Known as 'Lily Panam', she began her career in cafes and on street corners where singers were the walking jukeboxes of pre-war Paris. FMTNews FMTLifestyle
Lily Lian was regarded as the last exponent of a 300-year-old trade, where singers sold lyrics and sheet music for their songs on the street.
A friend of the crooner Maurice Chevalier and of actor and singer Yves Montand, she was regarded as the last exponent of a 300-year-old trade, where singers sold lyrics and sheet music for their songs on the street. But with the spread of radios and record players, street singers found it hard to compete, and Lian never quite made the transition into the indoor entertainment industry despite her good looks.
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