of my work is concentrated on song repertory, and I believe very strongly in the power of this medium and its continuity throughout the centuries.  There is something terribly intimate and honest about the medium of song where there are no costumes, sets, props, characters or narratives behind which to hide.  One must simply present the poetry,  the music and one's self to the audience, and that is why I believe that the successors of Schubert and Schumann are not Alban Berg or Pierre Boulez, but Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel.
I grew up in Luxembourg listening to Brel and Schubert simultaneously, and I always found them to have an awful lot in common.  They both perfectly record and interpret the human condition with sympathy, love and unmistakable beauty.  They are both poets who happen to have an affinity toward music.  I always got to do recitals of Schubert songs, though, and only got to sing Brel in my car with the radio.  The difference is that lots of people sing Schubert, but only Brel sings Brel, and then only on CD.
Once again, I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to find that I am not alone in my desire to see that these songs retain their place in the repertory and that they be treated with the respect and reverence they deserve.  I wish you all the best and hope your career continues on it's marvelous path!  You are a Godsend!

Blessings, 
-Ryan de Ryke

Ron and I were lucky enough to attend your concert last evening at Boston Symphony Hall.  It was an amazing night! We have been fans of Edith Piaf for a long time, so when Ron saw the ad in the Globe for your concert, we got our tickets right away.  We sat in the 6th row. To say that we enjoyed ourselves was an understatement.  I cried and laughed.  I never knew quite how tragic a life Piaf had.  It gives new meaning to the music.
You have a great gift, a wonderful voice and talent.  Thanks to you, many more people will hear of Piaf. Thank you for coming to Boston!

 Best wishes,
-Maureen Ryan

What a wonderful experience, and how I would love to see and hear the show again.  You took me back so many years when I was young and lived in New York.  Edith Piaf was my favorite.  You will always be interwoven with her in my memories.  If you should appear on the East Coast again, please let me know.  I would travel quite a distance to live it all again.  You were superb.

-Jane Bassick

Houston,
March 4,  when the weather is still generous.

Dear Raquel,

Where have you been all my life?  Why don't we know about you?   Is it Houston?  Is it Texas?  Is it the United States?  Is it me? Are your managers focused on San Francisco, or New York only?   What a joy, what a bliss!!!  Not having much to do in the city of Houston,  I went on my usual tour of bookstores, and coffee shops  (not enough).  I discovered you on a shelf at Barnes and Noble!!  Just by looking at your sweet countenance,  I
decided I would try your interpretation of Piaf.   Words are not enough!!!

Your voice, your feeling, your talent, your interpretation of Edith, WOW!! I could go on and on,  I won't.  You alone, and your voice gave me chills!!!! Dear Raquel,  my being would go in trance, if I happened to be sitting by Edith's grave listening to you.  I have sat by her grave when Paris is about to go into darkness, when a cemetery guard came to me and said, "Monsieur!!"
Pere LaChaise is one of my favorite places in Paris, I can feel the energy of all the artists who rest in this precious space on earth.  I don't know
if my being born in Mexico brings me closer to the deep romance permeated in the French language, my French is very poor, but believe me it is good
enough to feel it and comprehend more than melody and lyrics.  I can also see and feel the metaphor, both in your voice and in the songs you
tastefully sing.   Please include me in your list of events, news and everything related with your art.  I don't want to finish my life without the experience of listening to you.   Let your managers know that we don't have enough information about you.  How about being interviewed by Charlie
Rose, how about the A&E t.v. station?  By the way, the Barnes and Noble store in Houston, was out of your CD.  I had to go to another branch to get it.  Would you ever consider coming to Houston?

Take care of yourself, and your perfect voice!!!  I can't ask you to reply to my email, but I do hope your assistants will email me your scheduled
events.   Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth) said, "If you follow your bliss, life will set up paths for you to enrich your life"  Listening to you now, is my bliss.
  al.   (kiyoshi)

Congratulations, Mme. Bitton, on bringing the music and spirit of Edith Piaf to Seattle last night. A relatively new passion of mine, I have devoured the
music and media regarding Piaf, and was delighted to be one of the attendees of last evening's event. Your passion for the music, the way the phrases
flow, and the intense emotionalism were astounding - and, frankly, during a particularly magical moment in "Mon Dieu," one could almost imagine Piaf looking down from the ethers of this magnificent hall to smile a sly grin in honor of such beautiful music and magnificent interpretation.  I feel fortunate to carry the memory of this concert, merci beaucoup!
Kelvin Richardson


     Thank you for a wonderful performance!

My husband and I attended your show at Benaroya Hall (Seattle) last night.  The show was magnificent! We felt you brought Edith Piaf to life, right before our eyes.
Thank you,Elinor Appel & Michael Rockhold


Dear Ms. Bitton:
Your performance tonight in Seattle was an experience of a lifetime.  I remember when I first discovered Piaf in the mid 1980s, thinking,
darn, why couldn't I have been born earlier? You've captured (and improved upon) the essence so well  that I no longer feel cheated.
Thank you for a fantastic evening, and best wishes.
Regards
Greg Metzger

Mlle Bitton:
Your concert Saturday evening at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia was superb. You transported me back to an era of yesteryear. While I lived in Paris many years after Piaf departed she was always present on the radio and in the press. After your concert I mentioned to a friend if St. Ex and Piaf ever met? 
I did not know you were from Morocco. It is one of the more interesting countries of the world. Even more so knowing it produced a talent like you. Thank you again for a wonderful evening along with days of thoughts about the life and times and songs of Edith Piaf. Perhaps I'll arrange to see this concert again - it would be a pleasure.
Merci mille fois,
Charles W. Alton,