Matibeye Géneviève was born on 2 September 1987 in Doba, southern Chad and is known to her friends as "Genzy". 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. Her mother is also a keen singer. The family is very religious and at the age of 12 Géneviève joined her protestant church's junior choir. Within a few years she had graduated to the church's senior choir. 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).
