CHANTAL GALIA. Singer Chantal Gallia, known for having imitated dozens of voices, died of a stroke on Sunday July 10 at the age of 65.
[Updated July 13, 2022 at 2:50 p.m.] Singer and imitator with 120 voices, Chantal Gallia died on Sunday July 10 at the age of 65. The announcement of his disappearance was made by his family in a press release, issued the day of his 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,” her family wrote in a statement released by the family. AFP on Sunday July 10.
Particularly famous from the early 1970s to the end of the 1990s, Chantal Gallia retired from the media sphere in the 1990s, after having a daughter, to “raise her children”, writes Jean-François Guyot on Twitter, journalist at AFP. Since then, the comedian had stayed away from the spotlight. At the announcement of his death, several personalities salute the memory of Chantal Gallia.
“Chantal Gallia is gone. We did shows together 30 years ago. She had character and did not spare the young man that I was in this extract but she had heart and talent. Very sad news”, writes for example the host Olivier Minne on Twitter. “The inimitable Chantal Gallia has joined the stars… partner of the Academy of Nine… we shared her laughter and her talent”, adds Jean-Pierre Foucault.
Impersonator Chantal Gallia has died aged just 65. In a press release issued by AFP, his family announces that the comedian with 120 voices succumbed to a stroke and evokes in this same document a “brutal death”. “We have the great sadness to announce this Sunday July 10 the brutal death of Chantal Halimi, known as Chantal Gaillia, which occurred today following a stroke”, can we read in the document, which retraces the career of the ‘humorist.
Born in 1956 in Constantine, Algeria, Chantal Halimi became known in the late 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 participated “in the tours of Joe Dassin, Claude 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 Michael of the Renaissance”.
Made popular by her numerous imitations of famous women such as Véronique Dicaire, Liane Foly, Muriel Robin, Patricia Kaas, Sylvie Vartan or France Gall, Chantal Gallia also has several songs in her name, such as Disco Cloche, Pas d’mari pour Mimi or even The memory that sings. She has also hosted several chronicles, on Antenne 2 or Europe 1.
