Chantal Goya
Chantal Goya
Biography
Chantal de Guerre (born 10 June 1942), known as Chantal Goya, 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 (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. Chantal was born in French Indochina in 1942 to French parents. During the Indochina war she moved to France with her family in 1954 and lived in the Vosges mountains, and at the beginning of the 1960s, she moved to Paris with her family. She met singer/composer Jean Jacques Debout when she was 18. The couple remain married. After having received her baccalaureat, Chantal started studying journalism in England. During this period in Paris, one of her friends took her to the reception of Eddie Barclay's wedding. Jean-Jacques Debout was one of the artists invited to this reception. At that time, he had been recording 45 rpm records since 1957, and had received some success, like "Les boutons dorés" (The golden buttons). He was a friend of the ye-ye girl Sylvie Vartan for whom he wrote and composed the hit "Tous mes copains" (All my friends). In 1963, Vartan was in a relationship with the ye-ye and rock-n-roll singer Johnny Hallyday and she would marry him in 1965. Debout, who was in love with Vartan, remained single in his personal life. At this reception, he saw Chantal who was sitting at the back of the living room, and he fell in love at first sight with her. He went to tell her that she would be famous by the age of 30, have two children, and singing at the Opera. Chantal didn't believe him and went to London to finish her studies. Upon her return in France, Debout was waiting for her at the station and sang to her a song he had written and composed when she was in England, called "Nos doigts se sont croisés" (Our fingers had been crossed), and Chantal fell in love with him. With this song, Debout participated in and won the Festival de la Rose d'Or d'Antibes (Music Festival of Antibes's golden rose). In 1964, Chantal first became a model for fashion photographers in the teenage girls' magazine "Mademoiselle Âge Tendre" (Little Miss Tender Age). That year, Debout decided to rename her Chantal Goya because he thought that she looked like a little boy painted by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Daniel Filipacchi was the owner of the magazine and also the record producer of the French division of RCA Records. He suggested that Debout write and compose songs in return for a record contract for her. The first 45 EP record of Chantal Goya released at the end of 1964 and it includes the song "C'est bien Bernard" (It's Bernard himself) which became her first hit success. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Chantal Goya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
58
Gender
Female
Birthday
1942-06-10 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Saigon, Vietnam
Acting

2022

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)

2019

Mask Singer as Popcorn

2016

Amanda as Self

2014

La Planète merveilleuse as Marie-Rose

2011

Les orages de la vie as Not available

2001

Absolutely Fabulous as Chantal Goya

2001

Chanter la vie as Self

1998

Vivement dimanche as Self

1998

Le grenier aux trésors as Marie-Rose

1995

Le soulier qui vole as Marie-Rose

1987

Sacrée Soirée as Self

1987

Matin Bonheur as Self

1987

Collaricocoshow as Self

1984

La Planète merveilleuse as Marie-Rose

1983

La Poupée de Sucre as Marie Rose

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self

1979

Carlos Numéro 1 as Self

1979

Le temps des vacances as Chantal Goya

1977

Fan School as Self

1976

30 millions d'amis as Self

1975

Midi Première as Self

1975

Numéro un as Self

1975

Numéro un as Self - Host

1975

Numéro un as Self (archive footage)

1975

Trop c'est trop as Carole

1974

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang as Marie-Hélène Rondin

1972

Midi trente as Self

1971

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad as Arlette

1969

Secret World as Monique

1969

Tout peut arriver as Chantal, Air France investigator

1968

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O as Cécile Chauffier-Mignot

1966

Masculin Féminin as Madeleine Zimmer

1965

Dim Dam Dom as Marie

1965

Dim Dam Dom as Self

1963

Charade as (uncredited)