Monique Leyrac, OC CQ (26 February 1928–15 December 2019) was a Canadian singer and actress from Quebec. Born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec 1928, she was the first great international star from French Canada. Using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943. In 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of Song in Sopot, Poland and at the Festival de la Chanson at Ostende, Belgium. In the 1980s she began to write and stage one-wom...
Monique Leyrac, OC CQ (26 February 1928–15 December 2019) was a Canadian singer and actress from Quebec.
Born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec 1928, she was the first great international star from French Canada. Using her natural gifts of music and drama she started her acting career on radio in 1943. In 1965 she won the grand prizes at the international festival of Song in Sopot, Poland and at the Festival de la Chanson at Ostende, Belgium. In the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows where she sang and acted. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 and received the 1979 Prix de musique Calixa-Lavallée. She helped introduce the music of Gilles Vigneault and Claude Léveillée to English-speaking Canada. In 1998, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
