Rising to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, she built an international nightlife empire with her chain of régine’s clubs, which became synonymous with celebrity culture, luxury, and the emerging jet set. Régine was a pop chanteuse, sometime screen actor, nightlife impresario, and tireless entrepreneur. And that doesn’t even scratch the surface.

As a girl in germany, hid out from the nazis in a catholic convent, she was a famous nightclub owner in paris for many years. The seven-per-cent solution. Régine was born on 26 … She was known as “the queen of the night” who invented the first discotheque and taught nobles how to dance. She was known simply as regine and she passed away this week at the age of 92.

She was known simply as regine and she passed away this week at the age of 92.