Very sad news. The doyenne of the nightclub scene, gay icon, "Queen of the Night", inventor of the term "discothèque", one of our Patron Saints - the legendary Régine has traversed the velvet rope and the glitter curtain and departed for Fabulon.
One of those "famous Belgians", she rose from hat-check girl at Paris' famous Whisky à Gogo club in the 1950s, to club hostess, to "disc jockey" (although that term didn't exist at the time), to running her own nightclub empire. At its height in the 1970s, she had Chez Régine clubs in 23 locations across the globe, from Kuala Lumpur to Rio, including top-drawer venues in New York, Paris and London, and attracted all the best names; from royalty to Hollywood to musical divas.
I have featured her many, many times over the years; here and over at my regular blog Give'em the old Razzle Dazzle, but on this sombre occasion I make no excuses for repeating some of her fantabulosa numbers:
She left us with one of the wisest mottos for life: "If you can't dance, you can't make love."
RIP, Régine Zylberberg (born Regina Zylberberg, 26th December 1929 – 1st May 2022)
I thought she was a myth... like a roman goddess. How nice of her. To have lived among us. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteThe world is a little less "gay" without her... Jx
DeleteUne femme extraordinaire
ReplyDeleteElle était magnifique! Jx
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