Monique Leyrac, OC CQ (26 February 1928 – 15 December 2019) was a Canadian singer and actress [1] who popularized many songs by French-Canadian composers.
[3] In 1965 she won the grand prize at the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland for her rendition of Gilles Vigneault's "Mon Pays".
[6] Leyrac was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967 and was the subject of an hour-long documentary on CBC television in 1972.
She recorded ten albums of music,[6] and in the 1980s she began to write and stage one-woman shows in which she sang and acted.
[9] In 2007 a boxed set, Leyrac/La diva des années 60, was released, containing three albums of her performed songs, many by Quebec composers, as well as a DVD with a short documentary of her life and career.