CHANTAL GALIA. Singer and comedian, Chantal Gallia, who died on Sunday July 10, 2022, at the age of 65, had known success from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s.
Singer and comedian, Chantal Gallia died on Sunday July 10 at the age of 65. In a press release issued by AFP, her family announces that the imitator died of a stroke and evokes a “brutal death”. “For nearly 20 years, she has forged a very strong bond with her audience, who have appreciated her talent as an imitator and singer, and have followed her in her artistic career,” write her relatives in the same document.
Particularly famous in the 1970s and 1980s, Chantal Gallia, an imitator, had more than 100 voices in her repertoire. She had retired from the media sphere in the 1990s, after having a daughter, to “raise her children”, wrote AFP journalist Jean-François Guyot on Twitter. Since then, the comedian had stayed away from the spotlight.
Born in 1956 in Constantine, Algeria, Chantal Halimi made a name for herself at the end of the 1970s, thanks to her talents as an imitator. Under the pseudonym of Chantal Gallia, she could imitate “nearly 120 voices of men and women, from the world of song, politics, cinema and the media”, underlines her family. Very quickly, she made a name for herself and took part “in the tours of Joe DassinClaude François, Dalida, Pierret Bachelet, Hervé Vilard, Linda de Souza at the Olympia in 1984, before producing her own show in 1992-1993 at the Théâtre Michel de la Renaissance”. Chantal Gallai also has several songs in her name, as disco bell, No husband for Mimi or The memory that sings and hosted chronicles on Antenne 2 or Europe 1.