Born on September 11: E.G. Daily, singer but above all actress

She was born in 1961 in Los Angeles as Elizabeth Ann Guttman.

A versatile artist, E.G. Daily has built her career spanning music, television, and film. She is distinguished by a powerful and tangy vocal timbre that places her in the footsteps of Cindi Lauper.

In 1985, she signed a contract with A&M Records and immediately garnered her first accolades with the album "Wild Child." Her single "Say It, Say It" (with its numerous dance floor remixes) even reached number one on the specialised "club" chart (based on music played in clubs by DJs, a good indication of the style used!). This was the time when Madonna was taking the world by storm with "Into The Groove," and one can't help but feel a kind of kinship between the two artists, a connection confirmed by the fact that they shared the same producer, John "Jellybean" Benitez.

Some of her songs, such as "Shake It Up" and "I'm Hot Tonight," also featured on the soundtrack of "Scarface," Brian De Palma's 1983 film, marking her first foray into music. She would repeat the experience several times, notably for "Thiel of Hearts" and "The Breakfast Club." As a young adult, she began her career in front of the camera with a role as an extra in "Jukebox." 1978. While she has only ever recorded four albums, the last "Changing Faces" on her own label in 2008, she has a truly incalculable number of often minor appearances on the big screen (notably "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" in 1985 or "Valley Girl" in 1983) and in often second-rate TV series. She also lent her face to several video games and sometimes just her voice, notably in the original version of the film "The Flintstones" or in "Babe: Pig In The City"! Her name may not mean much to you, but you have undoubtedly heard her voice or crossed her gaze at one time or another...

(MH with Stéphane Soupart - Photo : © Etienne Tordoir)

Photo: Portrait of E.G. Daily at the Astoria Hotel in Brussels (Belgium) in June 1986