Adrienne D'Ennerie DeJoie

(1932- )
Born in Port-au-Prince

 

Adrienne D'Ennerie DeJoie was born in Petionville, Haiti in 1932. She started her early teens as an actress and singer, an occupation considered very daring for a young woman in those times. It was she who sang the original Petit Oiseau to the gentleman who later introduced it into the United States in the mid 1950's as Yellow Bird.

In 1956 she met and came to New York City to marry Dr. Saul Gurevitz, a psychoanalyst who also sculpted and painted. They eventually moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts and had two daughters, Tamara and Sonia, who have both grown up to develop their own artistic talents.

It was during this period that Adrienne began to experiment with painting in oils or acrylics on canvas and with pastels on paper. Her art reflects images from her life in Haiti and from her dreams, as well as her experiences here in the United States. She now resides in Tucson, Arizona, where the winters are much kinder than in New England, and the deserts of the Southwest provide her with new colors to add to her palette.

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