Biography:

Françoise Guimbert is a Reunion singer from Maloya born on June 7 , 1945in Saint-Benoît (Reunion) and died on March 25 , 2022in the same city ¹ .

Born June 7 , 1945in Saint-Benoît in a poor environment, Françoise Guimbert was brought up by her older sister who took care of the siblings of seven children, when their parents died early. She is the fifth. She left school in CM1 to take care of her nephews and nieces, then became a domestic worker at the age of 12 ¹ with several families successively, in Saint-Benoît, in Saint-Denis, then again in Saint-Benoît, when she entered the service of a music and piano teacher for 18 years until 1986 when she died. It is by listening to music theory lessons given by her boss to other children that she acquires the rudiments ². The old lady also encouraged her to write, so she composed her first songs.

She died on March 25, 2022 ³ .

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