Bunny Foy

Shirley Bunnie Foy, also known as Bunny Foy (October 13, 1936 – November 24, 2016), was an American jazz singer, percussionist and songwriter. She was raised in a family of musicians and during her childhood she discovered various kinds of music such as gospel, blues, spirituals and caribbean songs.

Shirley Bunnie Foy was born in Harlem, New York. At the age of 17, she started her career touring the Atlantic coast and Canada with a rhythm and blues group called "The Dell-Tones". The ensemble was formed by Della Griffin, Gloria Lynne, Sonny Til, Slide Hampton and other notable vocalists and musicians.

Foy settled in Paris in 1959, and after an engagement at La Calvados, a jazz club near the Champs-Élysées, she toured with pianist Pierre Franzino (her future husband), in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and North Africa. In 1960 she participated at the first Jazz Festival of Antibes/Juan-les-Pins. In 1965 she performed in New York with Archie Shepp and the following years she collaborated with trumpeter Charlie Shavers, bassist Arvell Shaw, drummer Papa Jo Jones and saxophonist Curtis Porter (Shafi Hadi) on his compositions and arrangements for 16 voices. In 1975, she performed (vocals, maracas, percussions) on the famous Archie Shepp album A Sea of Faces.

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