Réjane Magloire

Singer, model and actress who was born on November 28, 1964 in Likasi, Zaïre (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and died of a heart attack in October 2023 in Cambodia.

Réjane Dominique Magloire grew up in New York City, United States. She studied Western classical music with heavy emphasis on opera singing. Her father is Haitian and her mother Polish.

As an actress, Magloire had early exposure on television in commercials and went on to play Samantha, a member of the Short Circus, on the TV series The Electric Company[1] from 1975 to the end of production in 1977 (she replaced Melanie Henderson). PBS stations continued airing reruns of The Electric Company through 1985. She played 12-year old Wilma in the 1977 TV-movie Wilma.

In the early 1980s, Magloire provided vocals for New York-based R&B and post-disco group Indeep. After Indeep broke up, she released a few solo singles as Reggie, and in 1989, a self-titled debut album using this name. She later joined the studio-based Belgian project Technotronic and appeared on its 1991 album Body to Body. In 2005, she released the solo album Forbidden Opera (Virgin Classics/EMI Records), a fusion of opera and contemporary R&B.

She has two sons Sacha and unknown with her husband Mr Niemegeerts.