They consisted of Elisabeth Alexandrine Louise Ferrand, stage name "Minette" (11 July 1767 in Port-au-Prince – 2 January 1807 in New Orleans) and Lise (born 1771).
The artistic talents of the sisters were discovered by Madame Acquaire, an influential actress and opera singer of the Comédie de Port-au-Prince.
During the 1780s, she became one of the most popular operatic artists in Saint-Domingue and the prima donna of Port-au-Prince, as Jeanne-Marie Marsan had the same position at the Comédie du Cap in Cap-Francais.
Among the Minette et Lise's roles were Sylvain, Zémire et Azor, Aucassin et Nicolette, L'Amant jaloux and La caravane du Caire.
Minette et Lise are the subject of Marie Chauvet's novel La Danse sur le Volcan (Paris: Plon, 1957; Paris / Léchelle: Maisonneuve & Larose / Emina Soleil, 2004 (reprint with a preface by Catherine Hermary-Vieille); Léchelle: Zellige, 2008, 2009)[3] Translated into English by Salvator Attanasio as Dance on the Volcano (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1959)