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Lys GAUTY

Alice Gauthier, real name Lys Gauty, was born in Levallois-Perret on February 14, 1900. Born into a modest family, she learned to sew and type, then worked as a hat saleswoman at Galeries Lafayette in Paris and for a milliner. Noticed for her beautiful voice as a child, she took lyric singing lessons and began her career in 1924 at the Chez Fryscher cabaret, accompanied by pianist Georges Van Parys, before moving on to the Olympia the following year. Married to her impresario Gaston Groëner, owner of the Théâtre de Dix-Heures in Brussels, she recorded her first sides in 1928 for ...