Swiss actress and singer Yvette Théraulaz was born in Lausanne on February 28, 1947. She studied music, then drama at the Lausanne Conservatory and in Paris with Tania Balachova. From 1961 and throughout her career, she acted in numerous plays by great authors (Brecht, Shakespeare, Molière, Racine, Tchekhov, Genet...) and musicals, as well as in several films for cinema and television. In 1977, Yvette Théraulaz created the four-part tour de chant Chansons femmes, which toured and was recorded live three times: Fais Attention (1978), Petit Enfant (1981) and Amour Brisé (1984). Her piano-vocal style, inherited from Barbara, is characterized by a theatrical, sung-spoken style and unvarnished, sometimes crude feminist lyrics. Invited to the Printemps de Bourges festival in 1982 and 1986, the singer created the 1991 show Rien Ne Manque, Sauf Moi-Même, and collaborated with Pascal Auberson on the 1996 live album À Table! Between successive roles and tours of French-speaking countries and Germany, Yvette Théraulaz renews a repertoire created for the stage and transcribed as is on the albums Se Faire Horizon (2001), À Tu et à Toi (2005), Comme un Vertige (2011), Les Années (2013) and the tribute Ma Barbara (2017), alongside the diptych Histoires d'Elles, Vol. 1 & 2 (2008) and Histoires d'Ils (2020).
