Monique Leyrac

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Monique Leyrac
Born	(1928-02-26) 26 February 1928 Montreal, Quebec
Occupation	singer and actress
Awards	Order of Canada National Order of Quebec

Monique Leyrac, OC CQ (born 26 February 1928) is a Canadian singer and actress from Quebec.

Born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec 1928,^[1] 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.

In 1965 she won the Sopot International Song Festival.

References

↑ "Do You Share a Birthday with a Famous Canadian Woman - February". Famouscanadianwomen.com. Retrieved 2012-01-07.

External links

Monique Leyrac at The Canadian Encyclopedia
Monique Leyrac at the Internet Movie Database

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Persondata
Name	Leyrac, Monique
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian actor and singer
Date of birth	26 February 1928
Place of birth	Montreal, Quebec
Date of death
Place of death

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