17 Facts About Patsy Gallant

Patsy Gallant was one of the 10 children of Beatrice Aube Gallant and Arthur Gallant.

At eight Patsy Gallant gained television exposure after her parents moved to Moncton; two years later the group was playing nightclubs in Montreal.

Patsy Gallant left the group for a solo career in 1967, was featured in commercials, and was a regular on both the French-language TV variety program Discotheque and its English equivalent, Music Hop.

Patsy Gallant released her first single in 1967, which earned her appearances on a number of television variety shows.

In 1971, Patsy Gallant co-starred on the weekly television variety show Smash presented by Television de Radio-Canada.

Patsy Gallant aimed for the Francophone market of Quebec and Europe as well as English Canada and the United States.

Patsy Gallant followed up in 1977 with her French album Besoin d'amour, which includes a French rendition of "Sugar Daddy".

Patsy Gallant released the English album Will You Give Me Your Love in 1977, which featured songs like "Every Step of the Way" and "Back to the City".

Patsy Gallant then released a bilingual greatest hits package in early 1979, which included a rendition of the original "Mon Pays".

The couple split in 1977 and Patsy Gallant started dating Dwayne Ford, a Canadian musician who emerged as a member of Bearfoot and was playing keyboards in her accompanying band Star, as well as collaborating on her recordings.

Patsy Gallant returned in the late 1980s, performing gigs and taking roles in musical theatre.

Patsy Gallant has appeared in productions of Cats, Nunsense, a stage biography of Edith Piaf, and played the role of Stella Spotlight in the French hit musical Starmania, in Paris, France, which ran for eight years in the 1990s.

Patsy Gallant had a brief stint as Palma the stepmother in Cindy, a musical based on Cinderella, written by Plamondon.

Patsy Gallant has more recently recorded a duet with the French rap group, Treizieme Etage, called "Faut pas lacher".

In 2022,38 years after releasing her previous album with original material, Patsy Gallant released the album "To Exist and Be Heard", with songs that she had been writing and developing for more than 10 years.

In 1973, Patsy Gallant had a minor role in the Denis Heroux film Enuff Is Enuff as an anglophone Canadian girl who tried to seduce Jean Lefebvre's character in a campsite.

In 2002, Patsy Gallant had a supporting role in the feature film Yellowknife, in which she played a nightclub singer.