Biography of Edith Lefel

Edith Lefel (November 1963, Cayenne - 20 January 2003, Dreux) was a French singer born in French Guyana. Edith Lefel was born in Guyana and grew up in Martinique; she has become a popular zouk-love singer. Her career began to take off in 1984, when she worked with Jean-Michel Cabrimol's group Maffia. In 1987, Lefel began working with the well-established Martinican band Malavoi. Also a frequent background vocalist recording with the famed French Creole band Kassav' in Paris in the 1980s, Edith Lefel also gave birth to twins by the well-known French Creole artist/producer Ronald Rubinel. Her most recent album, released in 2002, includes elements of Haitian Kompa, French Caribbean beguine, and mazurka and Dominican merengue. Tragically at only age 39, she died in her sleep in January, 2003. Autopsy results revealed a combination of smoking and birth control pills as the cause of her death. Lefel is memorialized in a famous Parisian cemetery alongside the remains of several other well-known artists.