French actress and singer born on January 4, 1928 in the first arrondissement of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône (France), Ginette Garcin left her mark on the seventh art through her roles in films such as Tout le Monde il est Beau, Tout le Monde il est Gentil (1972), Dupont Lajoie (1975), Les Uns et les Autres (1981) and Édith et Marcel (1983). But it was on the musical front that her career aspirations first crystallized, especially when, as a teenager, she sang at various regional festivals. A singer in Jacques Hélian's orchestra, where she formed a duet with Jean Marco until 1951, she went on to work with Loulou Gasté, and in the mid-1960s became one of Boby Lapointe and Jean Yanne's first performers, both on record and in cabaret. In the early 1970s, she launched a parallel career in film and television (notably in the Marc et Sophie series), followed by theater. Diagnosed with colon cancer, Ginette Garcin died in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) on June 10, 2010 at the age of 82, as a result of her illness. Her best-known songs include "La Chanson de Craonne " or "Maître Pierre " in 1949, "Jésus Tango" in 1971, "Par ici la monnaie" in 1974 and "La Moitié de la France " in 1975. Back in 2008, the compilation Heritage - Florilege - Vega / Bel Air / Riviera (1957 - 1966) highlighted the most prolific period of her singing career, with titles such as "Les Pescadous", "Cane, Cane, Canebière", "Quand on est amoureux" and "L'absinthe".
