Real name: Guylaine Chailler

Effective period / Period of releases: 1954 - 1971

Canadian singer, actress and visual artist.
Born April 6, 1929, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Died March 30, 2024, in Saint-Arnould, France, a small town in Normandy near Trouville-sur-Mer at the age of 94 from Alzheimer's disease.
She made her debut in the 1950s in Montreal cabarets, such as "Au Faisan Doré". In 1953, she had her first experience on Broadway, in New York, as Lilo's understudy in the production of Can-Can, a musical by Cole Porter.
After some time in the U.S., she returned to Montréal in 1955, where she was spotted by Charles Trenet, who took her under his wing and wrote several songs for her, including "Où sont-ils donc?". The singer will perform not only with Trenet, but also with Edith Piaf and Louis Armstrong. The latter crowned her “princess of rhythm” in 1955 during a concert at the Olympia in Paris. At the time, the musician had the habit of consecrating a musical artist on the occasion of the feast of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians, on November 25. After Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith, it is Guylaine Guy who will bestow this honor.
She attempted a return to singing in the 1970s, which ended in failure. She then enrolled at the Académie Frochot, in Paris, to learn painting. She will become the apprentice of the upholsterer Jean Picart Le Doux.