Chantal Goya

Chantal Goya
Goya in 2009
Goya in 2009
Background information
Birth nameChantal de Guerre
Born (1942-06-10) 10 June 1942 (age 82)
Saigon, French Indochina (present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)[1]
OriginFrance
Occupation(s)Singer, actress
Years active1963–present
Website[1]

Chantal de Guerre (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃tal ɡɛʁ]; born 10 June 1942), known as Chantal Goya ([ɡɔja]), is a French singer and actress.

Goya started her career as a yé-yé singer, singing a mid-1960s hybrid of girl-group pop and French chanson. She also enjoyed a career as a French New Wave actress; she had a starring role as Madeleine in the 1966 Jean-Luc Godard film Masculin, féminin and in Jean-Daniel Pollet's L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste [fr] (Love is joy, love is sad).

Since 1975, she has become mostly known as a singer for children. Together with her husband, songwriter and composer Jean-Jacques Debout, and with a team of designers and costume people, she does shows for and with children. The main themes are dreams and traveling. Her usual character is called Marie-Rose.

  1. ^ a b Official website. Retrieved 23 March 2015.