Matibeye Géneviève (born 2 September 1987) is a Chadian singer. She represented her country at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Matibeye Géneviève was born on 2 September 1987 in Doba, southern Chad and is known to her friends as "Genzy".[1] [2] Her father moved to Cameroon for work and the family followed him there, Géneviève spent her early childhood in that country before her father and the family returned to Chad.[3] Her mother is also a keen singer.[3] The family is very religious and at the age of 12 Géneviève joined her protestant church's junior choir.[2] Within a few years she had graduated to the church's senior choir.[2] Géneviève has a license to work as a laboratory technician but found work singing in the cabarets of N'Djamena where she became known as the Rossignol (nightingale).[1] [3]
Géneviève launched her solo singing career in 2012 and has released several singles in French, Arabic and Ngambay.[3] She is planning to release an album in the near future.[1] Géneviève has sung with fellow Chadian Mounira Mitchala.[2] Géneviève won the world music prizes at the 2015 Darri Awards and at the 2015 NdjamVi Festival.[1] She performed at the 2016 International Women's Day at the Institut Français.[1] Géneviève represented Chad in the singing category at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[4] [5]