Germaine Dugas (born 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and television host. She was one of the first women to record her own songs in Quebec.
Germaine Dugas was born in 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
She won fourth prize in the 1958 Concours de la chanson canadienne for "Viens avec moi et tu verras", a military march that was performed by the Collégiens Troubadours. The song was very popular with students. Around that time, her song "Mes cousins" was successful. She was one of the first women to record her own songs in Quebec.
In 1959, "Deux enfants du même âge" won the Grand Prize of Canadian disc of CKACâ a first for a woman and for a singer-songwriter. It reached the top of the charts in Quebec, a rare feat for a singer-songwriter. Having become popular, she gave shows across Quebec and in Paris, at Chez Patachou.
In 1961, her first album Germaine Dugas won the originality prize at the Grand Prize of the Canadian disc of CKAC. From 1959 to 1963, she hosted the children's show Coucou with Raymond Lévesque. In 1962, she represented French Canadian music in a Belgian television show with Félix Leclerc.
In spring 1965, Dugas suggested that the Service des parcs create a boîte àchansons at the Théâtre de Verdure at the La Fontaine Park. The boîte àchansons Sous les étoiles was then created in the summer of the same year. Dugas performed in the boîte àchansons and was responsible for the boîte's musical programming.
Dugas stopped making discs after her second album, Germaine Dugas: oranges, citrons, limons, failed to achieve the expected success. She hosted the TV shows Cousin, Cousine in 1967 and Soleil et jour de pluie in 1969. She continued performing on stage until 1972.
She attempted a comeback on disc in 1983, but failed. She was a part of the Choeur des artistes in 1985, composed "Nous vivrons ensemble" for Danielle Oddera and Roberto Medile in 1989 and gave a few shows in the early 1990s. Les ÃÂditions Trois published a songbook of her songs in 1991.
In 2010 "Deux enfants du même âge" was inducted in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.