Real name Marcelle Trillet, singer Anny Gould was born in Paris on January 8,
1920, and spent her childhood in Roubaix. A schoolteacher, she practiced her
profession in Dijon during the Second World War and took part in the Resistance.
During the festivities surrounding the Liberation, she went to a concert by an
American jazz band looking for a singer to fill in for a defection. The young
woman, with her passion for song, offered to take her place, and her success
prompted her to embark on a new career. After meeting pianist, composer and
conductor Morton Gould in Paris, she fou...