French pop icon Chantal Goya was born Chantal Deguerre in Saigon on October 10, 1946. Raised in Paris from the age of four onward, as a teen she befriended songwriter Jean-Jacques Debout, and at his recommendation auditioned for RCA Records in 1964. With her debut single, C'est Bien Bernard, Goya emerged as a superstar of yé-yé pop, continuing her hit streak with a series of Debout-penned smashes including A la Sortie de Ma Classe, D'abord Dis-Moi Ton Nom, and Comment le Revoir. In 1966 Goya was cast as an up-and-coming pop sensation in filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's #Masculin Feminin. During shooting, she became pregnant with Debout's child, and the couple wed soon after. Her singing career waned as the popularity of yé-yé diminished, and after 1967's La Flamme et le Feu Goya disappeared from the French charts. During the 1970s, she reinvented herself as a children's singer, releasing a series of LPs that proved wildly popular with the under-five set; in 2001, she made an unexpected return to the French Top 40 with Becassine Is My Cousine, also a major club hit. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi